Our blog will share 30 different Bible Contrasts that show distinctions that matter when studying God’s Word. It is important to understand this perspective or we may get confused.
We see a number of dissimilar wordings within God’s Word. Some have seen them as contradictions in the Bible. We prefer the term “contrasts.” The main reason for these differences is that God is setting forth two separate programs (intimated even in Genesis 1:1). The first deals with the earth and Israel. The other concerns the heavens and Christ’s Body Church. It was given to the Apostle Paul to lay out these differences. He is God’s “apostle of the Gentiles” (Rom. 11:13).
So then we must recognize such Bible divisions if we’d truly understand God’s Word and be approved by Him (II Tim. 2:15). Then we must follow the last directives given by God through Paul as “the commandments of the Lord” for this present time (I Cor. 14:37).
Today is Part #30:
MANY MEATS FORBIDDEN: During other ages God limited the diet of His people. At Creation, God commanded men to be vegetarian (Gen. 1:29,30). After Noah’s Flood people were told, “Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.” But living flesh and blood were not to be eaten (Gen. 9:3,4). Later on the Jewish people through Moses were forbidden to eat various animals For example, “the swine [pig] … is unclean to you; of their flesh shall ye not eat, and…not touch” (Lev. 11:1-8).
ALL FOODS ALLOWED: God’s Word through the pen of the Apostle Paul tells believers they may eat anything. “For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the Word of God and prayer.” It is a latter times false doc¬trine to command “to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received…of them which believe and know the truth” (I Tim. 4:1-5).
For more information and understanding, we recommend doing the PMA “Understanding your Bible” our 8 part lesson series available for free download at Free Bible Correspondence – Prison Mission Association
(These points come from Pastor David Adams, booklet, Bible Contrasts used by permission)