1 Timothy 4:3
Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
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Study Note
Paul's description of 'deceitful spirits and teachings of demons' manifesting as 'forbidding marriage and requiring abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving' addresses a form of asceticism that Paul rejects on creational grounds. The argument is fundamentally theological: created goods that God 'consecrated by the word of God and prayer' (verse 5) cannot be inherently evil; to treat them as such is to malign creation. This stands in tension with Paul's own qualified preference for celibacy (1 Corinthians 7), requiring careful reading: Paul affirms both goods while opposing any teaching that demonizes the created order itself. The verse has been significant in Christian evaluations of Manichean, Gnostic, and later encratite movements that grounded ascetic practice in a negative theology of material creation.
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forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth.
forbidding to marry--to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,
Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.
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