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| Gregkleinig Registered user Username: Gregkleinig Post Number: 28 Registered: 12-2010 |
In 1st Tim. 1-5 Paul says that the Spirit says that in the latter days some will teach that you have to abstain from certain foods. This is said to be a doctrine of demons. The obvious fulfilment of this prophecy seems to be SDAs and their teaching that the OT teaching of unclean animals is still binding in spite of Jesus declaring all food clean in Mark 7:19. Am I being fair in seeing SDAs fulfilling this prophecy? Are they opening themselves to increased instances of demon possession? Are there other teachings that the Bible specifically calls doctrines of demons? Greg | ||
| Honestwitness Registered user Username: Honestwitness Post Number: 1158 Registered: 7-2005  |
Greg, I just did a search of the word "demons" in my electronic ESV Bible and the passage you quoted is the only one that discusses doctrines (teachings) of demons. To be fair, the verse above says that there are two teachings that seem to go together - forbidding marriage and forbidding eacing certain foods. As a general rule, Adventists do not forbid marriage, so half of this formula does not apply to Adventists. However, the Roman Catholic Church encourages priests and nuns, which could be seen as forbidding marriage. They also encourage fasting from certain foods during Lent. I have heard Adventist teachings that claim this passage applies not to Adventism, but to the RCC. Another group to which this passage has been applied is the Essenes, who were so vehement in their abstaining from marriage that their sect died out for lack of offspring to carry it forward. I don't know if the Essenes forbade eating certain foods. Maybe someone else can provide insight into that. | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 12505 Registered: 12-2003  |
I don't see those doctrines as necessarily being connected. Paul makes much of the idea that physical discipline has some benefits, but it doesn't have any benefits toward holiness. Either forbidding marriage or forbidding foods falls into the category of the physical discipline he's discussing. Colleen | ||
| Ric_b Registered user Username: Ric_b Post Number: 912 Registered: 7-2004  |
Honest witness, If you consider EGWs instructions to wives to avoid having sex with their husbands it seems to be the same concept, if not the exact words. I think it fits EGW better than we might have thought at first pass. |
