We’re going to be talking about God’s kosher laws as they pertain to food. But before we dive in, as with many of the other topics I discuss, there are some foundational principles and mechanics you’ve got to understand first or else you’ll be building your theology on a bed of ever shifting and unstable […]

If I was to pick the one defining and most important point of our discussion concerning mankind and sin we’ve been having, I would say it is this:  Since the Law defines what sin is, it would logically follow that minus the Law, there can be no sin. Since we now understand this, we’re in […]

Let’s continue our discussion on the scriptural viewpoint of mankind and sin that we began yesterday. Recall I concluded our study by pointing out there are two categories of choice-making available to humans. One category deals with moral choices (right and wrong as defined by God in the Bible) and the other category deals with […]

Alright folks, out of necessity, at this point in our Torah studies, I need to engage you in a bit of a philosophical dialogue concerning the Scriptural viewpoint of mankind and sin. Let’s start with basic foundations. First, every human being without exception, you, me and your next door neighbor, everyone is born with two […]

“You are not to eat anything disgusting.”-Deuteronomy 14:3 Verse 3 of Deuteronomy Chapter 14 begins a fairly long section dealing with the required holiness of the Israelite diet. What is key here is distinguishing between acceptable versus forbidden foods… …or to put it Scripturally… …clean versus unclean foods. Here’s an important point you need to […]