“Don’t handle! Don’t taste! Don’t touch!”
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat of it and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
Leave, leave! Get out of there! Touch no unclean thing. Go out of her midst. Purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of Adonai.
Therefore, come out from among them, and be separate, says Adonai. Touch no unclean thing. Then I will take you in.
If you died with Messiah to the basic principles of the world, why—as though living in the world—do you subject yourselves to their rules?
These all lead to decay with use, based as they are on man-made commands and teachings.
They forbid people to marry; they command people to abstain from foods that God created for the faithful to share with thanksgiving, having come to know the truth.
