Going through Dr.Steger video - this is quiet a challenge I mean its worse than PT course , I was sitting this morning after watching it last night feeling totally guilty, this body being Gods Temple and all - Me have to have coffee,meat and very little water in fact if i can help it non at all ... and that small voice spoke to me in a quiet time this morning and the words kill eat came to me...
I recall Peter being shown a scroll in a vision 3 times the command came to him
I enlisted Googles services which took me to Acts ch 10
Act 10:15 And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common
Act 10:16 This was done thrice: and the vessel was received up again into heaven.
Was he talking about food or was he talking about the upcoming meeting with Cornelias.[Gentile]
The scroll clearly depicts all types of animals including reptiles - this is for our consumption and has been "cleansed"
Weird, I knew a chap - total health nut no pun intended, always eating salad,fruit,veg and white meats very healthy until one day as he was leaving a sushi bar
was run over by a car ....
Ian
Ian, if we just look at that verse, the vision is about the acceptance of the Gentiles. There is a fair amount said in the New Testament scriptures about food. Primarily, these 'lessons' are there to teach on other things...Love, being the most important.
Still, they are 'useful' to do this because of the "assumption" that the dietary laws of the Jews were not binding on Gentile christians. This is NOT a false assumption...see Acts for what what 'burden' WAS placed on the Gentiles. It wasn't dietary laws or restrictions, except for the eating of meat sacrificed to idols. It wasn't even the single MOST important distinction between national Jews and the nations...circumcision.
Aside from the 'law', are there 'better' and 'worse' foods to eat? Yes. The problem is, that these are not 0ne-size-fits-all. The Lord has made us all different, and that includes heredity, ethnicity, culture and geography, relative healthiness, wealth, allergies, etc. etc. etc. Education is general (and ,sadly, often contradictory) but application has to be specific.
1Co 3:16,17 Know ye not that ye (plural) are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you (plural)? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye (plural) are.
I have to wonder: Who is 'defiling the temple of God' more, the one who eats a cheeseburger, or the one who shuns or lords it over the one who eats the cheeseburger?
I like Extol's reply. It makes good sense. Be sober, moderate, reasonable, of a sound mind. Do good.