Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Animals » Clean and unclean
He saw heaven open and a vessel coming down, like a huge sheet lowered by the four corners to the earth, which contained all quadrupeds and creeping things of the earth and wild birds. A voice came to him, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat." read more.
But Peter said, "No, no, my Lord; I have never eaten anything common or unclean." A second time the voice came back to him, "What God has cleansed, you must not regard as common."
But Peter said, "No, no, my Lord; I have never eaten anything common or unclean." A second time the voice came back to him, "What God has cleansed, you must not regard as common."
Anything God has created is good, and nothing is to be tabooed ??provided it is eaten with thanksgiving, for then it is consecrated by the prayer said over it.
Apostasy » Shall abound in the latter days
And in most of you love will grow cold by the increase of iniquity;
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Let nobody delude you into this belief, whatever he may say. It will not come till the Rebellion takes place first of all, with the revealing of the Lawless One, the doomed One,
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But in later days, the Spirit distinctly declares, certain people will rebel against the faith; they will listen to spirits of error and to the doctrines that daemons teach through plausible sophists who are seared in conscience ??3 men who prohibit marriage and insist on abstinence from foods which God created for believing men, who understand the Truth, to partake of with thanksgiving.
Apostates » Shall abound in the latter days
And in most of you love will grow cold by the increase of iniquity;
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Let nobody delude you into this belief, whatever he may say. It will not come till the Rebellion takes place first of all, with the revealing of the Lawless One, the doomed One,
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But in later days, the Spirit distinctly declares, certain people will rebel against the faith; they will listen to spirits of error and to the doctrines that daemons teach through plausible sophists who are seared in conscience ??3 men who prohibit marriage and insist on abstinence from foods which God created for believing men, who understand the Truth, to partake of with thanksgiving.
Asceticism » Exemplified in celibacy
The disciples said to him, "If that is a man's position with his wife, there is no good in marrying."
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To the unmarried and to widows I would say this: it is an excellent thing if like me they remain as they are.
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Are you tied to a wife? Never try to untie the knot. Are you free? Never try to get married.
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They have not been defiled by intercourse with women ??they are celibates; they follow the Lamb wherever he goes; they have been ransomed from among men, as the first to be reaped for God and the Lamb.
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Asceticism » Extreme application of » Rebuked by paul
As you died with Christ to the Elemental spirits of the world, why live as if you still belonged to the world? Why submit to rules and regulations like "Hands off this!" "Taste not that!" "Touch not this!" ??22 referring to things that perish by being used? These rules are determined by human precepts and tenets; they get the name of 'wisdom' with their self-imposed devotions, with their fasting, with their rigorous discipline of the body, but they are of no value, they simply pamper the flesh!
But in later days, the Spirit distinctly declares, certain people will rebel against the faith; they will listen to spirits of error and to the doctrines that daemons teach through plausible sophists who are seared in conscience ??3 men who prohibit marriage and insist on abstinence from foods which God created for believing men, who understand the Truth, to partake of with thanksgiving. Anything God has created is good, and nothing is to be tabooed ??provided it is eaten with thanksgiving,
The training of the body is of small service, but religion is of service in all directions; it contains the promise of life both for the present and for the future.
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Food » From God
the right course is to abstain from flesh or wine or indeed anything that your brother feels to be a stumbling-block.
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Look at the wild birds; they sow not, they reap not, they gather nothing in granaries, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth more than birds?
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Anything God has created is good, and nothing is to be tabooed ??provided it is eaten with thanksgiving, for then it is consecrated by the prayer said over it.
give us to-day our bread for the morrow,
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I know, I am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is in itself unclean; only, anything is unclean for a man who considers it unclean.
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Sanctification » What is sanctified
But in later days, the Spirit distinctly declares, certain people will rebel against the faith; they will listen to spirits of error and to the doctrines that daemons teach through plausible sophists who are seared in conscience ??3 men who prohibit marriage and insist on abstinence from foods which God created for believing men, who understand the Truth, to partake of with thanksgiving. Anything God has created is good, and nothing is to be tabooed ??provided it is eaten with thanksgiving, read more.
for then it is consecrated by the prayer said over it.
for then it is consecrated by the prayer said over it.
Thankfulness » Should be offered » For the supply of our bodily needs
the man who values a particular day does so to the Lord. The eater eats to the Lord, since he thanks God for his food; the non-eater abstains to the Lord, and he too thanks God. For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself;
Anything God has created is good, and nothing is to be tabooed ??provided it is eaten with thanksgiving,
Thanksgiving » Should be offered » For the supply of our bodily wants
the man who values a particular day does so to the Lord. The eater eats to the Lord, since he thanks God for his food; the non-eater abstains to the Lord, and he too thanks God. For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself;
Anything God has created is good, and nothing is to be tabooed ??provided it is eaten with thanksgiving,
Truth » Should be believed
so that all may be doomed who refuse faith in the Truth but delight in evil. Now we are bound always to thank God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you as the first to be reaped for salvation, by the consecration of your spirit and by faith in the Truth;