1 TIMOTHY 4:4 TELLS US IN GENERAL TERMS THAT ALL CLEAN FOODS-meaning those animals that God have not forbidden as foods as listed in Leviticus 11 are good for food. These clean animals are to be considered as foods and to be received and thank for to God.
Interpreting this as all creatures are foods is to be narrow minded in ones approach toward scriptures. Leviticus tells us not to eat 99% of insects like flies, butterflies, mosquitoes, cockroaches….it tells us not to to eat the lizards, the frogs, the mouse,the dogs, the cats the worms…if we misinterpret 1 Timothy 4:4 then we will even eat these abominable and unclean things!
The Bible is the Word of God and He alone must shed light to what He is really telling us, if we play with it…treating His Words as unimportant…then are we also treating the Name of god in vain which is a sin ! For He said:
Exodus 20:7 “You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.
Psalm 138:2 for you have exalted your Word above all your name…
If we continue to twist and misinterpret and treat His Word in vain, we are warned:
2 Peter 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
We are to be sincere interpreter of God’s Word and beliefs in Him-failing in this basic foundational attitude will result in pride in ones own thinking and words-making us clash with the Divine Word of God…if we won’t yield and conform to that Standard and Image of God-His Word, then we are destined to be erased in the future! Remember that!
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