Tuesday, October 14, 2014

What God Hath Cleansed…Marijuana Speech #3

Speech to the Josephine County Commissioners, 06/3/09.

Over the last two meetings, I introduced A Resolution Regarding Marijuana.  The first reason given was, “WHEREAS the people of Josephine County find that they have a natural right to every seed-bearing herb, recognized in Genesis Chapter 1, as well as by Jesus and the apostles Peter and Paul;…”  I will explain this point.
In Genesis 1:29, right after God creates man and woman in his own image, it tells us,  “And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.”  Many plants are poisonous, but God left that for us to figure out.
In Chapter 2, the Lord God forbids Adam and Eve to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, in the midst of the garden he had built for them, but cannabis is not a tree.
In Exodus, Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the Lord God gave the people of Israel, through Moses, over 600 laws.  None of them deal with the use of any herb, though there are many regulations regarding what animals one may eat, and how to prepare them.
Jesus had nothing to say regarding herbs.  Cannabis was not an issue, though it was
well-known in the Middle East.  Regarding what one ingests in general, when the Pharisees asked Jesus why he and his disciples ate with unwashed hands, “He answered and said to them, ‘Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: This people honors me with their lips, / But their heart is far from me,/ And in vain they worship me,/ Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”  (Mark 7:6,7)  He went on to say, Hear me everyone, and understand:   There is nothing that enters a man from outside which can defile him; but the things which come out of him, those are the things that defile a man.  If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!”  Mark 7:14-16
          After Jesus was executed by the Romans as the King of the Jews, Peter had a dream in which God lowered a sheet with all manner of animals within it, and said, “Rise Peter, kill and eat.” 
But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.” 
And God said, “What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.” Acts 10:11-16.
Jesus freed us from the taboos of Mosaic Law, giving us six simple commandments in place of 600.  He would not be pleased at new taboos, recent traditions of men, supplanting the few and simple laws of God.
Three minutes cannot begin to do justice to the Biblical view of prohibitions.  I will continue next week with the civil disobedience of Jesus, Peter and Paul and the limits of civil authority.


Rycke Brown, Natural Gardener         541-955-9040         rycke@gardener.com

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