RANSOM FOR MANY OR ALL ?

[clefty]

:dizzy:


While on earth, Jesus was a minister of the circumcision. He taught the law and the covenants and the prophets.

He did NOT preach the gospel of the grace of God that He gave LATER to Paul.

If Jesus was preaching grace during His earthly ministry ... He would have said so.

Wut?...Another gospel another christ...

It’s all been preaching about grace since Adam and Eve were NOT struck down but an innocent animal was for its skins...to cover them...

Paul was still annoying the jews saying the salvation of Yah was also to the gentiles at the end of Acts 28:28...chapter 28:17 he insists he did nothing against the customs of our fathers...because gentiles were grafted in even in the OT...believe obey...citizen of Israel...

 

[clefty]

It is a testament, like a last will and testament for a man when he dies.
That testament is also a covenant because that man is God.

He modeled and exemplified the new covenant and taught it PRIOR His death...signing it with His blood and sealing it with His death...NO CHANGES are allowed after the testator dies...so what He taught and how He lived is that NEW COVENANT...no changes

And just like the first covenant with Man in the garden the first full day was a Sabbath...just as it was in the New Covenant...

 

[clefty]

Jesus taught the NEW LAW and warned the disciples to do what the Pharisees and teachers of the law said to do because they sat in Moses' seat.

lol...the pharisees and teachers were still teaching OT but not living it...and He expected them to do THAT...what they taught and to live it...

 

[God's Truth]

lol...the pharisees and teachers were still teaching OT but not living it...and He expected them to do THAT...what they taught and to live it...

CHRISTIANS obey the law. It is the law for the temple that had to be kept because the temple was still standing and the Pharisees and teachers of the law enforced the rules and regulations for it.

That does NOT mean Jesus didn't give them a new law a new covenant.

 

[God's Truth]

He modeled and exemplified the new covenant and taught it PRIOR His death...

Of course, because ALL testaments are made by the person when alive!

signing it with His blood and sealing it with His blood..

The scriptures do not say it like that, unless you have a translation that does. Otherwise, he made the new covenant with his blood---and the last will and testament went into force when he shed his blood.

.NO CHANGES are allowed after the testator dies...

No kidding.

so what He taught and how He lived is that NEW COVENANT...no changes

Jesus made a new covenant---it is the old covenant with some changes.

 

[God's Truth]

Wut?...Another gospel another christ...

It’s all been preaching about grace since Adam and Eve were NOT struck down but an innocent animal was for its skins...to cover them...

Paul was still annoying the jews saying the salvation of Yah was also to the gentiles at the end of Acts 28:28...chapter 28:17 he insists he did nothing against the customs of our fathers...because gentiles were grafted in even in the OT...believe obey...citizen of Israel...

There wasn't a covenant of circumcision yet!

 

[clefty]

CHRISTIANS obey the law. It is the law for the temple that had to be kept because the temple was still standing and the Pharisees and teachers of the law enforced the rules and regulations for it.

And He told them to DO what was taught from Moses seat...gave NO indication of...”do until 70AD and this all comes down...then do the new stuff I told ya about”

That does NOT mean Jesus didn't give them a new law a new covenant.

He did give them a new covenant PRIOR HIS DEATH...and what He taught and lived was it...NO CHANGES after His death sealed that New Covenant...So you need to provide “you may eat pig now...and dont bother with Sabbaths anymore” as new laws citations and textual evidence...

even Paul said these ARE shadows of the good still to come...notice the present tense he used...because these ARE still binding...because there is MORE GOOD STILL TO COME...

Is why Peter still kept kosher even...and the Acts 15 council expected the crowding believing goyim to do the same as they came to hear Moses every Sabbath...

 

[clefty]

Of course, because ALL testaments are made by the person when alive!

ok so do exactly as He taught and exemplified...which means dont do what traditions of man cleared the way for...you know rosaries Sundays and swine

]The scriptures do not say it like that, unless you have a translation that does. Otherwise, he made the new covenant with his blood---and the last will and testament went into force when he shed his blood.



No kidding.



Jesus made a new covenant---it is the old covenant with some changes.

changes to the ministry administration and enforcement...of that immutable eternal Law...

you would divide the kingdom under two sets of Laws...the Father’s and the Son’s...an apartheid state at best a divided one at worst...

why do you do that?

Peter was crystal clear there was NO DISTINCTION made by the Spirit when poured on believing gentiles...cuz they looked and lived like jews...you think the Spirit would NOT notice a distinct difference if one group didnt eat swine and the other one did? Or one group kept Sabbath holy and the other had Sunday power hour?

Paul was clear...believing goyim were NO LONGER foreigners or strangers but sovereign citizens of Israel...just like it was in the OT when it was ONE Law for both native and foreigner ALIKE...like the Sabbath...given to the stranger...by faith...

Because His house is a house of prayer for ALLLLL nations...but not some who do and some who don’t...ask Isaiah as it is from new moon to new moon SABBATH TO SABBATH all will come worship...so which calendar is that? Gregorian months dont start on new moons btw...

 

[God's Truth]

And He told them to DO what was taught from Moses seat...gave NO indication of...”do until 70AD and this all comes down...then do the new stuff I told ya about”

They obeyed Jesus all along, and they obeyed the temple rules and regulations so not to offend the Jews.

Jesus said the temple would be destroyed.

Jesus said to do what the Pharisees and teachers of the law said to do because they sat in Moses' seat.

He did give them a new covenant PRIOR HIS DEATH...and what He taught and lived was it...NO CHANGES after His death sealed that New Covenant...So you need to provide “you may eat pig now...and dont bother with Sabbaths anymore” as new laws citations and textual evidence...

You really don't know.

About food not making one unclean:

Mark 7:14And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand: 15There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man. 16If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

About the Sabbath:

Jesus said he works on the Sabbath, and had a man carry his mat on the Sabbath.

John 5:8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.

John 5:10 The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.
16 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day. 17 But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God..

even Paul said these ARE shadows of the good still to come...notice the present tense he used...because these ARE still binding...because there is MORE GOOD STILL TO COME...

Bahahahahahaha Jesus came and that is what Paul is explaining.

Colossians 2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.


Paul is explaining that the shadow was of Christ's body.

Is why Peter still kept kosher even...and the Acts 15 council expected the crowding believing goyim to do the same as they came to hear Moses every Sabbath...

What do you think Peter was telling them to do?

 

[God's Truth]

ok so do exactly as He taught and exemplified...which means dont do what traditions of man cleared the way for...you know rosaries Sundays and swine

I do what Jesus says to do.

changes to the ministry administration and enforcement...of that immutable eternal Law...

Jesus fulfilled the law, and understanding hasn't been given to you.

you would divide the kingdom under two sets of Laws...the Father’s and the Son’s...an apartheid state at best a divided one at worst...

why do you do that?

No such things what you say.

Peter was crystal clear there was NO DISTINCTION made by the Spirit when poured on believing gentiles...cuz they looked and lived like jews...you think the Spirit would NOT notice a distinct difference if one group didnt eat swine and the other one did? Or one group kept Sabbath holy and the other had Sunday power hour?

What one eats didn't matter any more, and all days were about Jesus and are now worthless when it comes to salvation.

They were saved like Peter and the other Jews because they feared God and were righteous and did good.

Paul was clear...believing goyim were NO LONGER foreigners or strangers but sovereign citizens of Israel...just like it was in the OT when it was ONE Law for both native and foreigner ALIKE...like the Sabbath...given to the stranger...by faith...

You just contradicted yourself, for you mentioned the law had to be followed, and then you said by faith. Don't you know that the old law WAS NOT based on faith?

Galatians 312 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.


The WORKS OF THE LAW are the purification works.

That is the works that do not save anymore.

Paul would never say no more of obeying God.

 

[clefty]

They obeyed Jesus all along, and they obeyed the temple rules and regulations so not to offend the Jews.

not to offend jews? You are conflating this with their fear the jews were going to come after them for believing in a Messiah they rejected and had the Romans kill...

they obeyed to please the almighty One...not for fear of the jews...

Jesus said the temple would be destroyed.

and so what? No more sabbaths? eat pork now? They didnt forsake Sabbath or clean diet between the temples during babylon why should they forsake them after 70AD?

Jesus said to do what the Pharisees and teachers of the law said to do because they sat in Moses' seat.

right...so you too...do it...at least try...the Spirit will help guide and encourage you to follow Him...His way...as He lived

You really don't know.

yup just reread Heb 10 it is clear He is the mediator of the new covenant by means of death...the testament is in force AFTER men are dead...BTW dead men can NOT make changes to their testament

About food not making one unclean:

Mark 7:14And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand: 15There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man. 16If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

oh my...did you know some translators go so far as to editorialize and insert into the text “By this He made all food clean” a jew reading this would never think a swine as food...

trust me...if one allows swine to touch his lips his inner jew is ALREADY defiled...it ain’t the pig...LOL

an example...is it the needle of the tattoo artist breaking the skin which makes one unclean or the fact that one decided on a tattoo...which one to get...agreeing to a price...and where to put it on the body...all innner actions PRIOR the needle drawing blood

That is the lesson here...notice how He lists inner heart things as defiling...like licentiousness...pride

About the Sabbath:

Jesus said he works on the Sabbath, and had a man carry his mat on the Sabbath.

John 5:8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.

John 5:10 The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.
16 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day. 17 But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God..

wow...really? That was your best shot at destroying or abrogating a custom tradition Law they have kept for centuries? Pathetic...

pharisees (man) made up their own rules about Sabbath (and myriad of other regulations) and carrying a bed was one of those...so Sabbath was merely restored stolen back from those that would make it a burden...

aint it hilarious that He provokes the Pharisees about the Sabbath...healing a man that could easily be healed the next day...and causing even more outrage with His poke against their “no carrying clause”...LOL

Healing...doing good...bringing joy...are all ways our Father works...as we should...even on Sabbath...

but you seem to think He abrogated an Immutable Law here...despite His “think NOT”...

Sabbath was made for Man (and women) ...not just jews...certainly NOT for them to make it a burden...or keep it for themselves

Bahahahahahaha

easy on the histrionics there sister...

Jesus came and that is what Paul is explaining.

you mean Paul forgets about resurrection day and His return?

Colossians 2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.


Paul is explaining that the shadow was of Christ's body.

Maybe this will help:

https://www.cogwriter.com/news/churc...the-holy-days/

16 Therefore let NO MAN JUDGE YOU in eating and drinking or in respect of a festival or of an observance of the new moon or of a sabbath; 17 for those things are a shadow of the things to come, BUT THE BODY OF CHRIST

It makes sense Paul would counsel only the body of Christ the Church should judge the new goyim believers...I mean why would the other gentiles be concerned if they were NOT keeping the new moons? They had their own calendars right? Or why would the jews be worried they were NOT keeping the Sabbath as well they are unclean goyim and Sabbath was not for them...

The concern here is that the believing goyim WERE keeping the customs of Moses...and other goyim were like “what?!!! that’s jewish!!!” And of course jews were nit pickers on how these shadows were to be kept...Paul was telling them just chill ya dig?

What do you think Peter was telling them to do?

Eat only clean meats prepared cleanly...duh...

as per the Acts 15 council of Jerusalem where 4 things ALREADY in the OT for believing goyim to do was enforced for these new believing goyim crowding the synagogues every sabbath...for them to continue to hear Moses preached EVERY SABBATH...

ask James...He concluded the matter

 

[clefty]

I do what Jesus says to do.

ummm no...you have shown otherwise...

Jesus fulfilled the law, and understanding hasn't been given to you.

even in a secular sense...following someone down the highway who is at 55 mph does mean he fulfills the law so I get to speed...

Imagine explaining to the officer: “but officer all these road rules were fulfilled by others so I don’t have to” laughable...and arrestable...for dui or crazy talk

No such things what you say.

you are making the claims there are two sets of law...one given by the Father the other set by the Son so yes an apartheid kingdom with some citizens doing and some NOT doing...you are dividing His kingdom Their UNITY...

Some around here in order to avoid accountability even try to claim this ONE set doesnt apply to them...as it wasnt given to them...well 9 are but NOT that 10th one about a day of rest...like they are too busy or too productive...too essential to stay home...lol...covid joke

What one eats didn't matter any more,

shown otherwise Acts 15 and Peter insisted he ate only clean...because he ate like He did when He was alive demonstrating the new covenant lifestyle...then sealed it with His death

and all days were about Jesus and are now worthless when it comes to salvation.

you keep repeating it like catholic prayers...Paul was clear they ARE shadows still binding is why the early church met for Pentecost Passover Unleavened bread oh and Sabbaths...copy me Paul said AS I COPY CHRIST...

Oh BTW...these days were kept because they were already saved not in order to be saved...OK? Get it? Left Egypt SAVED then given the laws...

you really are refusing the text...

They were saved like Peter and the other Jews because they feared God and were righteous and did good.

yes they had faith He was their God...kept His commandments...were righteous in keeping all of them and did good...now go and do likewise...sin no more...

stop with the another christ another gospel another law FALSE WITNESS...because jews accused Stephen of the very same thing Acts 6:13-14...that he taught Yahushua changed the customs of Moses...Luke was clear they were FALSE WITNESSES because Stephen did NOT teach He abrogated the Sabbath...

You just contradicted yourself,

oh good grief you and your “GOTCHA!!” spirit...such charm...

for you mentioned the law had to be followed, and then you said by faith. Don't you know that the old law WAS NOT based on faith?

Galatians 312 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.

Your really just cherry pick and reject context and content to make a twisted point don’t you?

Read what Paul writes JUST PRIOR verse 12...”But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of Yah is evident”...WHY? Because “the just shall live by faith”

BUT BUT BUT Paul continues verse 12 “yet the law is not OF faith” wait for it...”BUT the man (or woman) who DOES them shall live by them”

See? Paul returns to Deut 27:20 which he just referenced in verse 10 which is an admonishment to more than just have faith but TO DO THEM...

you know...hear AND DO...kinda like DO what they teach on Moses seat

or Luke 8:21 or Luke 11:28 or John 13:17 or Rev 1:13...enough or do you need more?

or just sing TRUST AND OBEY...

The WORKS OF THE LAW are the purification works.

That is the works that do not save anymore.

they NEVER did Heb 10:4...Law just points out sin...

Paul would never say no more of obeying God.

right...yes...in fact he said COPY me as I COPY Christ...which since He kept Sabbath so did Paul and so should you...if you love Him DO wut?

 

[Right Divider]

Jesus taught the NEW LAW and warned the disciples to do what the Pharisees and teachers of the law said to do because they sat in Moses' seat.

You seem not to understand what it means to "sit in Moses' seat".

There is no "new law". That is AGAIN something that you've made up.

 

[God's Truth]

not to offend jews? You are conflating this with their fear the jews were going to come after them for believing in a Messiah they rejected and had the Romans kill...

they obeyed to please the almighty One...not for fear of the jews...

Pay attention. The earthly temple was still standing and the Pharisees and teachers of the law ENFORCED THE TEMPLE RULES AND REGULATIONS.

and so what? No more sabbaths? eat pork now? They didnt forsake Sabbath or clean diet between the temples during babylon why should they forsake them after 70AD?

Give scripture because you change them so much it is not recognizable.

Special days are worthless and what you eat doesn't make you unclean, but you are not to strangle an animal and drink its blood because that is a morbid soul who would do such a thing.

Do you think we can eat beef after strangling it and then drink its blood?!!!

yup just reread Heb 10 it is clear He is the mediator of the new covenant by means of death...the testament is in force AFTER men are dead...BTW dead men can NOT make changes to their testament

It is about living men not being able to change a man's last will and testament!

oh my...did you know some translators go so far as to editorialize and insert into the text “By this He made all food clean” a jew reading this would never think a swine as food...

I didn't even quote from those translations.

trust me...if one allows swine to touch his lips his inner jew is ALREADY defiled...it ain’t the pig...LOL

Jesus is the one who says food doesn't make one unclean.

an example...is it the needle of the tattoo artist breaking the skin which makes one unclean or the fact that one decided on a tattoo...which one to get...agreeing to a price...and where to put it on the body...all innner actions PRIOR the needle drawing blood

Tattoos are a different topic.

That is the lesson here...notice how He lists inner heart things as defiling...like licentiousness...pride

That proves you wrong.

wow...really? That was your best shot at destroying or abrogating a custom tradition Law they have kept for centuries? Pathetic...

Don't you realize that the purification works made no difference since Jesus?

The earthly temple doesn't matter anymore because Jesus is the temple.

We don't have to take animal sacrifices to the high pries because Jesus is the high priest and sacrificial Lamb.

We don't have to get circumcised in the flesh any more as a sign, because the Holy Spirit circumcises our hearts and is the sign.

We don't have to observe special days anymore, for all those special days were about Jesus; and we observe Jesus every day all day.

We don't have to do various external baths anymore just to be able to go to the temple, because Jesus' blood washes us clean and we become the temple.

pharisees (man) made up their own rules about Sabbath (and myriad of other regulations) and carrying a bed was one of those...

That part was not made up.

so Sabbath was merely restored stolen back from those that would make it a burden...

aint it hilarious that He provokes the Pharisees about the Sabbath...healing a man that could easily be healed the next day...and causing even more outrage with His poke against their “no carrying clause”...LOL

God commanded it in the old testament.


Jeremiah 17:19Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem; 20And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates: 21Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem; 22Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.


You don't know that God commanded it? You try to act like a Jew of the Old Testament times, but don't know what God commanded and what the Pharisees made up?

 

[God's Truth]

You seem not to understand what it means to "sit in Moses' seat".

There is no "new law". That is AGAIN something that you've made up.

You don't know there is a new law, testament, covenant, given by Jesus?

Show from the old law that one had to go through the man named Jesus.

Show from the old law that we don't do eye for eye and tooth for tooth and hand for hand and foot for foot anymore.

Show from the old law that we don't have to offer an animal for forgiveness.

How do you ever get that Jesus didn't make a new law?

 

[Right Divider]

You don't know there is a new law, testament, covenant, given by Jesus?

Show from the old law that one had to go through the man named Jesus.

Show from the old law that we don't do eye for eye and tooth for tooth and hand for hand and foot for foot anymore.

Show from the old law that we don't have to offer an animal for forgiveness.

How do you ever get that Jesus didn't make a new law?

:dizzy:

You seem not to understand what it means to "sit in Moses' seat".

 

[God's Truth]

ummm no...you have shown otherwise...


even in a secular sense...following someone down the highway who is at 55 mph does mean he fulfills the law so I get to speed...

Imagine explaining to the officer: “but officer all these road rules were fulfilled by others so I don’t have to” laughable...and arrestable...for dui or crazy talk

Your analogies don't work.

you are making the claims there are two sets of law...one given by the Father the other set by the Son so yes an apartheid kingdom with some citizens doing and some NOT doing...you are dividing His kingdom Their UNITY...

That is your lack of understanding.

Some around here in order to avoid accountability even try to claim this ONE set doesnt apply to them...as it wasnt given to them...well 9 are but NOT that 10th one about a day of rest...like they are too busy or too productive...too essential to stay home...lol...covid joke


shown otherwise Acts 15 and Peter insisted he ate only clean...because he ate like He did when He was alive demonstrating the new covenant lifestyle...then sealed it with His death

Peter did wrong sometimes out of fear of the Jews---AS THE BIBLE SAYS.

you keep repeating it like catholic prayers...Paul was clear they ARE shadows still binding is why the early church met for Pentecost Passover Unleavened bread oh and Sabbaths...copy me Paul said AS I COPY CHRIST...

The shadow was JESUS' SHADOW! Jesus who came means NO MORE SHADOWS. Jesus is the LIGHT THAT CAME. There are NO MORE SHADOWS IN LIGHT.

Oh BTW...these days were kept because they were already saved not in order to be saved...OK? Get it? Left Egypt SAVED then given the laws...

Not all the people had faith! HOWEVER, they still had to obey so they would be PASSED OVER.

you really are refusing the text...

yes they had faith He was their God...kept His commandments...were righteous in keeping all of them and did good...now go and do likewise...sin no more...

stop with the another christ another gospel another law FALSE WITNESS...because jews accused Stephen of the very same thing Acts 6:13-14...that he taught Yahushua changed the customs of Moses...Luke was clear they were FALSE WITNESSES because Stephen did NOT teach He abrogated the Sabbath...

oh good grief you and your “GOTCHA!!” spirit...such charm...

That is what you call someone showing you God's Truth.

Your really just cherry pick and reject context and content to make a twisted point don’t you?

Read what Paul writes JUST PRIOR verse 12...”But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of Yah is evident”...WHY? Because “the just shall live by faith”

Paul is speaking about the works of the law WHICH ARE THE PURIFICATION WORKS.

BUT BUT BUT Paul continues verse 12 “yet the law is not OF faith” wait for it...”BUT the man (or woman) who DOES them shall live by them”

See? Paul returns to Deut 27:20 which he just referenced in verse 10 which is an admonishment to more than just have faith but TO DO THEM...

you know...hear AND DO...kinda like DO what they teach on Moses seat

or Luke 8:21 or Luke 11:28 or John 13:17 or Rev 1:13...enough or do you need more?

or just sing TRUST AND OBEY...

Paul was speaking of not of works AS NO LONGER OF THE PURIFICATION WORKS because JESUS PURIFIES us by faith now. That is NOT about no longer having to obey God! It is about no longer having to get circumcised and the other PURIFICATION WORKS OF THE LAW.

 

[clefty]

Of course, because ALL testaments are made by the person when alive!

I should have left you at that. We agree.

He taught and lived a testament of His faith walk and when His blood signed it and His death sealed it...it was finalized... no changes by living men to what the dead testator testated...so WWJD? Do that...no Sunday celebrations no pork chops or shrimp...etc

 

[clefty]

You seem not to understand what it means to "sit in Moses' seat".

There is no "new law". That is AGAIN something that you've made up.

She is becoming insufferable...

Even has Him breaking His Father’s Law...which is a sin...

Which would NOT leave Him sinless...spotless or a worthy sacrifice...

Merely to reject what was meant for all...

and not just Jews

 

[God's Truth]

I should have left you at that. We agree.

He taught and lived a testament of His faith walk and when His blood signed it and His death sealed it...it was finalized... no changes by living men to what the dead testator testated...so WWJD? Do that...no Sunday celebrations no pork chops or shrimp...etc

No food is unclean when thanked over to God.

1 Timothy 4:4 For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

1 Corinthians 10:30
If I take part in the meal with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of something I thank God for?

Romans 14:14
I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself.

Romans 14:20
Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean,

Romans 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit,
Hebrews 9:10 They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial washings--external regulations applying until the time of the new order.

Hebrews 13:9
Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and not by ceremonial foods, which are of no value to those devoted to them.