{"id":15295,"date":"2019-09-03T07:54:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T14:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=15295"},"modified":"2019-09-03T07:54:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T14:54:38","slug":"dear-natan-is-paul-justifying-eating-unclean-meat-in-1-corinthians-612-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/03\/dear-natan-is-paul-justifying-eating-unclean-meat-in-1-corinthians-612-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Natan: Is Paul justifying eating unclean meat in 1 Corinthians 6:12\u201313?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1 Corinthians 6:12\u201313,<em> All things are lawful. <\/em><\/strong>When Paul said that all things are lawful to him, what do you think he meant? It\u2019s now all right to murder, commit adultery, lie, steal, have sex with animals, practice witchcraft, and we can also add break the Sabbath, eat pork, etc., etc.? Obviously, violating the commands of Elohim wasn\u2019t what he meant here, for doing such is, by biblical definition, sin (1 John 3:4), and those who love Yeshua will not be sinning, but will keeping his commandments (John 14:15). Moreover, it was our sin that put Yeshua on the cross, so why should we mock Yeshua\u2019s death by continuing to practice sin? In fact, prior to 1 Cor 6:12, Paul listed a number of sins that will prevent one from entering the kingdom of heaven including drunkenness, sexual immorality, theft and so on. So obviously, breaking the laws of Elohim was not what he meant in verse 12. If Paul is here permitting the eating of unclean meat that the Bible forbids and calls an abomination, then he is also permitting sexual immorality\u2014a sin which he juxtaposes in verse 13 with the eating of certain foods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So if Paul wasn\u2019t opposing the biblical dietary laws in verses 12 and 15, what was he really saying? According to David Stern in his <em>Jewish New Testament Commentary<\/em>, Paul was coming against the sexually libertine attitudes of the saints in Corinth whereby they had permitted the man who was having sexual relations with this stepmother and even allowing the sinner to remain in fellowship with the saints there. Stern goes on to say that the phrase, \u201cAll things are lawful to me\u2026Food for the stomach\u2026\u201d is really analogous to the modern phrase, \u201cIf it feels good, do it\u201d\u2014a concept which Paul strongly opposes. Beale and Carson concur with Stern on this in their commentary on this verse (<em>Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament<\/em>, p. 713). In verse 15, Paul goes on to make the point that our bodies are the temples of the Set-Apart Spirit of Elohim and that we need to treat them as holy vessels by not engaging in sinful practices (whether sexual immorality or eating unclean meats).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keener agrees with Stern that Paul was here confronting the ungodly and licentious Greek philosophers who would excuse their libertine carnal appetites by saying \u201cI can get away with anything.\u201d Paul, on the other hand, counters this by saying, \u201cMaybe so, but \u2018anything\u2019 is not good for you\u201d (<em>The IVP Bible Background Commentary of the NT<\/em>, pp. 464\u2013465). Keener goes on to say that \u201c\u2018Food for the stomach and the stomach for food\u2019 was a typical Greek way of arguing by analogy that the body was for sex and sex for the body\u2026.That God would do away with both reflected the typical Greek disdain for the doctrine of the resurrection (chap 15), because Greeks believed that one was done with one\u2019s body at death [which is why they reasoned that it was permissible to do whatever you pleased with your body now]. Paul responds to this Greek position with the Old Testament\/Jewish perspective that the body is for God and he will resurrect it\u201d (i.e. in v. 14, ibid.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul then goes on to explain why a philosophy that excuses sinful behavior is not acceptable to Elohim or beneficial to the saint.<\/p>\n<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemory\"><a href=\"javascript:\" onclick=\"Evernote.doClip({title: 'Dear Natan: Is Paul justifying eating unclean meat in 1 Corinthians 6:12\u201313?',url: 'https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/03\/dear-natan-is-paul-justifying-eating-unclean-meat-in-1-corinthians-612-13\/',contentID: 'post-15295',suggestTags: 'Unclean Meats',providerName: 'Hoshana Rabbah Blog',styling: 'text' });return false\" class=\"evernoteSiteMemoryLink\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.evernote.com\/article-clipper.png\" \nclass=\"evernoteSiteMemoryButton\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\t\t\t\t<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemoryClear\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Corinthians 6:12\u201313, All things are lawful. 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