They serve shrimp and lobster. Eating shrimp and lobster is a sin; a downright abomination! - along the same lines as homosexuality, according to the bible. Leviticus 11:9-12 clearly states:
"whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them ye shall eat.
And all that have not fins and scales in the seas... they shall be an abomination unto you.
They shall be even an abomination unto you; Ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination"
Is this another fine example of the pick-and-choose bible-based morality?
2006-10-14 06:10:49 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hehehehe. Why do Christians believe in God? Cuz their Mommy and Daddy told them to.
2006-10-14 06:15:35 · answer #1 · answered by readmywritings 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
You stopped short. If you read the complete situation, you will find out that while God's people were not to eat these, they were permitted to SELL them to the heathens. Nowhere does it say that God's people were to have homosexual relations with the heathens. And God did not permit homosexual relations even among the heathens, so He destroyed Sodom (from which the modern term "sodomy" = homosexuality, comes). Why are you trying to defend homosexuality using the Bible? Listen, if YOU want to practise that type of lifestyle, that's your right but understand that both the New and Old Testaments categorically condemns such a practice. And for your information, there are SOME Christians who follow the Biblical dietary laws FROM A MODERN SCIENTIFIC POINT-OF-VIEW. Would such a Christian stop you from eating lobsters? No, but they will definitely stop you from feeding lobsters to their children. Do you insist that you have a right to feed their children lobsters? Just like how you want to teach homosexuality and evolution to my children?
2016-05-22 01:37:50 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
...Maybe I'd worry about it if I were an orthodox Jew. Since I am not, and since Jesus declared all foods clean, what's the problem? The problem is with your interpretation. Observe:
Mark 7: 18-19
18 And He said to them, "Are you so lacking in understanding also? Do you not understand that whatever goes into the man from outside cannot defile him,
19 because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and is eliminated?" (Thus He declared all foods clean.)
...Also see this in Acts 10:
10 But he became hungry and was desiring to eat; but while they were making preparations, he fell into a trance;
11 and he saw the sky opened up, and an object like a great sheet coming down, lowered by four corners to the ground,
12 and there were in it all kinds of four-footed animals and crawling creatures of the earth and birds of the air.
13 A voice came to him, "Get up, Peter, kill and eat!"
14 But Peter said, "By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything unholy and unclean."
15 Again a voice came to him a second time, "What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy."
...I do wish you a blessed eternity. I strongly urge you to trust in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, while you have time.
2006-10-14 06:24:12 · answer #3 · answered by carson123 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you know...this very thing weighed on me recently because I am convinced that the cause of cancer lies in something we eat...so I went to the Bible and looked up those scriptures concerning food, and i was unaware of some of those things were bad! like pork! that is my favorite meat! since, I have cut down my intake to almost none, but it is hard and i am still working on it.
I think alot of Christians might be unaware, like I was, or some don't think the O. T. pertains to them, and yes, some people are just hypocrites.
too bad your attitude is so sour...people could learn from you if you weren't so nasty
and FYI, people often mistake Christians as perfect- that was Jesus, not us... we are saved sinners
for the scripture quoters on here, Leviticus 11:1 1 Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them, ( God said it!) 7 and the swine, though it divides the hoof, having cloven hooves, yet does not chew the cud, is unclean to you.
Revelation 22:19
19And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Mark 7:18 The. word "defile" as Jesus uses it in this passage is from the root of the Greek word koinos. It has to do with the spiritual defilement of the heart, not the physical defilement of the flesh. Jesus explains what He means by pointing out the obvious: "Do you not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without enters into the man, it cannot make him unholy; because it enters not into his heart" (verses 18, 19).Under the new covenant,eating pork does not cut anyone off from God
2006-10-14 06:28:31 · answer #4 · answered by kimandchris2 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
First of all we are no longer under the old covenant we are saved by Grace. Thank God...As far as the food that we eat refer to Mark 7:18-23 Don't you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him unclean? For it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body. In saying this Jesus declared ALL foods clean. He went on to say What comes out of a man is what makes him unclean.
2006-10-14 06:34:38 · answer #5 · answered by sassy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes satan I think you made your point well. Everything is a contadiciton, not just the bible, but the world itself. I think we just have to choose what contradiction we want to believe in. I guess that's why I choose myself, and not what others choose for me.
So if this is just a hint of your own beliefs then can you fire the grill up, because there will be one more joining you for dinner Oh and I like my meat rare, not charcoaled.
2006-10-14 06:24:24 · answer #6 · answered by fryedaddy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wrong Covenant!!! By the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in God's Sight. Romans 3
Love, Damon
2006-10-14 06:14:06 · answer #7 · answered by PowerfulProphet 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
o dear you will go back to mosses day God showed petter that no food is a sin if we eat it with the right heart acts 10 I think
9About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. 10He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. 11He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. 12It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles of the earth and birds of the air. 13Then a voice told him, "Get up, Peter. Kill and eat."
14"Surely not, Lord!" Peter replied. "I have never eaten anything impure or unclean."
15The voice spoke to him a second time, "Do not call anything impure that God has made clean."
16This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.
17While Peter was wondering about the meaning of the vision, the men sent by Cornelius found out where Simon's house was and stopped at the gate. 18They called out, asking if Simon who was known as Peter was staying there.
19While Peter was still thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Simon, three[a] men are looking for you. 20So get up and go downstairs. Do not hesitate to go with them, for I have sent them."
2006-10-14 06:17:37 · answer #8 · answered by Sam's 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Was an abomination to Israel, not God.
Ti 4:3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
1Ti 4:4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
1Ti 4:5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer
2006-10-14 06:14:07 · answer #9 · answered by Southern Apostolic 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
romans 3
20Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin
Righteousness Through Faith
21But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. 22This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, 23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
2006-10-14 06:17:48 · answer #10 · answered by td3nnis 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
NO, put that bible down and live. giveitupnow 1:1-10
2006-10-14 06:15:14 · answer #11 · answered by kramaster 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋