Part 2 is giving me a chance to talk about a rebuttal that I haven't brought up before: eating with thanksgiving. In 1 Timothy 4 Paul talks about there are those who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods. Then he goes to say that "everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving."

The part many who use this chapter to justify eating what God doesn't call food is that Paul specifically points out in verse 3 when talking about the abstinence he specifies "foods that God created".

God never changed what food was, as I have brought up in several other comics on the subject. What Paul is talking about here in 1 Timothy are people who say you can't even eat something God said you could. Much like the instance in Mark 7 where the Jews were challenging Yeshua on the fact that his disciples were eating without washing their hands. What they were eating was food and it was clean, the Jews thought if you didn't wash your hands it made it unclean, therefor not food. Yeshua clarified this isn't the case, much like Paul is doing here.

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