Is it a Christian practice to not eat "bottom feeders"?  Why?
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In Acts 10, God lowers a sheet down in front of Peter, in the sheet is all sorts of animals, clean and unclean, God tells Peter to kill and eat them... Peter tells God he has never eaten unclean meat and God tells Peter "Everything I have created is clean" and Paul also teaches us that no food is unclean in and of itself but if someone feels something is unclean, then to them it is and we shouldnt offend them. Basically eat what you want, Jesus said its not what goes into our bodies that makes us unclean but what comes out of the heart. I think thats all the Bible needs to say in answer to the question.
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It's still against tradition to eat red meat on Fridays during Lent.\n\nI doubt something that small would doom anyone to hell. I don't think God really cares about the small things, but about the goodness of your soul.
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CHRISTIANS DON'T WANT TO FOLLOW JESUS; DIDN'T YOU KNOW THAT, "FOR ALL SEEK THEIR OWN, NOT THE THINGS WHICH ARE JESUS CHRIST'S."--(PHIL.2:21)\n  ** TEXTS THAT INVOLVE THE CLEAN AND UNCLEAN MEATS:\nGEN.18:7-8; LEV.11; 20:25; DEUT.14; ISAIAH 66:17; EZEK.22:26; DAN.1:8; MATT.3:4; LUKE 24:41-43; ACTS 10:10-14; 1COR.3:16-17; 9:27; 2COR.6:17; AND REV.21:8.\n----TO ME; IF THE CLEAN AND UNCLEAN MEATS WEREN'T VALID FOR TODAY; THEN WHY OH WHY WOULD THE LORD PLEAD WITH FLESH NOT TO EAT UNCLEAN MEAT--(ISAIAH 66:15-17). ALSO NOTICE DEUT.14:4 "SHALT NOT EAT ANY ABOMINABLE THING" AND REV.21:8 "...THE ABOMINABLE SHALL HAVE THEIR PART IN THE LAKE WHICH BURNETH WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE: WHICH IS THE SECOND DEATH."\nI COULD GO ON AND ON; BUT I TEST YOU TO TEST IT FOR YOURSELF LIKE SDA'S HAVE:\n#1. COOK HAM WELL DONE.\n#2. LOOK UNDER MICROSCOPE ON HAM.\n#3. YOU WOULD BE SHOCKED OF WHAT YOU WILL FIND!\n\n**By the way JEWS don't eat pig either.
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It is a tradition of pagan men (specifically Emperor Constantine & those who follow him). It directly contradicts God's will as expressed in the 10 Commandments. God views iniquity like this as an abhorrent abomination.\n\nWe should not test God's Grace. (Do not sin in order to make Grace abound.)\n\nAnyway, the Sabbath Rest was made FOR man - don't abuse it (don't desecrate it); enjoy the Gift with praise & worship as intended.
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I reckon you're wrong. I have been a Christian all my life and would rather eat a cow turd than think homosexual thoughts.
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There was a time when this trend was unacceptable to fundamental Christians. Unfortunately the influence of the world has had a profound effect. Many Christians now operate on the basis of "everyone else is doing it...why not me?" Or "Look at so and so... He/She is doing fine... God can't be that disapproving of that behavior." Many don't actually know that the God of the Bible they profess to believe, actually does disapprove of premarital sex.\n\nI can remember when this behavior was not highly looked on...just 30-40 years ago...and by secular America at that.\nSadly, many 'modern' Christians would rather sacrifice the permanent on the altar of the immediate, as a friend of mine was fond of saying.\n\nI've been asked "But how do you know if you are compatible?" My answer is through a lot of dating, a lot of guidance and counseling, a lot of parental advice, a lot of patience, and a little commitment (actually a lot!).  My apologies for those Christians you have met that react wrongly to your stand... they are possibly ignorant of God's word and misled by the temptations of the world.
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pigs are considered dirty. cows are sacred and jews dont eat shellfish,christians can eat anything they like apart from themselves and other humans.
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You do find so much rubbish in answer to sensible questions!\n\nThe early Church were under a new covenenant, the blood of Jesus, and so the strict rules of the old one, which everyone failed at anyway, were void.\n\nActs 15:29 You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things.\n\nPork is back on the menu!
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Better to read on the toilet than not to read.When the Pharisees accosted Christ because his follower ate with dirty hands,He said they worried over the cleanliness of the out side of a cup while the inside was never cleaned.\nIf Christ is with you,he is with you always not just when you do those things you think will please him.He is there through every good,bad,secret and sinful moment.
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I do not disagree with your "challenge".  At times I find myself wondering if I am ignoring Jesus' advice in Matthew 7:06 ("Do not cast your pearls before swine").  I think it is okay for a Christian to get a little emotional in their defense of the faith...as long as it doesn't cross the line to an uncontrolled anger.\n\nAre our words falling on deaf ears?  Maybe they are hardened "reprobates" and they only come here to be "a thorn in the side". But maybe, just maybe, deep inside they come to this page because they know that they might be wrong...
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Best not to listen to pretenders. Christians are called to freedom, not bondage to diets, traditions or rituals.\n\ndukalink6000-That's a pretty intolerant thing to say.
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Yes that is against god and everything in the world. I would recommend not doing that unless you want to be looked down upon in society.
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I think you are right.\n\nThis is why,\n\nHeb. 5.13-14\nAnyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness.\n\nBut solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.\n\n.......................................................................................\n\nAddition,\n\nDon't be fooled, remember that the bible says to test everything!\n\nEven these answers!\n\n2 John 1:7 (New International Version)\nMany deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.\n\nThe bible doesn't say to lay with your spouse to make evil spirits go away.\n\nThe bible tells us to do "Exactly what you are doing!\n\nJames 4:7\nSubmit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBlessings.
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Foremost, quote the book and scripture from which you are referring.  There are a myraid of things that may be wrong with your argument that may not come to light unless you are honest in asking a question.  Honesty in asking includes citing your source.\n\nSecondly, this was a question proposed by Saint Augustine during the Fall of the Roman Empire.\n\nThe real question is - "So, we know the right way to live.  Great!  Why don't we do it?"\n\nThe answer is that we still have sin on our souls.  As sinners, we are given over to minor bouts of gluttony where we wish to eat things that taste good rather that what is best for our body.\n\nIt is not easy for anyone, let alone the whole of the Christain world (read Western Society), to break completely from this sin.\n\nIf you are so enlightened as to what Christains should eat, tell me, how do you purge your soul of minor bouts of gluttony?\n\nIt seems you ask your questions more to discredit Christains than to help them.
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Religion doesn't want you to know what it was really like back in biblical days. Food always was a problem. Meat was a luxury. After the growing season (there was no refrigeration) if you didn't have enough food to last, or if there was a bad crop or flood or insect damage, the people had to forage for food in order to survive. Which means , pick up anything that was edible, any leaf, plant  or root that could be chewed & swallowed was food. When that was depleated people actually picked up a handful of dirt and swallowed it in order to to take away hunger. If you ate the wrong plant or root you could halucinate. The root of the Payote Cactus, Mugwort,  etc are plants that contain halucinagins. The people didn't know. Eat it and you could see a staff turn into a snake like in the Bible. When Jesus went into the desert for 40 days did he bring a hundred pounds of food? When prophets claim that  they heard God it's never asked. "What did they eat before?" Religion always gives you a cleansed version of what went on in Biblical times (for obvious reasons).  If you would study the History of Civilization on this planet at a university (not from a religion) you will gain a better understanding of what really went on. And you would question a lot of things they tell you to believe. Religion is always much more popular with uneducated people (no offense intended).
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Sure just in moderation.  Just to go abit off subject if nichill18 studied her Bible she would know that animals do not have souls.  If they did they wouldn't be so tasty.  :  )
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You have it all wrong.  The Bible is the cookbook.  You forget the saying about teaching a man to fish.  Jesus worshipping missionaries are taking it one step further.  If you teach a man to feed 1000 with 1 fish and turn saltwater to wine, you will never have food shortages.  They are doing wonderful work out there in the third world.