What does your religion say about food?
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My religion tells me to eat only the clean and healthy things in this world.\n\nMy religion tells me that we eat to live, and that we don't live to eat. It tells me that if I had chicken then I should cook it and make a lot of soup so that I would be able to give some of it to those who need it.\n\nMy religion tells me to eat only when I'm hungry, and that I am better off sleeping with an empty stomach then to sleep bloated with food I didn't need to eat in the first place.\n\nMy religion tells me to eat only what is 'halal', and pure, and to thank God for the grace that He has shed upon me. \n\nThat's what my religion tells me about food. and that is why I am so found of it.
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Please do not confuse RELIGION with GOD.. \n\nReligion is a man made organized political system that rules your church..\n\nGod wants to have a personal relationship with you.\n\nGod doesn`t care if you wear make up or pants to church or eat meat on friday. God is NOT Baptist, Catholic, or methodist.. \n\n<><
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One religion hmmm this is intresting, i guess that i would pick commandments that focused on helping others and promoting a society that attempts to help others, Christanity has some good guidelines in that department, also eastern religions focus on an idividuals place in the world definitly useful. Just stay away from the dietary laws... i like food in general.
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Christians and Catholics have two different religions all together.  So you should get many varied responses.  I am a Christian and have the freedom to eat what ever meat I want all year long.  I do however tend to eat pork sparingly because of the lack of sweat glands on pigs.  Pork really isn't good for your body.  In general, my family eats mostly boneless, skinless chicken breast due to my husbands health, but other cuts of lean meat about once sometimes twice a week.\n\nSometimes Christians choose to give up a favorite food or activity, like soda or golfing, just to remember what God did for them and to draw closer to Him, but that is not in the Bible.  It is a man made practice\n\nMost Catholics give something up for lent, but I'm not sure if it is "required" by their church or not.  I do know that they are not allowed to eat meat on Ash Wednesday or Fridays during lent.  \n\nI hope this helps.
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Ancient egyptian religion was actually quite coherent on food offerings for the dead.\n\nEgyptians believed that a man consisted of five parts: his body, his name, his shadow, his ka, and his ba. A ba is what makes each person unique, i.e. his personality and his traits. A ka is the life-force -- when you die, your ka leaves your body.\n\nEgyptians logically concluded that when you are alive, the ka is sustained by food--after all, when you eat, you get stronger. When you don't eat, you die.\n\nSo when egyptians left food offerings for the dead, it was the ka of the dead that consumed the "life-force" of the food, since your body is no longer present to physically consume it.\n\nIn addition, the ancient egyptians often made "invocation offerings" or "voice offerings" rather than actual food. This involved a recitation offerings made for the ka of the dead, and invoked spiritual food for them in the afterlife.
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As a Hindu I believe that it is very important to ask questions. Asking a question is sometimes more important than seeking the answer, because atleast the question has been asked. Hindus are taught to never just accept anything, but to try it and experience it. Hinduism isn't really a religion of "believe it or else" it's like a lot of other eastern religions that say "try it, experience it, if it doesn't work for you, move on." When it comes to spiritual things, the same goes. Hinduism has the Ten Commitments which aren't meant to condemn you, they are meant to help improve your spiritual practices in life (meditation, etc). The same with dietary rules. They vary from person to person because each person is told to try different foods and then see how the react in meditation. The foods that disrupt meditation or cause your mind and body to not be calm should be avoided, the foods that calm the mind and body and help you meditate should continue being eaten. But each of us is different so the foods we eat will vary. The same goes with our experiences and approaches to God. If you do not ask questions, how can you know if your approach and experience to God is reflected in the spiritual practices you follow?
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Described by St Paul, "cujus Deus venter est - whose God is their belly" (Phil.3,19).  It means that some people think more of earthly pleasures than spiritual ones. Thus eating and drinking too much and other pleasureable things takes precedence over the worship of God.
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Adam had the whole garden,..but sorry, an apple was not mentioned in Gen.  The people of Moses ate manna, angels food.  John ate locust and honey, the prodigals son ate the swines food and then also had his father prepare a feast for him.  At passover a lamb was sacrificed. They used alot of olive oil.   AND the seed of Abraham, we do now live in that land of milk and honey, this good ol USA.\nIf you want to know the food instructions that God left for us and what God considers clean and unclean, Lev. 11 tells all the foods that God gives us with thanksgiving to be RECEIVED.
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Your philosophy is based on your religion. What do you think is most important?
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To say that God didnt allow people to eat these things anciently because of no refridgeration or anything like that is absurd.  If you believe that then you would have to agree that God is not all knowing.  He must not have realized that one day in the future someone would invent a box to keep ice and meat in because if He did realize it then He surely He would have said "when the ice box in developed you may eat of these unclean animals".  \n\nThe problem here is translation the words "tahor" and "tamei" in hebrew do not translate well in to english so they chose the words "clean" and "unclean".  It is a spiritual teaching using physical things like a pig for instance.  But like any other commandment, if you strip the physical part of actually doing the commandment away, and only focus on the spiritual it will eventually loose its meaning thats why the physical is so important.  This would take me a while to explain but essentially the animals we are not to eat are scavengers, they devour other animals.  The animals that are edible chew cud.  Man was originally made to be vegetarian but when God allowed meat during the time of Noah, He chose animals that chewed cud.  If we were not going to be vegetarians then at least we would only eat animals that chewed cud so we were only one step away in the chain so to speak.  \n\nI dont want to ramble but this is a huge subject that needs to be taught.  There are so many other areas to cover like divided hooves and chewing cud being linked with rightly dividing the word and chewing on it until it becomes milk to feed "baby" believers in Yhwh.  There is really a lot there if you study it out.
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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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Well, apparently they do not understand the term "personal conviction".  God gave us the animals to not only keep under our domination but also to eat (it is in Genesis...through the rest of the OT you can read about the stuff they weren't supposed to eat).\n\nIn the NT, it specifically states that it isn't what is put INTO the body that makes someone "unclean" - it is what comes out of our heart.  Paul even spoke of eating meat made as a sacrifice to idols.
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I believe the Bible is good reading and has a lot of good things to say. There are however interpretations by scholars that I do not buy. Faith is a personal thing no matter what others may say. Even the church faithfuls have differing interpretations of what their ministers preach. God is impersonal but our own concepts, views, opinions of what, who and how God is make for us an personal relationship with God.\n\nYes, I believe in life after death (that is the death of our physical bodies). The body is an outer shell that is removed when death comes. A new outer shell emerges better and more efficient than its predecessor. This process continues on and on to eternity. With each death a higher form of being is born.
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And Jesus continued: "God commanded your forefathers: 'Thou shalt not kill.' But their heart was hardened and they killed. Then Moses desired that at least they should not kill men, and he suffered them to kill beasts. And then the heart of your forefathers was hardened yet more, and they killed men and beasts likewise. But I do say to you: Kill neither men, nor beasts, nor yet the food which goes into your mouth. For if you eat living food, the same will quicken you, but if you kill your food, the dead food will kill you also. \n\nNow for the answer to your question:\n\n"And when you eat, never eat unto fulness. Flee the temptations of Satan, and listen to the voice of God's angels. For Satan and his power tempt you always to eat more and more. But live by the spirit, and resist the desires of the body. And your fasting is always pleasing in the eyes of the angels of God. So give heed to how much you have eaten when your body is sated, and always eat less by a third.\n\n                                       Page 301
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When you pray to thank God for your food, don't try to stick with the same prayer that you use every single time. just say" hey God, thanks for providing this meal for me. please bless it to the nourishments of my body, in Jesus names. Amen". and it doesn't have to be word for word. just make it your own prayer and whatever you say, mean it. don't just say it for the heck of saying because it looks and sounds good. hope i could be of some help.
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The life of the spirit as opposed to that of the mind or body-it is the impetus behind religious ideals. \nAs for what true religion is the Bible says this: "...the fast (religious practice) I have chosen is to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke...to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out to your house...when you see the naked, that you cover him....Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your health shall spring forth speedily: and your righteousness shall go before you: the glory of the LORD shall be your rereward....And the LORD shall guide you continually, and satisfy your soul..." See Isaiah 58
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Environment.  Religion has nothing to do with our "survival", the environment does!