- I think this means that the mother has a certain memory of food in which she finds pleasure from the past and she is constantly trying to regain that same feeling. She demands for her food to be prepared exactly how it had been years before and to give her the same pleasure she enjoyed from eating it in the past. However, the days that she is trying to remember were days when she was not so precise about her food and she had other things in her life that were giving her pleasure. Those previous things in life that gave her pleasure kept her from being so picky about her food and made her less dependent on finding joy from "the table."
2. Why would God want "complete abstinence or unmitigated monogamy" for us?
- "Complete abstinence or unmitigated monogamy" are both good according to what the Bible says. 1 Thessalonians 4:3-4 says "For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor." God wants us to be in control of our bodies. If we can control our sinful desires and the lusts of our flesh then we are either in "complete abstinence or unmitigated monogamy." Complete abstinence would be to not engage in sexual activities at all. Unmitigated monogamy would mean to be in a complete relationship with one spouse. Hebrews 13:4 says "Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous." God would either want us to fully abstain from any sexual conduct or to be married and stay completely committed to one person. God created sex for humans to enjoy, but He created it to be used in the proper way.
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