Im sorry but u are wrong. If u dont believe me go read it urself. we'll see whos wrong. You obviously have not read it.
"But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered. For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels." [1 Corinthians 11:5-10]
In the book of Leviticus, Chapter 11, v.7, it is recorded that God declares the pig to be unclean for believers. Then, in verse 8, God says: ' You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you'. This command is repeated in Deuteronomy 14;7-8. Then, in Isaiah 65:2-4, and 66:17, God issues a stern warning against those who eat pork.
Some people are aware of this prohibition from God, but they say that they can eat pork because St. Paul said that all food is clean in his letter to the Romans 14:20. St. Paul said this because he believed (as he wrote in his letter to the Ephesians 2:14-15) that Jesus had abolished the Law with all its commandments and regulations. He seems, however, to have misunderstood what he heard from Jesus. In the Gospel According to Matthew 5:17-20, Jesus is reported to have said quite the contrary, as follows: ' Do not think that I have come to abolish the law...' Jesus then went on in that passage (in verse 19) to denounce anyone who would break the smallest commandment and teach others likewise. He also praised his true followers who will practice and teach even the smallest commandments. One of the commandments, as we have seen, is to stay away from pork.
Tayyaba, thank you for your post. You did a good job of trying to support your position regarding pork, but you are still wrong to apply those O.T. verses to Christians. They were written to Jews and apply only to Jews. You cannot interpret what Jesus said in Matthew 5:17-20 in such a way as to make Paul misunderstanding it, and therefore writing something wrong to believers in his epistles. That would probably be like one of the "contradictions" that Muslims use to discredit the Bible. What Paul wrote is just as inspired of God as what Matthew wrote when he quoted Jesus. So you must interpret the two in such as way as to uphold the validity of both.
Let's look at both. First,
Matthew 5:17-20 says:
17. "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets.
I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.
18. "For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away,
one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.
19. "Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
20. "For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.
Now, let's look at
Romans 14:
1. Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes over doubtful things.
2. For
one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.
3.
Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God has received him.
4.
Who are you to judge another's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.
5. One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike.
Let each be fully convinced in his own mind.
6. He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it.
He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.
7. For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.
8. For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's.
9. For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
10.
But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
11. For it is written: "As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to God.''
12. So then each of us shall give account of himself to God.
13. Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather resolve this, not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother's way.
14.
I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
15.
Yet if your brother is grieved because of your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died.
16. Therefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil;
17. for
the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
18. For
he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.
19. Therefore let us
pursue the things which make for peace and the things by which one may edify another.
20.
Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are pure, but it is evil for the man who eats with offense.
21.
It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak.
22. Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God.
Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.
23. But
he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from faith; for whatever is not from faith is sin.
How do I reconcile the two? By concluding this: Jesus came to
fulfill the law. By His perfect life and His sacrificial death for our sins and resurrection from the grave, He
fulfilled it and so we are no longer under the Mosaic law but now Christians are under the Law of Christ, which is to love one another as He has loved us. He said in John 13:34, "A
new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another." One chapter back from Romans 14 above, we read:
Romans 13:
8. Owe no one anything except to
love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.
9. For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery,'' "You shall not murder,'' "You shall not steal,'' "You shall not bear false witness,'' "You shall not covet,'' and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself.''
10.
Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Paul applies that in Romans 14 when he says in verse 15, "
Yet if your brother is grieved because of your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died.
The other thing we need to remember is that under the New Covenant, Christians are not under law but under grace. In Romans 6 we read,
14. For sin shall not have dominion over you, for
you are not under law but under grace.
15. What then? Shall we sin because
we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!
For the Jews, however, who have kept themselves
under the law, they are bound by the law to obey the WHOLE law, all 600+ commandments, even though they don't realize that they will never be made righteous in God's sight by trying to keep it all. Paul, in Galatians 3 says,
10. For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, "
Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.''
11. But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for "The just shall live by faith.''
12. Yet the law is not of faith, but "The man who does them shall live by them.''
13.
Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree''),
21. Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.
22. But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
23. But
before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed.
24.
Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25.
But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
And in Romans 3, Paul said:
19. Now we know that
whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
20. Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for
by the law is the knowledge of sin.
I now come to the most important verses dealing with this subject of pork. Paul writes to young Timothy in
1Timothy 4:
1. Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,
2. speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron,
3. forbidding to marry, and
commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
4.
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving;
5.
for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
6. If you instruct the brethren in these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished in the words of faith and of the good doctrine which you have carefully followed.
Verses 4 & 5 tells the Christian that there are no longer clean/unclean distinctions, and all are good and nothing to be refused IF it is received with thanksgiving, because it is sanctified (or set apart for special use) by the word of God and prayer. When I pray before a meal, I am thanking God for the food and also asking God to sanctify the food, or make it good for the use of my body, to nourish and strengthen it.
Notice also verse 6 in which Paul tells Timothy that Timothy will be a
good minister of Jesus Christ if he so
instructs believers, contrary to what is said in Matt. 5:19. So, the commandments of the Law or Prophets referred to in Matt. 5:19 are obviously not applicable to the New Covenant believers who are "not under law but under grace."
Now, with respect to the second item you mentioned, a woman's covering, you are correct and I was wrong. When you said, "woman r supposed to be covered," I envisioned the Muslim berka (is that what it's called?) which covers the entire body except the eyes (I guess, correct me if I'm wrong again). Christian women are not commanded to wear that sort of thing, nor even veils, but only dress in "modest apparel" (1 Tim. 2:8), which unfortunately they don't always. The passage you cite, 1 Cor. 11:5-10, deals only with a covering on the
head, and perhaps only in the assembly of believers, not generally elsewhere in public. Notice it says, "..every woman that
prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head" (verse 5). And verses 17 and 18 talk about them coming together in the church. A woman can, of course, pray anywhere, but prophesying seems like it would be done in an assembly, although elsewhere women are told to be in silence there. In addition, the head covering or hat for women in the assembly might be merely a "custom" (see verse 16) and perhaps not universally applicable for all times and places. In any event, there are a few groups of believers who still practice that, like the Plymouth Brethren churches.
I apologize for anything I said that was not loving, such as the comment about getting educated, etc. That was wrong. In the future, please give the verse citation (1 Cor. 11, Matt. 5, etc.) when you're referring to something Christians should be doing, etc. It would have saved a lot of this.
Peace
