What would you say to a fellow Christian who says that the Bible teaches that we can now eat anything we want?
They say that we can eat whatever we want because we are living under the New Covenant. What would you say to them?
2010-06-19T09:31:57Z
Hi Lightning. You're right. I don't agree and I will tell you why. In Acts 10, the vision was about unclean animals and Peter, now a Christian still did not believe in eating anything unclean. We learn later in verse 28 that the animals represented people--Gentiles whom the Jews considered unclean. Peter said, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep company with or go to one of another nation. But God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean." His vision had nothing to do with diet.
Romans 14:1-23 has to do with eating foods sacrificed to idols. The food offered to idols was not unclean food but to the Gentile converts it was. Paul was telling the people not to eat the food offered to idols in front of those who thought it was wrong.
It does not make sense that the foods which God once declared were unclean and unfit for human consumption would now be okay to eat. Our bodies are temples and we need to take care of them.
trueisrael2010-06-19T07:55:44Z
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Matthew 22:29 29Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
Isaiah 65:2,4-5 2I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts; 4Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels; 5Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.
Isaiah 66:15-17,23-24 15For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. 16For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many. 17They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD. 23And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD. 24And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
It probably won't matter what you show or tell them because they have itching ears and will refuse to listen to anything that doesn't coincide with the hearsay doctrine they serve. They will listen to Jenny Craig, Atkins, nutra system and any other man that tells them certain things aren't good to eat but they will fight against the bible as if they were being told to do something bad. (Attributes of the devil) You can identify the people that sanctify themselves apart from the ones that are sanctified by God simply by listening and watching their conversation and behavior. Any one that doesn't think they have to keep the commandments is spiritually drunk off of Gentile Christian doctrine that stems from Europe and not God. None of them understand that the church for the true and living God is the house of Israel. They want to join his church but without having to do what he commissioned Israel to teach the rest of mankind. I can't stand it when a person tries to cop out of obeying the commandments by saying God gave something only to Israel because that reveals that they don't understand the order of things which is The father gave the word to the son who sent his angel(Holy Spirit) to give it to man(Israel) to teach the rest of the sons of Adam. The bottom line is that nobody wants to acknowledge who Israel is because they would have to learn from their former slaves. Gentiles ain't having that.
Jeremiah 16:19 19O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
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Well I have been studying that for a while. That verse can most likely be prove (Act 10) that it talkin about people not animals. Look at this verse which has nothing to do with food but it has to do with the law which is what this whole conversation is about. Luke 19 It is talking about Zacchaeus and Jesus goes to his house...and he or Z seemed I guess was dishonest, after Jesus left him the bible says salvation come to this house and he also is a son of Abraham... And Zacchaeus says in verse 8, I give to the poor and if I have taken from any man, I restore fourfold......That fourfold princible is in Ex. 22:1 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it, he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
Well, Debbie, Hmm, You are probably not going to agree, But in Leviticus chapter 11 it lists the dietary restrictions God gave to the nation of Israel. The dietary laws included prohibitions against eating pork, shrimp, shellfish and many types of seafood, most insects, scavenger birds, and various other animals. The dietary rules were never intended to apply to anyone other than the Israelites. The purpose of the food laws was to make the Israelites distinct from all other nations. After this purpose had ended, Jesus declared all foods clean (Mark 7:19). God gave the apostle Peter a vision in which He declared that formerly unclean animals could be eaten: “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean” (Acts 10:15). When Jesus died on the cross, He fulfilled the Old Testament law (Romans 10:4; Galatians 3:24-26; Ephesians 2:15). This includes the laws regarding clean and unclean foods.
Romans 14:1-23 teaches us that not everyone is mature enough in the faith to accept the fact that all foods are clean. As a result, if we are with someone who would be offended by our eating “unclean” food, we should give up our right to do so as to not offend the other person. We have the right to eat whatever we want, but we do not have the right to offend other people, even if they are wrong. For the Christian in this age, though, we have freedom to eat whatever we wish as long as it does not cause someone else to stumble in his/her faith.
In the New Covenant of grace, the Bible is far more concerned with how much we eat than what we eat. Physical appetites are an analogy of our ability to control ourselves. If we are unable to control our eating habits, we are probably also unable to control other habits such as those of the mind (lust, covetousness, unrighteous hatred/anger) and unable to keep our mouths from gossip or strife. We are not to let our appetites control us; rather, we are to control them (Deuteronomy 21:20; Proverbs 23:2; 2 Peter 1:5-7; 2 Timothy 3:1-9; 2 Corinthians 10:5).
In Acts chapter 15 the Apostles told the gentiles what they could not eat.This is a people who grew and ate pigs(pork).They never told them to abstain from pork and these Gentiles did not go to synagogue seeing they were not Jewish for the most part. JESUS also said "It is NOT what goes into a man that defiles him but what comes from the heart".There is a lot more to this as well.