Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Animals » Clean and unclean
And saw that the heavens were open, and that something like a great sail was descending, let down by its four corners towards the earth. In it were all kinds of quadrupeds, reptiles, and birds. Then he was aware of a voice which said-- "Stand up, Peter, kill something, and eat." read more.
"No, Lord, I cannot," answered Peter, "for I have never eaten anything 'defiled' and 'unclean'." Again he was aware of a voice which said-- "What God has pronounced 'clean', do not regard as 'defiled'."
"No, Lord, I cannot," answered Peter, "for I have never eaten anything 'defiled' and 'unclean'." Again he was aware of a voice which said-- "What God has pronounced 'clean', do not regard as 'defiled'."
and they discourage marriage and enjoin abstinence from certain kinds of food; though God created these foods to be enjoyed thankfully by those who hold the Faith and have attained a full knowledge of the Truth. Everything created by God is good, and there in nothing that need be rejected--provided only that it is received thankfully; for it is consecrated by God's blessing and by prayer.
Food » From God
The right course is to abstain from meat or wine or, indeed, anything that is a stumbling-block to your Brother.
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Look at the wild birds--they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns; and yet your heavenly Father feeds them! And are not you more precious than they?
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and they discourage marriage and enjoin abstinence from certain kinds of food; though God created these foods to be enjoyed thankfully by those who hold the Faith and have attained a full knowledge of the Truth. Everything created by God is good, and there in nothing that need be rejected--provided only that it is received thankfully; for it is consecrated by God's blessing and by prayer.
Give us to-day the bread that we shall need;
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Through my union with the Lord Jesus, I know and am persuaded that nothing is 'defiling in itself.' A thing is 'defiling' only to him who holds it to be so.
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Gifts from God » Temporal » To be used and enjoyed
Everything created by God is good, and there in nothing that need be rejected--provided only that it is received thankfully; for it is consecrated by God's blessing and by prayer.
the Gifts of God » Temporal » To be used and enjoyed
Everything created by God is good, and there in nothing that need be rejected--provided only that it is received thankfully; for it is consecrated by God's blessing and by prayer.
Sanctification » What is sanctified
But the Spirit distinctly says that in later times there will be some who will fall away from the Faith, and devote their attention to misleading spirits, and to the teaching of demons, who will make use of the hypocrisy of lying teachers. These men's consciences are seared, and they discourage marriage and enjoin abstinence from certain kinds of food; though God created these foods to be enjoyed thankfully by those who hold the Faith and have attained a full knowledge of the Truth. read more.
Everything created by God is good, and there in nothing that need be rejected--provided only that it is received thankfully; for it is consecrated by God's blessing and by prayer.
Everything created by God is good, and there in nothing that need be rejected--provided only that it is received thankfully; for it is consecrated by God's blessing and by prayer.