Even with my poor eyesight I can "see" that quite clearly. It ties in too well with Bill Clinton seeking the office of Sec Gen of the UN.

I wonder what their "supposed intentions" were?

Evangelist

Thank you. I didn't think that I was seeing things, either.
And thank you for a much better amplification of what I was trying to say.

I didn't mean to be offensive or evasive. I have discussed things on another website with many that proclaim atheism. I have nothing against atheists and have actually enjoyed taking to a few that really want to talk and not bash. It has been a common thing for those that I have talked to, to use that phraseology when questioning the Bible. Again I didn't mean to offend anyone just wanted to know for sure where you stood so to be able to better understand.

As to your question......

The Bible doesn't give us specifics that I know of (perhaps there is someone else on this board that does), to know why we couldn't eat those things and now we can. I just know that it is that we can. Perhaps there was something wrong with that type of food at one time that made it not good for human consumption, but I am guessing here at best. I will leave this to someone else that may have studied it more than I have.

I havn't made a study of it myself because the Bible tells us:

Mat 6:25  Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

Actually we do not know what the fruit looked like. An apple was used in pictorals of the event because it was a common known fruit. Adam and eve ate of the "fruit of the tree of knowledge" which gave them the knowledge of right from wrong. This gave them  and their descendants the understanding of sin. Having this knowledge therefore made them accountable for their sins the first of which was the eating of that fruit.

Does this make us the same as other animals? No. We were made to have dominion over animals and plants. We were made with a soul from the start just not to have accountability.

Gen 1:26  And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.


Gen 2:7  And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

[NOW]

Passing it on to all that I can.

My prayers start NOW and without ceasing.

Thank you for pointing this out.

The KJV says, in full:

1Co 14:5  I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.


It has nothing to do with want, And as the rest of the sentence tells us Paul would rather that we were able to prophesy. For isn't it better to do what is of benefit to all and not just one?

No one is going to dictate what, where or when I pray, or what I may preach except God himself. Even if it means jail time for me.

Sulphurdolphin,

You quote a partial scripture, I Cor 14:5 as reading "I want for you all to speak with tongues..."

Which version of the "bible" did you get that from?

felix102

AMEN!

[understanding]

Here is another one that causes a lot of problems.

KJV
1Co 14:14  For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.

NIV
For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.

[understanding]

1Co 14:14  For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
1Co 14:15  What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.


The greatest gift is Salvation through Jesus Christ (charity).

I will stick with charity and the seeking of understanding.

I questioned "change in tone" as that is a very popular term amongst atheists.

Change in tone?

Many of the laws and rules that you speak of in the Old Testament was under the old covenant. We have a new covenant with God through Jesus Christ. As for what to eat the Bible tells us:

Mat 6:25  Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

Rom 14:2  For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
Rom 14:3  Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.

Amen, brother.