If our bodies don't belong to us.......

[RND]

1 Cor 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

If our bodies don't belong to us, and the apostle Paul tells us clearly that they don't (He gave it and thus it is His), then how can anyone, especially a Christian, believe they can do whatever they want to the body they were given?

Is a Christian free to eat, drink and ingest anything they want, whenever they want, without consequences or fear of retribution? Hasn't the appetite of man always been a problem that has led to sin and sadness? Did not Adam's appetite cause him to fall? Did not Noah's appetite cause him to fail? Did not David's appetite cause him to fail?

How then can we insist that "It's my body and I can do with it as I please?" And if a person feels that they can ignore the sound advice of God when it comes to eating something unclean, what right does that person have in pointing out that someone doesn't have the right to terminate a pregnancy?

 

[GodspromisesRyes]

i agree that is true, as christians we do not have the " right" to do anything that the Lord does not give us the freedom in.Even if the country we live in gives us a freedom, it is not free to us or a right to us if not given to us by God as christians because He has a higher standard for us then for the world.

with that said it appears to me as you mention food God calls unclean that you may be referring to the old testament laws about food.- If this is the case this is where i will address it from. Not all that was unclean in the OT is unclean in Christ. To us who are in Christ, what is not to be eaten by us is 1) blood 2) things strangled 3)things offered to idols because of the sake of others consciouses. Beyond that it is a matter of conscious. In Christ all animals are to be recieved with thanksgiving and blessing and praise to God who gave it. There is nothing about an animal that defiles us because the kingdom of God is within us and the kingdom of God is not in meats and drinks etc... Not even poison can harm us who are in Christ.

We have to remember that the law was made and added FOR sinners, because of sin. It was not made and given to Holy Faithful people but those who needed it added because of their unbelief when they heard the gospel. It does not speak to the righteous except now what it teaches us by example of the spiritual truth of Christ and His Spiritual kingdom. Now there is much GREAT things to learn in the Spirit about each thing mentioned in the letter about unclean meats but that is for another time.

What is more dangerous to us is that we do not let our bellies and lusts rule over us whether in food or anything else. The word of God warns more about dainties than many realise. We have to remember that meat- that is the lust of it has caused more people to sin than is spoke of meats being unclean.

Remember esau sold his birthright for a mess of meat. Egypt was in the hearts of the isrelites when they remembered the flesh posts. and this was not unclean meat so we must eat with thanksgiving and not in lusts.

Before the law from the time after the flood on it was legal to meat all things then after Jesus came it is the same again.