Words to Aristotle

You sound like me when I stood at the foot of Jesus, and He was preaching Paul. (Bear with me here, it was a dream). I ran around with my fingers in my ear, resisting Him, but He told me it was the sweetest part of the faith. And I also used to get mad at the Law, which Mary (Bear with me here, this is another dream) told me was necessary for defending the good.

Now, the Gospel is very nuanced, and very complex. You can’t have the Law without forgiveness. Or no one is saved. You also can’t have forgiveness, without the Law, or no one does what is right, and all men suffer.

But with regard to meats and holiday and festival, anything done in faith is good. If you don’t eat pork or rest on Saturday to the LORD’s glory, that’s your right to do as a Christian, and you do it for Christ. But, if you judge me, I have liberty in Christ to not worry about those things. To each man let him be fully convinced, but our hands are not to do violence, and our battle is within us, not in the world around us.