Help me settle a bet. My freind feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination of God as stated in Lev. 11:10, that it is lesser of an abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you help us settle this matter? We want to be in full compliance with the Bible.
2007-01-26 15:00:06 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Gay oyster bars must make God get all bent out of shape.
2007-01-26 15:23:54 · answer #1 · answered by Mr. NoneofYourbusiness 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Saint Paul affirmed in the New Testament the abominable acts of adultery and in particular the acts of homosexuality. Jesus, Saint Paul, and other New Covenant people loosen the dietary restrictions of the Old Covenant. Jesus affirmed the Ten Commandments.
So the abomination of certain acts were retained by Jesus the Christ, but have a shellfish. That is allowed by Christians and the Bible.
Your point is mute. First read and know the Bible. Know what a Christian means as well. A follower of Jesus Christ.
2007-01-26 15:23:23 · answer #2 · answered by Lives7 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Many regulations, regs, and abominations from the bible had technology at their center, surprisingly nutritional ones. there is not any longer some thing incorrect with shellfish that's correct cultivated and prepared, clone of with pork. The timber dishes are literally no longer the challenge they were once you had to apply separate ones for different forms of ingredients, etc. yet custom is custom, and non secular traditions are a lot less probable to settle for a logical argument. If I agreed that homosexuality become an abomination, i might want to say that one it the winner because food is a non-starter. yet i do not, so that you would possibly want to me you both lose.
2016-12-03 02:33:09 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The original Torah states that eating shellfish is an abomination the same as eating pork, and yes, worse than homosexuality because homosexuality itself is not illegal per the Torah. The verse in Leviticus references sodomy and says nothing about the love between a man and another man--that itself is a man-made interpretation. Sodomy and eating shellfish are both abominations in G-d's eyes according to His scripture, but homosexuality (a man's love for another man) is not. G-d made homosexuals too, no?
2007-01-26 16:34:29 · answer #4 · answered by LadySuri 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Thank Goddess I'm a pagan! Why would eating shellfish be an abomination? That's a bit harsh even for the Christian God. Sorry, I know this isn't really an answer to your question. I would guess that an abomination is an abomination and that God doesn't rate abominations -- they are all bad.
2007-01-26 15:15:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
IMO ~ a lot of rules and regulations made in the old testament (even some in the new testament) were put in writing as abominations due to things being unclean. In other words, infections, diseases, etc. I would think that you really should use your own judgement in your interpretation of this, and if you think you will go to Hell for eating shellfish (no joke I don't know one way or another) than you really should not eat it. If you think it was a guideline to protect people from all of the possible diseases that shellfish can carry, then be honest with yourself and God, and I'm sure that He'll understand.
2007-01-26 15:06:43 · answer #6 · answered by kswildangel 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
First of all, remember that "THE BIBLE" is no such thing, there are dozens of versions. King James had his version written so that he could keep the people under his control. The Genoa bible is an older version. Old Testament vs. new testament? What difference if both are written by men collected into a book by men and translated by men from old languages that we do not speak. Why didn't GOD write in English so we could understand it?
Look at alternative viewpoints. Keep an open mind. http://www.atheist.org is a good place to start. No dues, no collection plates, no tithes. Just information about why God is a myth.
2007-01-26 15:19:49 · answer #7 · answered by Bob 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
notice what John the baptist ATE! locusts. the same kind of abomination as that of eating unclean flesh.
agreed it is a lesser abomination. while the Lord appeared to Peter in a vision/trance on the rooftop Jesus himself said that HE has made all things clean, even when peter refused to eat the unclean things. Homsosexuality was not changed from a sin of abomination but the unclean food was.
2007-01-26 15:11:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I've questioned this before and I found my answer in the New Testament. II Timothy Chapter 4 Verses3-5.
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.
2007-01-26 15:32:25 · answer #9 · answered by qnsclover 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I found this difficult to swallow myself, but all sin is the same in God's eyes. There is no sin worse than the other. The view that one sin is worse than the other is from man's point of view and not God's.
The dietary restrictions were done away with and eating shellfish is no longer considered an abomination.
2007-01-26 15:12:31 · answer #10 · answered by Justified 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Eating shellfish is five-eights abominating. Homosexuality is three-eights abominating. So it isn't a full abomination until you do both at the same time.
2007-01-26 15:13:00 · answer #11 · answered by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋