From now on on your DVDs why don’t you stop using Baal name for the MESSIAH Jesus in greek
means Zeus a Sun God and Christ comes from the Greek word Christos which the Greeks called
all their pagan Gods so when you say Jesus Christ you are calling him a pagan God.
Refer to ARAMAIC ENGLISH NEW TESTAMENT from NETZARI PRESS
(htto://www.aent.org)

Hey, Scot, where is your eFoods Global button?

MESSIANIC LEGALISM!! IF the law were still to be observed than Christ came for nothing!]

The law is a mirror to show you your need for a saviour!Question #1: What is the scriptural position on food? Pork for example: should Christians eat pork according to scripture?

Response #1: In Eden, Adam and Eve were restricted to plant life and to what the trees of the garden produced (Gen.1:29-30). After the flood, God allowed mankind to eat animals, but not with the blood still in them (Gen.9:2-4). The Mosaic Law, given to the children of Israel, contained a wide variety of dietary restrictions. No animal that did not “chew cud” (as cows notably do) or that did not have split hooves (as rabbits notable do not) could be used for food. Pigs have split hooves, but do not “chew cud”, and so were excluded as unclean under the Mosaic Law.

It is important to note that the underlying reason for all the different provisions of the Law (and there are many which have nothing to do with diet) were to mark Israel out as separate, that is, to show by way of clear outward signs that she was unlike any of the other nations on earth, a “holy people”, “sanctified” to God by God. Of course, true sanctification has always been an inward rather than an outward thing, and that has always been true of those belonging to Israel as well to every other person who has ever lived. That is why Paul can say “they are not all Israel, which are of Israel” (Rom.9:6 KJV). For it is the spiritual seed of Abraham who are truly sanctified to God, holy before Him having been cleansed and made righteous by faith, not by any sort of ritualistic behavior or works no matter how perfect the standard may be (this is the whole argument of Romans chapter four).

“Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him ‘unclean’? For it doesn’t go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods “clean.”)
Mark 7:18-19 NIV

As this passage demonstrates, our Lord Himself has shown us that no food is spiritually unclean, and if that was the case for His true followers before the Law had been fulfilled by His death, it is certainly now the case for us after He has fulfilled the Law (Rom.10:4), so that we are no longer under the Law but under grace (Rom.6:14-15).

So don’t let anyone judge you in regard to food or drink, or in the category of festival observances, be it of new moons or Sabbaths. All these things are shadows of what was to come, but the reality has to do with Christ. Let no one gain control over your life, desiring to [enslave you to himself] through a show of false humility and the adoration of angels, basing his approach on what he has [allegedly] seen while puffed up by his own fleshly thoughts, yet not embracing the Head [Christ]. For it is from this Source that the entire body [the Church] is [truly] supplied and instructed through [all] its joints and sinews, and [thus] produces the growth that God has given. If you have died with Christ to these false [pagan] principles [belonging to] this world, why are you letting yourselves be [wrongly] indoctrinated as if your life were of this world? In accordance with the commandments and teaching of [mere] men [these false teachers tell you] “Don’t handle! Don’t taste! Don’t touch!”, even though [we know] that all these [are only] things [which] decay with use.
Colossians 2:16-22

But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron, men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude; for it is sanctified by means of the word of God and prayer.
1st Timothy 4:1-5 NASB

As these passage tells us, advocating abstention from any sort of food for spiritual reasons is not only unauthorized by scripture, but we are not to allow ourselves to be bullied into abstention by others. Furthermore, the 1st Timothy passage tells us that such behavior (i.e., strict dietary regimens incorporated into religious behavior) will be a hallmark of the satanic religion instituted by antichrist (see the link: The Beast’s Prophet and the Worldwide Anti-Christian Religion).

There are, however, several other issues here which any believer should take into careful consideration. First, as the 1st Timothy chapter two passage tells us, attitude is of extreme importance in this regard. Whatever food we eat has to be accepted with thanksgiving towards God who provided it. It is our prayer of thanksgiving, demonstrating our attitude of faith, which sanctifies whatever we eat in keeping with the Word of God. But if, for whatever reason, we have qualms about the “rightness” of eating something or other, then we are not eating “in faith”, and all that is not of faith “is sin” (Rom.14:23). So while it is improper for those who wish to refrain from some type of food not to attempt to force to do likewise those who do not think the same way, it is also improper for those who have qualms about partaking to eat anyway something they are uncomfortable eating, just because their brothers and sisters in Christ are doing so. They have to believe these principles of the Word first, and only partake after they really do believe; otherwise, they are violating their own consciences.

It is also important to note that just as it is improper to pressure others to refrain from what they have no biblical reservations about eating, so it is equally improper to pressure others to eat what they have reservations about eating. More than this, it violates the “law of love” to do anything that may lead a brother or sister in Christ astray. Romans chapters 14-15 (see also 1Cor.8 & 10) makes it quite clear that we are to refrain from eating meat if our doing so causes our fellow Christians to stumble. In Paul’s time, the meat markets of the Hellenistic world were closely connected to idolatry, because the sacrifices made at pagan temples were then sold by the priests et al. to the adjoining markets. Thus, the meat found at market in any given Greek city had most likely been “sacrificed to idols”. Paul is very clear in the chapters cited above that pagan “gods” do not actually exist, so that there is no absolute restriction on eating meat even if such pagan sacrifice is its ultimate source. However, he is also very clear that since this connection was potentially troubling to some, the law of love dictates not eating such meat in front of a fellow Christian who has qualms about it (lest his conscience be weakened and his faith jeopardized).

As is often the case with areas of personal behavior, scripture gives us the two extremes and shows us thereby how to best navigate our course. On the one hand, we are to be grateful for whatever God provides, knowing that everything has been cleansed by our Lord, and that we have the true righteousness of God within us by means of faith, not through adherence to any dietary code. On the other hand, we also need to take into consideration that others may not be at the level where we are spiritually, and we should avoid damaging another’s faith by the liberty we have in Jesus Christ. We should not teach abstention from any food, but we should not pressure others to eat things they have reservations about eating. We should, in short, not make an issue of food nor accept such stipulations from others nor allow ourselves to be coerced into conduct we know is not scriptural, but we also should not put our own freedom above the spiritual well-being of our brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ. We cannot yield to legalism at any point. But we should not seek confrontation on issues which are of very small moment in truth and about which we have no qualms, if some of our fellow Christians see these things as of paramount importance. As a Bible teacher, I am responsible to teach the truth (without advocacy of some behavior which may be optional); as a Christian, I am responsible to live in a way which sets a good example, avoiding any harm to my brothers and sisters in Christ, even if it means foregoing some things I would otherwise do, yet not out coercion (which is evil and must be resisted), but rather out of love for those who have not yet accepted some principle of truth.

So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.
1st Corinthians 10:31 NIV

I hope you find this helpful. Please feel free to write me back about any of this.

In our dear Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.