2006-11-09 12:30:15 · 17 answers · asked by dark prince 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In the OT this is true (actually I do not remember it saying anything about shellfish..but whatever..) Once Jesus said it is not what goes into your mouth that makes you unclean , but what comes OUT of your mouth can be considered unclean so be careful in your words. Most Adventists are vegetarians.
2006-11-09 12:34:38 · answer #1 · answered by Sunspot Baby 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, God prohibited the eating of these things and nowhere in the Bible does it say that this instruction was done away with. Also nowhere in the Bible does it say that this is a Jewish law. The fact is , if you truly believe that God created our bodies, then oyu have to recognize the He would be the ultimate authority on what should and should not go into our bodies- He ceated the fuel and nourishment just for our bodies and there are some things that were just not meant for food, pork and shellfish being some of those things.
It is said that better methods of refrigeration and preservation make these things okay now , but that is not so- pigs sweat internally, making their meat toxic and toxic to our bodies, in the long run it is just not good for you, shellfish are generally scavengers eating the waste products of other animals- making their meat toxic and toxic to our bodies also. Our bodies would be MUCH healthier if we ate the things that God intended for us to eat and avoided what was not meant for food.
God's laws are not an arbitrary pointless list of rules and they are not meant for the Jews- they were never intended to bring salvation- His laws are instructions for the saved to live a life set apart, sanctified, Holy , healthy and blessed.
2006-11-09 12:46:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes. According to the Levitical Law. The point is that swine and shellfish are filthy and you are what you eat. Why would anyone, regardless of religious belief, want to put waste back into their system?
Shellfish filter the "crap" from the ocean where we dump all of ours. Pigs will eat their sick and dying young along with a myriad of filthy things. It makes good sense and God recommended it all along.
2006-11-09 12:36:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jews and Muslims Don't eat pork....as a direct prohibition from god.
Muslims even believe that Christians shouldn't eat Pork as it was supposedly stated in the Holy Bible..but later changed.
2006-11-09 12:34:16 · answer #4 · answered by karroooom 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is a fictional character from the mythology of the classic middle East - it has under no circumstances suggested something, by way of fact it is not any longer surely actual. The nutritional regulations have been almost surely the consequence of well being-proper observations. purple Tides reason shellfish to be poisonous, or maybe deadly, to consume, and beef ought to hold trichninosis. keeping off those issues made sense once you have been coping with an illiterate determination of peasants and barbarians.
2016-12-14 04:34:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello!
Good question! and the answer is: yes; God told us what animals are healthy and unhealthy to eat. He calls them "clean" and "unclean". You may read Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14.
Where is the first time in the Bible that we find these two groups: clean and unclean animals?
In the book of Genesis, when God told Moses to introduce in the ark the animals, He told him that from the clean animals there should be seven animals, while from the unclean animals there should be just two -- "Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth." (Genesis 7:2,3). (You may read the story of the flood in Genesis chapters 6, 7, 8, and 9).
God had commanded the Jews not to use unclean animals for sacrifices. However, this issue about clean and unclean animals goes beyond than a ceremonial law. It's a health law. God created everything --including the animals--, and He knows best than anyone which ones are healthy and which ones are not. When God talked about clean and unclean animals in the book of Genesis, there were not Jews yet. So this is not for Jews only, but for every human being (after all, if eating pork --for example-- harms the Jews, it also harms us; we're all humans).
For more information, please visit:
http://www.amazingfacts.org/media/radio/question_archive.asp?tName=Health
You may check out this video too:
"God's Free Health Plan"
http://www.amazingfacts.org/resources/video/NRVideo/NR13.asx
(You may go to the follwing website, seek "God's Free Health Plan", and open the lesson given there: http://www.amazingfacts.org/items/study_guides.asp?tTitle=New%20Revelation; you may watch the other videos too, highly recommended).
I've learned that even doctors and scientists do not approve eating pork because it's naturally harmful for health. Science has been discovering what the Bible has already revealed for thousands of years!
You may e-mail me too. We can talk if you want to, there are more things I'd like to share with you.
Remember, God wants you to be happy, and has given you a perfect health manual in His Word. You'll be amazed to discover God's health plan for your life!
God bless you!
2006-11-12 15:52:47 · answer #6 · answered by Cachanilla 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most modern Christians say that Jesus fulfilled the law, so you don't have to obey it any longer. Hey, didn't God say, "I am the same yesterday, today and forever?" When did he change??
I don't remember Jesus or Jehovah saying anything like, "You remember all those laws, the ones I told you I'd kill you if you broke them? Well, that's okay. I don't care about all that any more. You go ahead... Eat whatever you want, forget about the Sabbath (Saturday), keep graven images (pictures, statues), break all those hundreds of other laws... Whatever! It's okay by me!"
I don't remember reading that. Can some Christian point me to that passage?
If you're going to take the mythology of the Bible to heart, and believe it literally, seems like you gotta take the whole thing or nothing at all, and not make things up when what it says is too inconvenient. No?
2006-11-09 12:46:29 · answer #7 · answered by Don P 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you wish to stay under the Law of Moses then they will have to keep all 639 statutes,not just one or two.
Collosians 2:16 says "Don't let anyone criticize you on what you eat or drink,or what day you keep the Sabbath...they were all shadows fulfilled by Christ".
Jesus said "nothing is unclean unto itself,it goes in and passes out.It's what comes out the mouth that defiles a man..."
Praise the Lord and pass the pork chops and shrimp scampi!!
2006-11-09 12:41:21 · answer #8 · answered by AngelsFan 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes. in the book Leviticus (the book of laws) it specifically says that any fish that has both fins and scales is good to eat but anything else in the sea is forbidden. and the animals of the lad must have hooves and eat the cud of the earth anything that does not have both are forbidden. pigs don't eat the cud of the earth.
2006-11-09 12:38:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Under Judeo-Christian laws it is. So put down that crab leg!
Some christians say they're allowed to eat it under the new law covenant, but others say christ wasn't here to change laws, but rather raffirm them and teach new laws in addition to the old.
So it comes down to what you believe.
~Morg~
(Who eats everything slower than her that sounds even remotely tasty...)
2006-11-09 12:36:04 · answer #10 · answered by morgorond 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋