I take it then, Brad that you won't be having ham for Christmas!  I
feel sorry for all the Maine lobstermen too.    Don't turkeys do some
scavenging too?  HMMMM!  GRIN!
Kathy


At 08:29 PM 11/30/2005, you wrote:
>Kathy,
>
>India must have had Lamb, fish, chicken, etc.?  The reason I think the
>Leviticus foods are still applicable today is because it is clearly based
>out of a nutrition and cleanliness issue. Scavengers are  high in toxins
>while clean meat and foods are low cholesterol and etc. We can prove this
>out in today's science what God knew back then because he created them.  It
>never was a "law" to eat only the foods in Leviticus,  it looked to me that
>God was giving wise guidelines to follow. If one chooses to alter from
>that, I suppose they pay the price, like we see happening today. The
>sacrifice of the animals is done with Christ, but we still need to eat, and
>I don't think God has made pig any cleaner today than it was centuries ago.
>
>Brad
>
>
>At 09:20 AM 11/30/2005 -0500, you wrote:
> >Brad,
> >I do believe that food restrictions were eliminated as well.  After
> >all, Jesus said, "Go in to all the world."  If the disciples had to
> >take there dietary restrictions with them where ever they went, how
> >could Paul then be all things to all people?  Don't forget, church
> >tradition says that  Andrew ended up in India.  If that is true, in
> >India, then he wouldn't have been able to eat cow meat.  He would
> >have had to eat something else!
> >Kathy
> >
> >
> >
> >At 03:06 PM 11/29/2005, you wrote:
> > >According to Leviticus, God gave his people some very simple but easy to
> > >determine guidelines for food they ought eat. Fish that have
> scales and not
> > >those without, not to eat scavengers, but to eat hooved animals that chew
> > >their cud and etc.
> > >
> > >How then does the New Testament' scriptures  that speak of unclean being
> > >clean apply? Granted I know Peter's trance or dream or whatever was
> > >netaphorically speaking of the visitors he was about to get who were
> > >gentiles and not Jews, but is there a food related application to it as
> > >well? Curious of your thoghts. Has the New Testament made the Leviticus
> > >rules obsolete in any way.
> > >
> > >Rom 14:19-21
> > >19 So then we pursue the things which make for peace and the
> building up of
> > >one another.
> > >20 Do not tear down the work of God for the sake of food. All
> things indeed
> > >are clean, but they are evil for the man who eats and gives offense.
> > >
> > >Acts 10:11-16
> > >11 and he saw the sky opened up, and an object like a great sheet coming
> > >down, lowered by four corners to the ground,
> > >12 and there were in it all kinds of four-footed animals and crawling
> > >creatures of the earth and birds of the air.
> > >13 A voice came to him, "Get up, Peter, kill and eat!"
> > >14 But Peter said, "By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything
> > >unholy and unclean."
> > >15 Again a voice came to him a second time, "What God has cleansed, no
> > >longer consider unholy."
>
>Brad
>
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