will eating shrimp send me to hell?

Question

"The Bible is rather clear that homosexuality is an "abomination," as stated in Leviticus 18:22, just a few lines below the edict in Leviticus 11:10-12 stating that eating shrimp is an abomination."

Answer 1

Just to be on the safe side stay well clear of homosexual shrimp.

Answer 2

NO...

Ephesians 2:15 Through his body on the cross, Christ put an END to the LAW WITH ALL ITS COMMANDS AND RULES. He wanted to create one new group of people out of the two. He wanted to make peace between them.

Colossians 2:14 He wiped out the written Law with its rules. The Law was against us. It opposed us. He took it away and nailed it to the cross.

Galatians 2:16 ...No one can be made right with God by obeying the law.

Galatians 2:21 ...What if a person could become right with God by obeying the law? Then Christ died for nothing!

Galatians 5:4 Some of you are trying to be made right with God by obeying the law. You have been separated from Christ. You have fallen away from God’s grace... The ONLY verse that talks about falling from grace, and they did it by trying to follow the law!

Jesus said he didn’t come to destroy the law, but to fulfill it. (Matt 5:17) The effect was the same. Once fulfilled it was no longer in effect. The very next verse, Matthew 5:18, looks forward to the time when the law would be set aside. "...Not even the smallest stroke of a pen will disappear from the Law UNTIL EVERYTHING IS COMPLETED." IF the law were intended to be permanent, the "UNTIL..." clause would be meaningless.

On the cross, Jesus' last recorded saying, "It is finished," is an important milestone. Because of Jesus life, Satan had been defeated. The law was finished and would no longer stand between God and mankind.

The 10 commandments along with the rest of the law ("commands and rules" from Ephesians 2:15) were "set aside" when they were fulfilled or completed at Jesus' resurrection. We are no longer bound by that law.

Answer 3

The designations "clean" and "unclean" were used to define the kind of animals the Israelites could and could not eat. There were several reasons for this restricted diet: (1) to ensure the health of the nation. The forbidden foods were usually scavenging animals that fed on dead animals; thus disease could be transmitted through them. (2) To visibly distinguish Israel from other nations. The pig, for example, was a common sacrifice of pagan religions. (3) To avoid objectionable associations. The creatures that move about on the ground, for example, were reminiscent of serpents, which often symbolized sin.

Several abominations, or wicked actions, are listed in Leviticus 18...
(1) having sexual relations with close relatives (2) committing adultery, (3) offering children as sacrifices, (4) having homosexual relations, and (5) having sexual relations with animals.

These practices were common in pagan religions and cultures, and it is easy to see why God dealt harshly with those who began to follow them. Such practices lead to disease, deformity, and death. They disrupt family life and society and reveal a low regard for the value of oneself and of others. Society today takes some of these practices lightly, even trying to make them acceptable. But they are still sins in God's eyes. If you consider them acceptable, you are not judging by God's standards.

Answer 4

I've been taught (as a non-denominational Christian) that all those many, many laws in Leviticus (and other parts of the Old Testament) were to be followed by the Believers who lived before Jesus' death. Once He was crucified, his death freed us from those strict laws. We also don't have to make animal sacrifices anymore. But the whole subject of Old Testament laws is pretty controversial, it really comes down to your own personal beliefs. A good resource would be your pastor or minister, etc.

Answer 5

This question come up all of the time. Jesus, Peter & Paul all clarified that under the New Testament, God does not care what you eat anymore, because the symbolic kosher laws have been done away with. However, God still cares about who you sleep with (Acts 10 & 11, 15). I won't go into the theological reasons for this, but you seem to be ignorant of the difference between the Old Testament & the New.

-------------------------------------------
Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, "Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. Nothing outside a man can make him 'unclean' by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him 'unclean.' "

After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable. "Are you so dull?" he asked. "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: "What comes out of a man is what makes him 'unclean.' For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and make a man 'unclean.' "
~Mark 7:14-23 (NIV)

======edit====

It is interesting to see that all of the people who gave thoughtful, well researched answers got the thunbs down. I guess that you (or someone) really didn't want a serious answer.

Answer 6

The consensus of the Christians seems to be "if your not Jewish the old laws.., in fact, the Old Testament doesn't apply"

But they still think the 10 commandments are some sort of brilliant list and homosexuality is a mortal sin.

Contradictory hypocrites

Answer 7

Anything that takes on nature's cleaners are considered dirty to eat. Shrimps like clamps are considered scavengers of the sea for they all feed on the what was washed away to the shore. Like pigs who eat anything on sight including carcasses of dead animals. They have no way of protecting people from what poisons they will get from eating those so they decided to make it forbidden to be eaten. Believers would only listen to the medicine men at the same was their spiritual man.

Answer 8

Nope. Those dietary laws apply only to Jews, and even for Jews the punishment is not hell. There is no hell in Judaism, only a short period of cleansing similar to the Catholic purgatory!
.

Answer 9

Naw,
Mark 7:18-20
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.)
20 And He was saying, "That which proceeds out of the man, that is what defiles the man.

Answer 10

Of course not. We can eat any food but shrimp and pork contain a lot of toxicity and can make you susceptible for getting sick. God was just trying to make sure the Jews stayed healthy.