What To Do With The Bones
I was reading a person talk about how you have to ’spit out the bones’ when partaking of certain theologies. As I thought about this, I began to notice what people really do when they have a T-Bone, NY Strip, or a bone-in Ribeye steak….
Very simple, they cut the meat from around the bone and eat the meat. Nobody ever tries to swallow the bone.
The key point here is that [b]you never[/b] partake of any bones in the first place therefore you never have to spit the bones out to begin with. Why can’t we do this theologically? Why can’t we look at the bones to see if there is meat there that can be seperated to begin with and seperate it before it enters the body?
These pragmatic people who tell you to ’spit out the bones’ while swallowing the meat are really deceiving us into an ‘anything goes’ theology where we seperate after the meat-bone mixture is already inside us when we are supposed to do the seperating beforehand. In fact, their entire theological mindset is around eating ‘meat’ hoping there isn’t a bone there to begin with that they have to spit out but be prepared to spit the bone out.
So don’t do the ’swallow meat - spit out bones’ routine. Instead, cut the bones away before eating, swallowing, and embracing the meat to where you have pure meat to begin with. Same thing applies with Biblical teachings, cut the bones and junk away from the teaching before eating, swallowing, and embracing the teaching. Some teachings, you will find out that there is no meat present, just bone…..
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Nice. Mentally applicable and deliciously digestible. I too have often wondered about this saying “eat the meat and spit out the bone.” It is used in our fellowship even in the highest levels of leadership. However, I have often meditated on this phrase when accepting certain things said or taught by someone who has been given the right hand of fellowship and acceptance to speak in any official forums. I like your perfect description of our real consummation of meat and its application to receiving doctrine by anyone. If I may digress for a moment, my meditation on this phrase had me thinking about the Bible, our ultimate rule for faith and doctrine. I tried to imagine myself in Antioch there for a one day conference. Our speakers would be Paul of Tarsus and Barnabas of Cyrene. At the end of the day I traveled home consuming their teachings like it was meat in my mind and heart, all the while making sure to be aware that there could be bones in this meat, bones that could kill me if I were to choke on one. So I had to make sure that I spit out any bones that I came across as I chomped on their meat. I don’t think so. Paul and Barnabas would have already cut away the meat from the bone and that is what they would have fed me…I must believe.
God’s blessing and I hope someone knows how to do that Heimlich thing!
Jim
Jim:
First of all, thanks for your great comments.
You made a very astute point about hoping ’someone knows how to do the Heimlich thing’. Thinking about this further and deeper after reading that thought, I realized that is exactly what happens to those people physically (and those Spiritually) who eat meat with the bones and become unable to ’spit the bones out’
They choke!!!!!
The passageway of breathing gets obstructed and if the choking is not addressed by forced coughing, backslapping, or the Heimlich maneuver, the person eventually dies.
Even a parent who loves their children when weaning the child off baby food will always double check the meat they cut into small bites for bones and discard the bones. When the child is a little older and starts to learn table manners especially in the area of using utensils, the child is taught to cut the meat away from the bone and place the bone to the side of the plate away from the rest of the food and then cut the meat into smaller pieces for consumption.
I don’t eat meat and hope that I do not have to spit out the bones. I eat meat with the faith that I have properly re-inspected / ‘discerned’ the meat (visually and by feel when using a fork and knife to cut the meat into a smaller and edible size) and that the meat will digest inside me and eventually nourish me, give me energy, and make me stronger.
I try to be wise and eliminate the possibility of choking due to bone ridden meat.
I try to be wise and discerning to eliminate the possibilities of choking out the Spirit of God “pneuma” (where we get our word pneumatics from) due to bone ridden bible teachings.
Thank you. I’ve been saying this for years. That is why I am calling for a New Type of Faith Teacher–someone who will cut away the meat for us and then throw away the bones. WHY aren’t our so-called evangelists and leaders doing this for us? Huh?
Very simple, they cut the meat from around the bone and eat the meat. Nobody ever tries to swallow the bone.
That works when the bones are visible. However, small bones can hide in the meat (fish is especially prone to this) to where you don’t notice them until your tooth crunches on one the butcher/cook missed or (with fish) your throat gets stabbed from the inside.
Frequent Commenter Ken:
That is true about missed bones. However, I thought about this article and this thought came into mind
When I ate a piece of meat that had a hidden bone. I did not try to seperate the meat with my teeth and tongue to swallow the meat and spit out the bone.
I spit out BOTH the meat and the bone.
It reminds me of what i was taught in school concerning logic in a true/false test.
If part of the statement is false, the entire statement is false.
Therefore, If part of the theology is false, then the entire theology is false.
Neil:
Great observation.
This happened to me yesterday eating a chicken breast where I failed to get part of a little tiny bone out of the meat and what did I do?
I spat out BOTH the meat and the bone and left it at that. I did not try to seperate the meat from the bone and try to re-eat the meat I previously spat out.
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