《The Importance of Sticking to Truth堅持真理的重要性》
Ref. From: Jenna Martin
For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,because it is consecrated聖化 by the word of God and prayer.
- 1 Timothy 4:4-5
提前4:4凡神所造的物都是好的,若感謝著領受,就沒有一樣可棄的,5都因神的道和人的祈求成為聖潔了。
《All things are good》
We receive things correctly when we receive them as the gifts they are—with thanksgiving—rather as though they were our rights.
當我們以感恩的心領受神給我們的禮物,而不是認為這是人的權利時,我們的心態是正確地接受事物。
Our food choices do not make us more righteous. We can refuse to eat certain things on the basis of health, but not greater spirituality!
我們對食物選擇不會使我們更加公義。我們可以基於健康而拒絕吃某些東西,但這不是較屬靈的表現!
In Genesis 9:3 God says this: Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.
上帝在人墮落後創世記9:3中仍然說:凡活著的動物都可以作你們的食物。這一切我都賜給你們,如同菜蔬一樣。
Most Christians in 2018 don’t take issue with any of this. We’re generally pretty comfortable with the fact that God allows us to eat whichever foods we want, and that marriage is a holy and God-ordained institution.
在2018年,大多數基督徒都不會對此表示質疑。我們通常對上帝允許我們吃任何我們想要的食物這一事實感到自然的,也認為婚姻是上帝神聖的旨意。
That said, there are a couple of ongoing issues that the first few verses of 1 Timothy 4 speak to, and they still affect us today. These issues are legalism and false teachings.
但是,提摩太前書4章1~3節經文談到了當時幾個正在流行的問題,它們至今仍然影響著我們。這些問題是人造的律法和錯誤教導。
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有天和老師談到:食物都可吃,只是不偏食和貪吃。他說:人墮落後就不合這真理。其實,上帝造的都是好的,尤其是吃當地的土產。而「人墮落」後,世人貪婪,造成農藥殘留,吃越多不但未提升免疫力,反而更敗壞。