There are so many examples of what unclean meats can do to us. Take salmonella; just before Christmas, there were warnings on television about Christmas ham and such sea food as prawns, shrimps, oysters and so on left on your plate for too long, and when you eat them you get salmonella. Every year, according to the statistics quoted, 5000 Australians die from salmonella during this time of the year, and many thousands more get very ill. What does God say? Don’t eat that stuff! What does everybody – including the churches – say? Go ahead and eat it, it won’t hurt you!

When you delve into the history books, you will come across the great plagues that swept Europe and other parts of the earth from time to time. Many millions of people died, yet those who were not affected by those horrible plagues were groups of people – such as Jews – who did not eat unclean meats.

Only a few decades ago, some tribes in southern Africa began to eat what were called Green Monkeys who are natural carriers of the aids virus. Guess what, that’s where the aids epidemic started, in southern Africa, and it has spread throughout much of the world since, killing many millions of people – including innocent children – in a slow, agonising death every year. Did you read that the eating of unclean meats also goes hand in hand with sexual immorality? The aids virus is mainly spread among people who live immoral lives, and many innocent children are born with that horrible disease as a consequence. What did God say? Don’t eat unclean animals – and monkeys are included – and don’t be sexually immoral. What do people say? We eat what we like to eat, and our immorality is nobody’s business. And then they die from dreadful diseases.

We have all heard about – and some of us have suffered from – various strains of what is called Asian flu. Did you catch it on the news media? All those types of flu were traced to the pig farms in southern China, and so was the bird flu that had the medical authorities all over the world worried.

Much of what I am writing about does not often get a lot of publicity, but keep listening, and keep your eyes open, and you will pick up such examples from time to time.

I could have mentioned all of the above in the article I wrote, but I limited it to what God’s Word, the Bible, has to say about it. Even that should have served as a fair warning.

(Reply to an email response to the above article. By Ernie Klassek).

My reply is perhaps an good lead-in to this subject, as we have been working on this film for some time:

Great to hear from you and thanks for your comments.

We have a film transcript on the subject of the Trinity that we’ll soon be filming — and hopefully we’ll be able to simplify the issues and propose a careful, Biblically-correct understanding on this subject.

Proponents of the Trinity doctrine admit that it is the most difficult doctrine to prove from the Bible alone, and yet it is usually stated as the primary doctrine in many Christian creeds and faith statements!

I think the safest path in this 1600 year old discussion is to lean heavily on what we do understand through the words of Jesus, and the understanding of the early Christian church as found in the writings of the apostles. John, for example in 1 John 1:3 summarises the oneness of our relationship with God: “that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.”

[To attempt to go beyond what is explicity stated in the scriptures is indeed a dangerous path, and we look forward to exploring this intriguing subject in a series of films the months ahead. I appreciate my friend writing and asking for answers].

A long time friend of mine recently noted that much of this material has been discussed and debated for some 2000 years, and that they had no desire to “enter the fray” – preferring to simply turn a blind eye to it all.

Yet, there are a few sources worth reading. Ronald Dart make several excellent points in his article discussing the characteristics of the Holy Spirit in both the Old and New Testaments, at http://www.borntowin.net/personals_show_panel_with_endnotes.aspx?id=52

There’s quite a lot of reading available on the internet on the subject.
http://www.2001translation.com/Trinity.html
http://www.revelations.org.za/WrongTrinity.htm
http://cfmin.wordpress.com/2007/04/24/trinity-part-05-scriptures-that-are-used-to-support-the-trinity-doctrine/
http://www.ucg.org.au/transcripts/trinity.asp
http://www.ucg.org/papers/NatureofGod.pdf
http://www.gnmagazine.org/booklets/WG/holyspirit.htm

The reoccurring assertion in many of these articles is that the triune nature of God is not supported in scripture, but was added later, as formalised by Constantine.