Do Not Touch, Do Not Taste, Do Not Handle
Here is today’s Bible or Not quote, no opinion piece, just a quote.
“Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle.”
Before you Google this, stop, think… is it Bible or not?
If you think it’s in the Bible, ask yourself, is it Old Testament or New Testament? Might you know who said or wrote it? What book would you find it in, assuming it was in the Bible?
If you don’t think it’s in the Bible, ask yourself if it is based on Biblical principles. Then Google it and see if you’re right.
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This quote is a Bible verse – Colossians 2:21. And it is not about what you can’t do, it’s just the opposite saying that this is not what being a Christian is all about. We are not subject to regulations.
20 Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations— 21 “Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,” 22 which all concern things which perish with the using—according to the commandments and doctrines of men? 23 These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.
I agree, and all good points. What’s it’s saying even more is not that we aren’t subject to rules, so therefore just doas you please, I think it’s saying that it’s even harder for us because we know that having the rule sitting there doesn’t make us obey it. We have to be even more disciplined because we are under grace and it’s too easy to use grace as an out. Paul said tot he Romans in Romans 6:14-16 (King James Version)
14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
15What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? (And then how did he answer his own question?) ____________________
16Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Good stuff.
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