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To Eat or Not to Eat Pork

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Rene:
I can only imagine how horrified the Jews must have been when they heard Jesus speak of "eating the flesh of the Son of Man and drinking His blood."  We know it has a spiritual meaning, but most of those hearing these words of Jesus had no clue that He was not talking literally.

John 6:53-56 - "Jesus, therefore, said unto them—Verily, verily, I say unto you—Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, ye have not life within yourselves .He that feedeth upon my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath life age-abiding, and, I, will raise him up at the last day; For, my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink; He that feedeth upon my flesh, and drinketh my blood, in me abideth, and I in him.

John 6:60-61 - "Many of his disciples, therefore, when they heard said—Hard is this discourse,—Who can, thereunto, hearken? But Jesus, knowing within himself that his disciples were murmuring concerning this, said unto them—Doth this cause you, to stumble?



--- Quote from: microlink on August 09, 2014, 12:36:44 AM ---I believe that even common sense prevails on some things like eating crab, lobsters, snakes, octopus, etc.
It is repulsive and not created by God for human consumption, IMO.

--- End quote ---

BTW microlink, crab meat is one of my favorites.  MmMm good!  :)

indianabob:
Been following the Jewish dietary rules for 45 years and at age 79 I look 40.  8)
Of course that's first thing in the morning...


You decide what is best for ya'll.

Indiana Bob

microlink:
Amen brother. Dietary laws are not THE LAW (of Moses) but are given to us to take care of our selves. Thanks.
 ;)

Dave in Tenn:
Lev 11:1  And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
Lev 11:2  Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.

indianabob:
Foods that we may/should enjoy.
Think back before Google when we didn't know which foods were safe to eat and the trial and error method was used. Lots of upset stomachs and long incubation diseases.

God planned from before the beasts were even created to put a sign on his approved list of animals. One example is the Ruminant type. Animals that both chew the cud and have a split hoof.
Now here is the deal for folks who lived off of the land before there was established scientific guidelines about what is safe to eat.
Anywhere a person might travel in the whole earth by foot or horseback or ship, one could identify edible animal meat by simply observing a healthy, living animal to see if it lived on mostly grass, grain, leaves etc. and chewed the CUD and had a split hoof.
For the seaman it was fish with fins and scales, but that is another story.

See detailed explanation at the below mentioned site: the process eliminates all hazardous disease organisms. If it doesn't kill the cow it ain't gonna kill us.
Indiana Bob

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruminant

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