Weak and Strong

People who keep the Sabbath and eat kosher are weak in faith, but the strong in faith treat every day alike and eat anything.

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D. T. Lancaster

D. T. Lancaster

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People who keep the Sabbath and eat kosher are weak in faith, but the strong in faith treat every day alike and eat anything. That's the conventional interpretation of Romans 14. Take a second look at this passage from Paul's Epistle to the Romans and consider a Messianic Jewish intepretation that turns the conventional one upside down. 

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