My latest post in my thread on Sharper Iron concerning foods, days, worship music, and the teaching of Romans 14:
A. Divinely provided use of honey as a foodstuff
Deut. 32:13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
Ps. 81:16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
B. Divinely approved use of honey as a foodstuff
Prov. 24:13 My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:
Prov. 25:16 Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
Isa. 7:15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
C. Prohibited consumption of honey [from an unacceptable source] as a foodstuff
Jdg. 14:8 And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.
Jdg. 14:9 And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.
D. Divine revelation warning against intemperate consumption of honey as a foodstuff
Prov. 25:16 Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
Prov. 25:27 It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
E. Divinely prohibited use of honey in worship
Lev. 2:11 No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.
F. Sinful use of honey in idolatrous worship
Ezek. 16:19 My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD.
How do these biblical points about honey inform our understanding of what Romans 14 teaches about strong believers being the ones who eat ‘all things’?”
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