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Originally Posted by mfblume
Opposites cannot occur in the Word as you claim the issue of jewelry involves opposites. The eating of certain meats involves reasons far different than anything to do with jewelry. The eating of meats regarded foreshadowing and symbolic elements as well as health issues. Nothing ever forbidden in one covenant is allowed for and used as illustrations of holy things and acts in another covenant. Face it, it is wrong to think jewelry is forbidden in the bible. You are missing the context of references in the New Testament. We cannot grasp for straws to hold onto a tradition that is simply mistaken.
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I have showed differences. Meat eating was a violation of the law in the old when it was unclean meat. Today all is blessed by prayer.
Jewelry wearing was pictured as a priviledge of wealth and authority in the Old, Our new high priest wore none of it as he humbled himself completely.
That is the message of the Bible. Do we take it or explain it away by saying it doesn't strictly forbid an action?
Principles are used in the NT. Its the spirit of the law, not the letter for us today. Thou shalts no longer cut it.
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