The bible says it's a sin to eat shellfish (Leviticus 11:12,Deuteronomy 14:10). What's your take on this?

Question

And what if you believe everything in the bible is true?

Answer 1

It doesn't call it a "sin" but rather it calls it "unclean." Now to me it shows that God is interested in your health. If the Lord should speak to us today, I'm sure that He'd speak to us a lot about junk foods.

There are certain types of fish that should not be eaten. We do know that the shellfish during certain months of the year are deadly poisonous. And so God, again, is just protecting the people with these laws in regards to these things that are in the water.

Those foods that God disallowed for food there was a health reason behind the disallowing of each food.

Answer 2

The health laws you read are common-sense to make you as healthy as you can be. Some animals are put on earth to clean up the garbage and bacteria, kinda like natures dustbuster; why would you want to ingest something that eats crap? Pigs are another example; they have no sweat glands, and therefore every single bit of bacteria they come in contact with stays in their fat right up until they die. If you take ill with some cancers, pork is the first meat you will have stricken from your diet.
These foods simply aren't good for you.
If you eat them, its not a sin to death, but its just a sin to the health of your body, which may I remind you is quite perishable.
For those that feel these are not applicable because they are old testament writings, I submit to you that unless the human body has radically been redesigned since then, they are still unhealthy to the body. period.
God not only knows what is best for the bodies that He created, but He also has told us how to farm properly; how to get the best in crops, most plentiful; but we don't choose to listen to that advice, either.
I live in whats farm country in Pennsylvania;
We have many, many amish farms here.
Even when weather factors have destroyed so many other farms in this area in the past, the amish, using the farming methods from the Bible, always thrive, and always have the best crops, even when other farms fail miserably. Thats a fact, well-known to anyone who lives around here.
If I were you, I wouldn't be too quick to disregard some of those messages. Its just pure common sense, and best of all, it works.

Answer 3

Well believe I'm wrong or crazy if it makes you feel better . ..but through my own experience and relationship with God, I have found the shellfishes are too tired to be eaten; they're resting. Plus if you want to live in a world without the taste of deodorant in your mouth, crabmeat makes your armpits stink. Clams have really bad personalities you don't want to get possessed with. Shrimp eat feces that's just gross and I don't feel/perceive they are meant to be eaten

What bothers me (quite a bit) is that the whys are not given, yet people accept it, as if the Holocaust never happened! Ask why and you'll either get ignored or experience hostility-it makes no sense. Someone must have removed large portions of the sacred texts-but for what purpose?

As long as you are full of other meats, you might not notice the negative effect of shellfish. I've been mostly vegetarian since 1993-when the meat clears out of your system you begin to perceive the negative effects of what you've eaten even if it was YEARS ago

Answer 4

I say for those go around preaching about how bad gays are should actually follow the other stuff in the Bible, including what was said about about eating seafood being a sin. On the other hand, wasn't that only mention in the Old Testament, which everyone was suppose to be freed from?

Answer 5

This was part of the Law Covenant at the time. When Jesus died, he fulfilled the Law Covenant and Christians were no longer under the law and could eat shellfish if they choose to do so.
Yes everything in the bible is true

Answer 6

That is a law from the first part of the Bible. Shellfish are like the oceans vacuum cleaner so they would have been very risky for ppl from a health stand point.
In the later part of the Bible we see that GOD let down a sheet with many kinds of "animals" on it and told Peter to rise and eat. He refused declaring the animals to be "unclean" to which GOD replied, " Do not call what I have made clean, unclean."

Answer 7

There was good reason a time without refrigeration to follow the food laws in Leviticus. I read the bible as book of parables and not exact literal translation.

King James Version: 4 Kings (2 Kings) Chapter 9-
"Cursed is he who pisseth against the wall."
Does this passage mean that Ozzy Osborn's going to hell from pissing on the Alamo?

Answer 8

Yup! It's an Old Testamnet sin, for those who are under the law. Christians are NOT under the laws of Moses, IF they're being led of love. (Romans Chapter 8)
But anyway, shellfish are pretty yucchy! Don'tcha think? You can get all sorts of diseases from them! That's why God said don't eat 'em in the first place, I guess.- and that was BEFORE industrial pollution-
--Sionarra

Answer 9

matthew 15:11 - It is not what enters into the mouth that defiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man."
Gal 3:24-25 - 24So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith. 25Now that faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the law.

We are no longer bound to the Levitical laws, its not a sin to eat shellfish but God had good reasons, healthwise it is best to stay away from shellfish, they are bottom feeders. Its beneficial to eat kosher.

Answer 10

This was stated back in the Old Testement. Maybe back then, it was more harmful to eat certain foods, because they did not have the ability to cook them properly.

So, maybe the mind of man decided it would be easiest to declare it a sin to eat such foods.

This, of course, shows the corruption of the Bible, by the mind of man. However, it also shows how times have evolved since then, and that the truly knowledgable mind, today, will understand these facts as being outdated.