IF you keep God's laws of "clean & unclean meats".....?

Question

why do you? Is it for health reasons?
Is it because God tells us to?
Is it both?
Please don't bother to answer if you're going to tell me that it is NOT a law! I've heard it all before, and have studied this Biblically...
I only want answers from those to observe this, please. Thanks.

Does anyone really believe Christ sat down to a Lobster or Crab dinner, or roasted a Pig?? I believe we should follow His examples...It's a health law; we get to chose and take the health risks...I know that eating it does not condemn us, it's not a spiritual sin. It's a physical sin, against our own bodies. Isn't that important? Or do we get to pick and chose which things we do, or don't do?

Answer 1

To say that God didnt allow people to eat these things anciently because of no refridgeration or anything like that is absurd. If you believe that then you would have to agree that God is not all knowing. He must not have realized that one day in the future someone would invent a box to keep ice and meat in because if He did realize it then He surely He would have said "when the ice box in developed you may eat of these unclean animals".

The problem here is translation the words "tahor" and "tamei" in hebrew do not translate well in to english so they chose the words "clean" and "unclean". It is a spiritual teaching using physical things like a pig for instance. But like any other commandment, if you strip the physical part of actually doing the commandment away, and only focus on the spiritual it will eventually loose its meaning thats why the physical is so important. This would take me a while to explain but essentially the animals we are not to eat are scavengers, they devour other animals. The animals that are edible chew cud. Man was originally made to be vegetarian but when God allowed meat during the time of Noah, He chose animals that chewed cud. If we were not going to be vegetarians then at least we would only eat animals that chewed cud so we were only one step away in the chain so to speak.

I dont want to ramble but this is a huge subject that needs to be taught. There are so many other areas to cover like divided hooves and chewing cud being linked with rightly dividing the word and chewing on it until it becomes milk to feed "baby" believers in Yhwh. There is really a lot there if you study it out.

Answer 2

I just answered this. Ok one more time. I don't eat pork, catfish or any of the other host of meat that the Bible labels unclean. Most Christians however would argue Acts 10 where Peter saw a sheet of unclean animals and was told to "rise kill and eat." They all need to finish reading the story cause it really had nothing to do with meat. But even if the New Testament gave permission to eat the unclean meats and it does not then science has proven that the list of unclean animals are scanvgers anyways. And it has also been proven that a vegetarian diet is healthier (provided its done correctly.)

Answer 3

Since I became a Christian, and learned about these things, I have cut back on the unclean things. It also makes very good health sense.

Isn't it wonderful that God has taken care of His people long before medical science came along.

Answer 4

The biblical and other religious reasons for "clean and unclean" meats was an early public health measure. In hot countries various types of meat and fish go bad much quicker than others and these are the unclean meats. Pork suffered not because it went bad quicker but because in those ancient times it was frequently infected with a parasite known as the liver fluke which is very damaging to humans (as well as pigs!). With today's hygienic food processing methods and freezing etc. these ancient laws no longer have any serious function other than a ritual one.

Answer 5

I follow the health laws found in Leviticus 11 because it is a command from God and anything God command us to do it is for our own good.

Answer 6

Yup, right there in the bible.

I'm sure the original reason was to prevent people from getting sick, at least some of the rules listed in Leviticus and Deutoronomy seem to be written solely to keep the tribes from dying, e.g, eating animals who had already died (common sense really), no eating of blood (so black pudding is out of the question then), certain hooved animals, creeping things, certain birds, certain sea-creatures (shellfish for instance) and such.These rules were probably designed to stop the spread of disease.

Jesus later removes this rule from the list of Christain tabboos (I think someone here already included the actual passage).

Answer 7

Well, first of all, when Jesus came he basically told us to not concentrate on all of the nit-picky laws and instead to concentrate on God. So these laws are only observed under Judaism and usually only under stricter sects. Though they're observed because they were God's law, some of them are also for health reasons. For example, food and health practices clearly weren't as advanced back then, so it would be easy/likely to get trichonosis (sp?) from improperly handled pork.

Answer 8

I give a prayer of thanksgiving before every meal so the meats that I eat are sanctified.

1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; 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. 4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: 5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

However I avoid knowingly eating pork because I don't think that it is a healthy food to eat.

Answer 9

Well my dear, you may have studied this "Biblically" whatever that means, but you failed to look at the NEW Testament where God told Peter its not what goes into a person, its what comes out of a person. We are no longer burdened by the law, we have been freed from the law by Jesus.

Oh, please. Jesus hung out with fishermen. Sure He ate lobster and crab! Or would have if available.

Answer 10

Health reasons. However, God's laws are in tune with general well being.