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sasscell:
Does God gave us instruction on how to eat (from a health benefits point of view) in His Word??

Kat:
Hi Sue Ann,

I'm not aware of anything that says pork is unfit for human consumption.  But I do believe that we have to use good judgment and try to have a healthy diet.  
What is important is the spiritual, not the physical.  
Numerous physical rituals were performed in the early years of the Apostles' ministries until they came to a realization that it is the spirit that matters, not the physical (http://www.forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,251.0.html).
But Paul did teach the belivers what they should concern themselves with.

Act 15:19  Wherefore my judgment is, that we trouble not them that from among the Gentiles turn to God;
v. 20  but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

If you don't think it's a good thing to eat certain meats, that is fine for you to abstain from them.  But it is not a necessary thing that we are held to, from the old covenant.  We are under the new covenant and the law is spiritual.

Rom 7:14  For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.

mercy, peace, and love
Kat

Beloved:
Pork meat has been implicated with trichinosis (worms that get into muscles and tissue and cause a great deal of pain and even death if heart tissue is involved) in the past but today most pork is not infested with this. Most the food laws were beneficial in the days of unrefrigeration and no antibiotics.

Remember everthing written is also spiritual. The physical things that were not allowed  then...ate off the dead. they were scavengers. They were loaded with bacteria. 

When God was talking about not eating unclean meat he is referring to the heretical doctrine that come from spiritually dead churches.

When Peter was told to eat everything, the square cloth represented the four corners of the earth. I believe that God protected the believers in the early church and his chosen through the ages. Foods like the law were fulfilled in Christ.   

Eating a little meat (size of a deck of cards) is all that is necessary in order to obtain the needed protein and iron. We should probably be better stewards and not encourage the excess killing of animals that the present world is engaged in. We do not need to be vegetarians, remember Jesus ate lamb and fish when in His earthly form.

 Beloved   

pilgrim:

--- Quote from: Sue Ann on August 13, 2007, 12:40:22 PM ---Hi All,
I have been unable to find anything in Ray's emails or articles about clean and unclean meats. 


--- Quote ---I may get some uncomfortable feedback on my replies to your questions and others replies but I would like to answer using common sense and logic. I came to the conclusion that the best way of surviving is to read the scriptures as they are written...One can do very well by accepting what God has spoken concerning clean and unclean. I was never an SDA but I fellowshipped with them for 14 years...I was a member of the WWCofGod for a few years (until I was excommunicated because I couldn't accept the tithing and festival doctrines)...In both cases I agreed with both churches on clean and unclean foods (and still do) for the following reasons.
 
Most of the unclean animals are scavengers (they eat rotten material, diseased animals, are known to carry diseases and can be toxic sometimes, etc.
A young female member and good friend of mine in another church that taught "anything goes" died when eating a food that sometimes is toxic.
A fellow employee and long time friend nearly died when he ate scallops.
I can't think of any case concerning Biblical unclean food, that there isn't a rational, reasonable, common sense argument against eating it.
There are so many "clean" foods that one can eat, why bother with the "unclean" foods unless one is stubborn, rebellious, and blind as my friends were!
 


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Having come out of a church that taught it was a sin to eat pork, sea food, etc...


--- Quote ---It is not a SIN to eat unclean as you know...It might only kill you!!
Ray teaches about choice and free will... If in doubt ...DON'T



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I would so like to have some input into what is correct according to the scriptures.


--- Quote ---What is correct according to the scriptures is what is written...believe it!

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Thanks!
Sue Ann

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Understand...I believe everything that I have read (so far)here, that God has inspired Ray to teach. He is the best thing that has happened in my life so far.

Bon Apetite
Pilgrim

rk12201960:
Hi Guys,
There are so many and I mean MANY hormones, genetic altering, potions and other things in store bought food that makes unclean food look like a mild case of 'I dunno"

Believe me when I say the beef you ate last night could make you glow when the lights are off.

So my questions is which food is more a danger to humans today.
Life is not the same as it was in the OT days so we could be so far off the mark than you think.

Randy

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