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1 Timothy 4:4

First Nations Version

For all of his creation is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with a grateful heart.

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While it is true that all foods are ceremonially pure, it is not good to force the way you eat on others and make them stumble.


Go ahead and eat the food offered at the trading posts without asking any questions. Then you will not have to trouble yourself about it.


Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One has shown me that no food by nature is ceremonially impure, but if someone considers it to be impure, for that person it is impure.


We may be free to do anything we desire, but not all things we can do will lead to harmony with one another or with the Great Spirit. Not all things bring help and strength to each other.


“As for the ones from the Outside Nations who have trusted in Creator Sets Free (Jesus), we sent them a message with our decision that they should stay away from things offered to evil spirits, from drinking blood, from the meat of a strangled animal, and from sexual impurity.”


They stop people from getting married and tell people to stay away from eating certain kinds of foods. These foods were created by the Great Spirit to be received with grateful hearts by those who trust in and know the truth.


that you stay away from things offered to evil spirits, from drinking blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual impurity. If you stay away from these things you will be walking in a good way. Safe journeys to you.”


Then the Voice spoke to him a second time, “What the Great Spirit has made clean, you must not consider impure.”


The one who keeps a day as sacred does so to honor the Great Spirit. It is the same for the one who eats all foods and for the one who does not. For they are both doing so to honor and give thanks to the Great Spirit.


“For the earth and all that is in it belongs to the Great Spirit.”


If I give thanks for it, then why should anyone be able to accuse me of wrongdoing?”





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