Where are those verses and why would GOD say No and then changed HIS mind to say OK later if HE is all knowing? I get that question all the time and don't know how to answer it.
2006-08-29 13:21:38 · 16 answers · asked by blue_cobra_driver 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's from Acts 10 9-23 where GOd gives a vision to Peter the Apostle. Peter sees all the forbidden foods and hears a voice say Kill and eat. Peter is shocked at first. This happens three times and then:
15 The voice spoke to him a second time, "Do not call anything impure that God has made clean."
2006-08-29 13:25:33 · answer #1 · answered by Makemeaspark 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Easy. There are often good practical reasons for religious rules. Seafood is very perishable, and in the olden days there was no refrigeration, so eating seafood was dangerous - you could get food poisoning. Pork was also dangerous because pigs carried a parasite that you could catch by eating the pork. So God (or the church) had good reason to warn people against eating both these things.
Of course, they didn't have refrigeration in the New Testament either, but Jesus's way was to let people make up their own minds and take responsibility for their own actions, rather than setting up rigid rules for everything. So in the New Testament, it's up to the individual to make sure their seafood is fresh or their pork is really well cooked (which kills the parasite).
These days, we have refrigeration and pigs are tested for parasites, so it's OK to eat these things now. The bar on eating them in some religions is a matter of tradition only.
2006-08-29 13:31:43 · answer #2 · answered by Kylie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in the old testament it says not to eat shrimp... because he denominated those animals as that were not good for our health , and in no where in the new testament he says that is ok , is just that people have everything mistaken ... and if some 1 ask u again about this just tell them that before we where living under the law and now we live under the grace of Jesus Christ...read the bible and u will understand that God is the 1 that knows everything.
2006-08-29 13:29:54 · answer #3 · answered by JP 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Galatians 3:24 Remember The Law was done away with
Romans 10:4 Romans 6:14 .Now we have The Law of The Christ Galatians 6:2. Matthew 22:36-40. Namely Love.
So., The Law really led God's people to Christ.Now we live by Bible principles.
2006-08-29 13:33:50 · answer #4 · answered by Truth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All the Mosaic laws of the Old Testament still apply to the Jews. Jesus very specifically said that He did not come to do away with the Old Testament. But these restrictions do not apply to Christians. The story in Acts about Peter is not about food. It is an illustration to Peter that the good news of the Gospel is to be shared with non-Jews
2006-08-29 13:30:26 · answer #5 · answered by Paul Q 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The account your referring to is at Acts 10:10-16 where Peter had a vision of the "unclean animals." When Jesus was on earth he mainly witnessed to the Jews. After Jesus' death, provisions were being opened to the gentiles or non Jews to be part of a New nation of Spiritual Israel that accepted Christ. The whole account not only changed his views about food but helped him to appreciate that people who were of another race or so called "unclean" were acceptable to God.- Acts 10:28. The same chapter of the vision happens to mention the first Gentile to be baptized who is Cornelius. He was no longer under the Mosaic Law which Jehovah gave for his earthly Israelites nor the rest of them.-Romans 10:4. Since Jesus sacrificed himself for our sins we now have an approved relationship with God which we benefit from.
2006-08-29 15:10:03 · answer #6 · answered by Joseph U 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ROFLMAO
NO
Some like to use Acts 10:9-23 to show It has!
Peter has a vision, he see a cloth lowered, in it are all kinds of flesh your not to eat, a voice says Peter Kill and eat!
Peter refuses almost in a rebuke of the voice.
The voice says do not call unclean what God has cleaned, and the cloth is removed.
This is done 3 times!
1. it was a vision peter could not kill and eat
2. the voice did not say this flesh was clean
3. the vision was to teach that Gentiles were clean enough to include the ministry
4. God did not change the LAW
2006-08-29 14:41:56 · answer #7 · answered by Grandreal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These are parts of the bible that I don't agree with. I think that they adjusted laws of this nature to facilitate the situation at the time. Pigs are a hearty animal that takes up a great deal of resources to give relatively little meat. Being that the Middle East does not have much arable land I can see why they would prohibit eating it.
Likewise cows for Hindu. A cow gives milk and even its feces can be used for fuel. It was in that societies best interests to enact a religious prohibition on killing them.
2006-08-29 13:28:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you read the passage from Acts in context you will see that it has nothing to do with food. It was a vision from God to Peter that he must also reach out to 'impure pagans'. It is still against God to eat any sort of shellfish or pork for that matter.
2016-03-27 00:40:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you are talking about is old testament law. When Christ died a lot of the laws died to. The 10 Commandments are still in force. The rules about what we can eat are old Jewish law & only prople follow the old laws from the old testement follow this law.The Jews only believe in the old testement & do not believe Jesus is the one to save the world. They only believe he was a good man that did mircules.
2006-08-29 13:38:00 · answer #10 · answered by BUTCH 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋