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Daniel, veganism and meat
octoberose:
George brought up Daniel and the issue of eating meat. As it happens, I've been wanting to talk about food related things.
My belief about Daniel is that he refused the kings meat not because there was is anything intrinsically wrong with eating meat, but because the meat was either not prepared according to God's law or the meat was pork. Daniel did not want to be defiled and God had let them eat meat as long as it followed His guidelines .
What I want to ask is, do you see a correlation between diet and our spiritual health? Some of us struggle with weight, some with health issues. If God knows every hair on our heads, surely He also concerns Himself with our food. Surely nothing in our lives exisit outside of Him.
Would snyone share their food journey, and how it relates to being a follower of Christ?
cheekie3:
octoberose -
--- Quote from: octoberose on October 24, 2016, 04:24:10 AM ---George brought up Daniel and the issue of eating meat. As it happens, I've been wanting to talk about food related things.
My belief about Daniel is that he refused the kings meat not because there was is anything intrinsically wrong with eating meat, but because the meat was either not prepared according to God's law or the meat was pork. Daniel did not want to be defiled and God had let them eat meat as long as it followed His guidelines .
What I want to ask is, do you see a correlation between diet and our spiritual health? Some of us struggle with weight, some with health issues. If God knows every hair on our heads, surely He also concerns Himself with our food. Surely nothing in our lives exisit outside of Him.
Would snyone share their food journey, and how it relates to being a follower of Christ?
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Without going into any detail - the thing that sticks in my mind is that every living creature (birds, fish, animals, men, women and children) ate fruit, nuts and vegetables before Noah's flood.
Apart from mankind being totally corrupt, and Our Heavenly Father having destroyed those on the land - I know of nothing else that is significant - yet Our Heavenly Father then stated that all living creatures could from then on eat the meat of animals, fish, birds, etc.
We know that Jesus Himself ate fish after He was Resurrected.
I have studied this somewhat, and it appears that we need alkaline foods to stay healthy, but most of us eat acidic foods.
I thought that The Scriptures stated that Daniel did not eat any meat.
Interesting topic, as a lot of people have recently become Vegans, mostly due to the fact that they have discovered how the animals, chickens, and fish are treated.
Kind Regards.
George
Extol:
But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat.-Daniel 1:8
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.-John 4:34
This is not about eating the flesh of animals. Later in the story, Daniel's friends "refused the king's meat" by not bowing to his statue of gold.
George, I do not agree that all people before the Flood were vegan. I believe people were eating meat long before Adam. But even if they were vegan, how/why is that any kind of impetus for becoming vegan? (You stated in the other thread I have recently become a Vegan, as I have discovered how the animals that we all eat are treated - and I am wondering why I did not do this earlier, as Daniel lived like this, and so did all who lived before the flood.) You say that mankind was totally corrupt. That means we should copy their eating habits?
lostANDfound:
I won't share my entire food journey but I will say that now, a few months from turning 40, I am probably the healthiest I've ever been since changing how I make food decisions. I don't give a hoot what the Stroke Foundation, FDA, etc. say is healthy. It's based on how God-made versus human-altered different foods are. Butter over margerine. Lots of local eggs, wild meat, garden veg, and we raise meat rabbits that run around and soak up the sun and are culled if they're sick instead of injected with junk to keep them "healthy". But if God chooses for me to struggle with sickness again I will, despite my efforts. Healthy eating was becoming an idol for me about seven years ago but I feel like it's been smashed off that pedestal now and it's just a general way of life that doesn't always happen but mostly does. If God intends for my to be sick, I will be, but I don't plan to encourage the matter by eating Doritos and donuts all day. Also, I am only healing, not yet healed of long term heavy metal poisoning.
cheekie3:
Jesse -
--- Quote from: Extol on October 24, 2016, 12:03:21 PM ---But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat.-Daniel 1:8
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.-John 4:34
This is not about eating the flesh of animals. Later in the story, Daniel's friends "refused the king's meat" by not bowing to his statue of gold.
George, I do not agree that all people before the Flood were vegan. I believe people were eating meat long before Adam. But even if they were vegan, how/why is that any kind of impetus for becoming vegan? (You stated in the other thread I have recently become a Vegan, as I have discovered how the animals that we all eat are treated - and I am wondering why I did not do this earlier, as Daniel lived like this, and so did all who lived before the flood.) You say that mankind was totally corrupt. That means we should copy their eating habits?
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I do not fully understand about what we are to eat and drink - and I am still researching this.
I am not sure that any ate meat before the flood.
The Scriptural witnesses do not fit right with me on this at the moment.
As I said, Jesus ate fish after He was Resurrected.
I know we are not to judge each other on what we are to eat.
Kind Regards.
George
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