Cheese Burgers and the Bible.?

Question

I received an email from another user recently and he was convinced that this scripture ---
Exodus 23:19 ". . .You must not boil a kid in its mother's milk."
---means that you can't eat Cheese Burgers.-- YES , he was serious.

The reasoning that there is cheese (cooking the curds of milk is used in cheese making) and meat in the same product.
So you would have meat in the cooked milk.

In this users mind this would violate this command in Exodus.


This scripture has nothing to do with Cheese Burgers.

Do you know what it is referring to ?

After 20 attempts there are only 2 correct answers.

Answer 1

Boiling a kid in its mothers milk was a pagan fertility practice of the locals, so the Israelites were forbidden to practice it, but hey had their own superstitious practices like the law in Numbers 5.

Many of the OT laws aren't logical or even moral, just like the pagan practices around them, they reflect the culture of the time.

We are lucky to live today, now that we have determined that superstitions don't make good building blocks for society or morals.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I have a friend who is a Messianic believer and she will also not eat dairy with meat.

I have read different things about the Scripture forbidding the boiling of a kid (a baby goat) in its mothers milk. Some sources indicate that it was a pagan practice and in Exodus 34, in light of the other verses forbidding pagan worship, that is very plausible.

Another possible explanation seems to be simply the fact that there are many different Scriptures encouraging kindness to animals.

For example:

A man must rescue his neighbour's donkey if it is in trouble. If you see a bird's nest and want to take the eggs you are not allowed to do so if the mother is there. The ox is not to be muzzled while it treads the grain. Leviticus 22:28 forbids the slaying of a cow or a sheep and its young on the same day.

Therefore the verse forbidding the kid to be seethed in its mother's milk could be a sentiment against the heartlessness of such a practice.

Perhaps it is all of the above?

I must say that I find it amusing that people would forbid the eating of dairy and meat together, especially in light of the fact that Abraham fed meat and dairy to God - and He ate it!

So it seems that God does not restrict Himself to the modern kosher laws Himself ;-)

Genesis 18:8 He then brought some curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared, and set these before them. While they ate, he stood near them under a tree.

God bless you!

Answer 4

Cheese Bible

Answer 5

No, that's exactly what the verse means. As other people pointed out, Jews following Kosher dietary laws do not eat cheese burgers. Some even have a Kosher Kitchen -- with a separate refrigerator, stove, and sink, like two kitchens in one -- one for meat, and one for dairy and vegetables. However, Christians do not keep Kosher. As a matter of fact, in the Epistles, Paul says that Christians don't have to follow Kosher laws anymore, because Jesus is the fulfillment of the Law. So, while Jews aren't allowed to have cheese burgers, shellfish, or pork, Christians can, according to Paul.

Answer 6

There is NO scriptural support for the Rabbinic prohibition against eating meat with dairy. Look at what our father Abraham served the three visitors in Genesis 18.8. They were served butter and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and they did eat. Beef and dairy in the same meal.

hasse_john: Why put the word Jew in quotations? Do you see us as imaginary?

The prohibition against boiling a kid in its mother's milk was a prohibition against pagan practices. Besides that, it just isn't right to cook an animal in that which was to nourish it.

There is NO biblical prohibition as to cheese burgers, so eat up in good conscience. The Rabbis are not gods, and they do not get to add to, or take away from the Torah!

Answer 7

If you ask a "Jew" he will tell you it is indeed about cheeseburgers. They even have separate dish sets, so a dish serving milk will never serve meat. In Gen 18:6 Abraham prepared what He thought was a meal including both for heavenly visitors, and wasn't corrected. Deut 14:21 is difficult, for there does not seem to be a context. Earlier in the same verse, YHVH is clarifying a distinction between believers and non-believers. My sense is that it might refer to that. I wonder if there might be a hint in the Hebrew. Sometimes a resh will be exchanged for a dagel with curious results. My Hebrew is between lame and non-existant, so I can't help there.

Answer 8

Meat and cheese is fine. But God had another view on what is proper and fitting order of matters that should be adhered to. God provide the milk of the mother to nourish the young. To use it to boil her offspring to prepare it to be eaten would be the opposite of what God had in mind when making the provision for such milk.
Sorry I was late in answering this but I have been very busy.

Answer 9

True. A Jewish friend was telling me that many kosher Jews do not eat meat products in combination with other parts of the same animal: like cheeseburgers.

Answer 10

I know that people who keep a Kosher diet do not mix dairy products with meat ever, and this has a basis in Bible scripture.