Now Paul draws out the sweeping implication of God’s creating food and sex: The implication is that they are good. “Everything created by God is good.” It is the teaching of demons to imply that physical or material reality, in its created core, is defective. And because of this Paul says in verse 4, “nothing is to be rejected.”

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