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Originally posted by mojo2012
Was the law of Unclean and Clean meats ever abolished later on in the Bible?
I looked at Act Chapter 10 and really couldn't decide whether or not they were.
Daniel 1:11-16
Daniel then said to the guard whom the chief official had appointed over him: "Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink. Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who eat the royal food, and treat your servants in accordance with what you see." So he agreed to this and tested them for ten days. At the end of the ten days they looked healthier and better nourished than any of the young men who ate the royal food. So the guard took away their meat and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables instead.
It's pretty clear Daniel was a vegetarian. So why not Jesus? The prophesy in Isaiah 7:15 said he would eat butter and honey (rather than meat) to be able to know the difference between good and evil. If Jesus ate meat, then he does not fit the Messianic prophesy of the Jews. Nowhere in the bible does it ever mention Jesus eating meat. In the King James translation, there are a few verses that mention Jesus eating meat, but in those cases, meat is translated from the Greek word "Broma" which literally means "food". All other translations of those same exact verses do not use the word "meat", rather they say Jesus sat down and ate "food".
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Originally posted by JesuitGarlic
reply to post by mojo2012
Dietary health practices are more recommendations for how to keep your temple in the best shape. Considering that we are asked to keep our body well not only because it is the temple of the Holy Spirit but to be in good shape to do service and God's plans for our lives then you can see how what you eat is linked to if you are following Jesus' ways. I am from the Adventist church and it is taught to not eat the unclean meats. The Adventist church also has a particular health/diet message that would be in-line with the diet we hear of practiced in Daniel chapter 1 which is a diet SDAs promote (since late 1800's) but is not compulsory or anything like that. This particular diet of Daniel and the SDA has been confirmed to the the healthiest in existence according to the largest study every conducted on diet called the China Study finished in 2005. If you look up information on topics like 'blues zones' you will find that SDAs are considered the longest living 'culture' in the whole world, living 10 years longer than the average.
Originally posted by mojo2012
Was the law of Unclean and Clean meats ever abolished later on in the Bible?
I looked at Act Chapter 10 and really couldn't decide whether or not they were.
You have Acts 9:9-19, which is Peter's dream wherein the Lord tells him that what God cleansed is good to eat.
The banana belongs to the plants of the ancients and has been given God-like powers in many diverse cultures. These "old-world" plants are thought to have originated in India and played an important role in ancient Egypt and Assyria as early as 1100 BC.
For the early Hawaiians, the banana tree was the embodiment of the God Kanaloa who came from Tahiti and was himself a banana planter and it is said that the folk of Mu, the aboriginal, mythological race that inhabited the islands long before the Polynesians arrived, already were avid banana munchers.
The Hawaiians created at least 50 different varieties out of these original plants. But they never used them as a staple food source. Bananas were too sacred. They were a delicacy, and a welcome alternative in times of scarcity. The banana was often used as symbol for man in the many religious ceremonies. Often a stalk substituted for a human sacrifice, and the favorite ceremonial banana was the lele, with its double meaning, because lele also means "to fly away." Thus, in any ritual were a suggestion of flying transpired, the lele featured. Love, for example, could fly to a desired heart.
Under punishment with death, women couldn't touch the sacred fruit till the abolition of the taboo in 1819.
Originally posted by windword
Sometimes a food taboo is just silly.
Originally posted by windword
reply to post by Lazarus Short
What are the consequences of eating pork? How does pork, when handled correctly, compare worse that steer meat? And what's wrong with goat? It may be a bit gamy, but unclean?
What about shell fish. Seafaring nations of time ate shell fish without consequences, as long it's it was prepared properly. Mussel stew, YUM!
I heard a story that early Americans refused to eat lobster, because it was unclean, and gave it to their slaves to eat instead. But, when the slaves cooked the lobsters into tasty rich meals, they tried it and changed their minds. Now it's a delicacy.
Longest living culture
Originally posted by JesuitGarlic
reply to post by Lazarus Short
Longest living culture
relating to non-geographically contained and of high population sample size
Originally posted by lonewolf19792000
reply to post by Lazarus Short
I step out on faith. I like bacon. The only kind of pork i care to eat is bacon, most the time i'll ignore the rest unless i'm hankering for a hickory smoked ham. You only live once. Honestly, all the crap we eat now isn't clean, it's got all the manmade chemicles and junk in it designed to kill us. Unless you're Amish everything you eat is unclean anyway, as most prepackaged stuff is cooked together in vats and factories. Yeshua said "it's not what goes into your mouth that defiles you, but what comes out of your mouth that makes you unclean, for what comes out of your mouth comes from the heart".