1 Peter 4:3? banquetings are sinful?
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some people still do that today, lol
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Foremost, quote the book and scripture from which you are referring.  There are a myraid of things that may be wrong with your argument that may not come to light unless you are honest in asking a question.  Honesty in asking includes citing your source.\n\nSecondly, this was a question proposed by Saint Augustine during the Fall of the Roman Empire.\n\nThe real question is - "So, we know the right way to live.  Great!  Why don't we do it?"\n\nThe answer is that we still have sin on our souls.  As sinners, we are given over to minor bouts of gluttony where we wish to eat things that taste good rather that what is best for our body.\n\nIt is not easy for anyone, let alone the whole of the Christain world (read Western Society), to break completely from this sin.\n\nIf you are so enlightened as to what Christains should eat, tell me, how do you purge your soul of minor bouts of gluttony?\n\nIt seems you ask your questions more to discredit Christains than to help them.
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Mathew 5:27-28 "You have heard it said that you shall not commit adultery BUT I say to you that everyone who looks on a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart". So much for pornography.\nSex for pleasure (outside marriage) I Corinthians 6:9 "Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God.  Do NOT be deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolators, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, .....  will inherit the kingdom of God".   So much for fun sex.
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Did not Jesus attend a wedding with music, dancing, and wine.  Did not Paul say that music and singing honored God.  And check out the Proverbs.  Talk about God loving people who wrote music and prose to honor their God!\n\nNo music is not a sin.  Religion teaching that music is a sin is the sin.
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Don't believe it.  Repentance is key in this.  Sin will not exist in the presence of Heavenly Father.
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Subject is about humility.\n\nAT the time that this story was told, guests were seated in a pattern going out from the host. \n\nThe guest of honor would sit at the right hand of the host.\n\nguests would be seated according to the order of importance.\n\nIf someone of greater importance came in, they would be allowed to sit closer to the guset of honor.\n\nJesus tells the story as a warning and a promise.\n\nIf a guest were to feel as if he was more important than some of the other guests at the feast, he might seat himself closer to the guest of honor and the host.\n\nBUT, if someone of true greater importance comes in, the host will do his duty. He will take the person and PROMOTE him toward the head of the table. He will make a BIG deal about the fact that this person is important partially because he is bragging about the fact that this person has attended his banquet and partially because he is TRYING to pay this person a great respect.\n\nThe problem is, YOU make be removed from your seat and the new guest is dropped into your spot. Rather than moving everyone, you take your plate and move to the END of the line. In other words, because you have exhaulted yourself, you run the risk of being publicly humiliated by be chosen to be replaced by someone obviously more important than you are. YOU shall be LAST.. Sitting with the Servants.\n\nNOW, if you come into a dinner and seat yourself in the most humble position (the last position), the host will be greeting his guests and see that you are out of place. \n\nHe will do his duty and lift you up from your seat. He will promote you up toward the front of the table thuse exhaulting you. You may even be maded first. \nBecause you chose not to exhault yourself and you were humble, the host paid you a great compliment in front of all the other guests by moving you closer to him.\n\nPicture though, often there was no table, and everyone was seated in a reclining position partially leaning on the pillws and leaning on each other. \nYou ATE with one hand from the Plate the the person next to you was holding. You were Feeding off of someone else, so to speak (as someone (or a parasite)  might feed off of a host). \nThe food closest to the guest of honor was of much better quality (and quantity) than that which was at the end of the table. It was Very important to sit as close as possible to the host. You might get no meat at all, or get the leftovers if you did not.\n\nThe First shall be last (embarrased and sent to the end of the food chain) and the last shall be first (promoted to their proper place of importance).\n\nJesus suggests that if you humble youself before God and treat yourself as a servant, then you shall be made to be great in his eyes and the eyes of others.
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No sin here, weird but no sin that I can see. God gives freedom here. Heb 13:4 is good. I don't see anything that looks life defilement. Also read the Song of Solomon, pretty heavy stuff. Just don't invite the neighbors over, that would be taking it to far.\n\nYou need to look into why God damns? I don't think you get it.
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Matthew 5:27-30:\n"You have heard that it was said, `Do not commit adultery.'  But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.  If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.  And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.\n\nProverbs 6:25-26:\nDo not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes, for the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.\n\nColossians 3:5-6:\nPut to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.  Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.\n\n1 Thessalonians 4:3-8:\nIt is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;  that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable,  not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God;  and that in this matter no one should wrong his brother or take advantage of him. The Lord will punish men for all such sins, as we have already told you and warned you.  For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.  Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.
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From a Bible believing, bible teaching church, absolutely.\n\nReason being, immorality must be judged. Homosexuality is immoral and not the fruit of salvation.  "Do not be decieved...homosexuals will not inherit the kingdom of God. Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Sprit of our God." (1 Cor 6) This sinful perversion is condemned always, in any form, by Scripture (Lv 18:22; 20:13; Ro 1:26,27; 1Ti 1:10).\n\n"I wrote to you not associate with any SO CALLED brother if he is an immoral person...not even to eat with such a one. For what have I to do with judgeing outsiders? Do you not judge those who are WITHIN THE CHURCH? But those who are outside, God judges. REMOVE THE WICKED MAN FORM AMONG YOURSELVES." (1 Corintians 5)\n\nPaul expected the Corinthians to disassociate with all who SAID THEY WERE CHRISTIANS, but has a consistent pattern of sin. The meal was a sign of acceptance and fellowship in those days. Paul never intended himself or the church to be judges of unbelievers outside the church, but to judge those inside. Those on the outside are for God to judge and believers to evangelize. Those who sin on the inside, the church is to PUT OUT.\n\nAccording to the Bible, those who are OUTSIDE are for God to judge and believers to evangelize.  Those who LIVE IN (and there's a big difference between "living" in homosexuality and "battling" the temptation of sexual immorality) sin on the INSIDE, the church is to PUT OUT.
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Yes.  I would suggest reading James 3.  As Jesus said to the Pharisees:\n\nMatthew 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.\n 35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.\n 36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.\n 37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
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this question is sinful.
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I think your pastor was full of it, and it wasn't food. Show me where in the Bible it says that being overweight is a sin.
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Hi Mathias, think of the terrible price that Jesus paid for your salvation and the agony He endured for you in the garden of olives, think also of the rejection that He endured and still does to win you the grace to live by Christian standards, now if you can do this then surely it is enough to let you know that spilling the seed of life that God gave you is indeed sinful and is not what Jesus would have you do as if it was right.\nthink to of your Angel Guardian who is at your side and has to turn away from you whenever you resort to this, you are like the rest of us, weak so pray for the courage to stop this degrading act
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1st Samuel 15:2  "Thus says the LORD of Host, "I will punish Amalek for what He did to Israel, how He set himself against him on the way while he was coming up from Egypt. Samuel 15:3...\n\nSaul didn't obey God on this one.. The LORD said to Samuel, "I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following Me, and has not carried out My commands." \n\nBehold to obey is better than sacrifice. Rebellion is as the sin of divination.  This is when the LORD rejected Him as king over Israel.  Read the whole chapter.\n\nTo me, I don't understand God about the animals, but God knew it was necessary.  I have a hunch It had to do with bestiality & the whole area had been corrupt with the idolatry.  Also, innocent animals, people die all the time because of the sins of others.  Man's sin can lead to natural disasters.   Environmental sins cause polution.
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the bible says if we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forrgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. \nrighteousness means right standing with god.\n it also says what soever you sow you will also reap in THIS lifetime.\nthat means no free lunch, here and now. if you want to be bad you still have to pay for it. before the judgement. and no priest can change that. so start praying for crop failure.
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That reminds me. I have to turn my eggs before they burn.\nSeriously. I am a strong outspoken Christian, but I don't have a moral opinion on this. I can't find anything against it in the bible.
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The passage that describes how giving should be done under the New Covenant of grace is as follows:\n\n"But I say this, He who sows sparingly shall also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully shall also reap bountifully. Each one, as he purposes in his heart, let him give; not of grief, or of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that in everything, always having all self-sufficiency, you may abound to every good work; As it is written, "He scattered; he has given to the poor; his righteousness remains forever." Now He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for eating, may He supply and multiply your seed, and increase the fruits of your righteousness you being enriched in everything to all generosity, which works out thanksgiving to God through us. \n(2 Corinthians 9:6-11)\n\nGod loves a "cheerful" giver, not a person who gives grudgingly. Many Christians feel that a tithe is too little to give back to the Kingdom work of Christ when they consider how much He has done for them.\n\nGod doesn't want or need your money if you don't give it in faith that He will honor you by supplying all of your needs in return.\n\n"But my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. \n(Philippians 4:19)\n\n"Therefore do not be anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, With what shall we be clothed? For the nations seek after all these things. For your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you. \n(Matthew 6:31-33)