Foods which God developed to be received

February 21, 2010 3:46 am admin Miscellaneous

Whatever happened to that early church — the one that Jesus founded and Paul helped promulgate throughout the experienced public of the first century? It changed. Slowly and for sure, it altered.Warnings of Departure from the FaithYes, they warned us. Some Peter and Paul said it given occur. And it did.Paul in his 1st letter to Timothy: “Now the Spirit expressly says that in last mentioned period some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, talking lies in hypocrisy, possessing their personal conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God developed to be received with thanksgiving by those who have faith in and know the truth.” (1 Timothy 4:1-3 NKJV)And in his subsequent letter to Timothy, Paul repeats his dire warning: “Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; proper, rebuke and encourage-with great longanimity and sure instruction. For the period will come when adult males would not set up with healthy doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they would collect roughly them a solid figure of instructors to state what their itching ears require to listen. They would turn their ears aside from the trueness and turning aside to myths.” (2 Timothy 4:2-4)Once more Paul, Church history in his farewell address to the elders of the church at Ephesus: “I experience that when I am gone, savage wolves will get here in among you and will not free the flock. Still from your own figure men would grow who will distort the trueness in order to get disciples to break away and chase them.