Question 13
Doesn’t 1 Timothy 4 say that no meat is to be refused?
Bible
1 Timothy 4:3-5
"Forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meats which God has created to be received with thanksgiving. For every creature of God is good and nothing to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving; For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer".
Answer
No, this text is not saying that any kind of meat is ok to eat. The subject in 1 Timothy 4 is meats (foods) which God has created to be received or eaten. Which foods did God create to be eaten? The Bible says, fruits and vegetables, and later God allowed clean animals. The word “creature” means “things created”. Here, the Bible is referring to the things God created in verse 3 to be eaten which are the fruits, vegetables, and later the clean animals, which were sanctified by the word of God. Only fruits, vegetables and clean animals were sanctified by the Word of God.