Why Don't Christians Follow Dietary Law?

[valet]

This should help you get a understanding about what Paul was saying
Food Laws or Fasting? Misunderstandings regarding Romans 14
If you think Paul is saying we can eat or drink anything then we can eat stillborn babies and drink blood now cuz Paul said so


No. Paul was actually teaching the lost children of Israel that became gentiles. They dispersed from Israel and moved to other countries and started marrying, having children with them. They also started following their ways. The Apocrypha speaks on it as well as the bible.

Of course he's not saying we can eat stillborn babies or drink blood. But he does speak on you can eat food sacrificed to idols if your conscious permits. How does that fit into the Jewish dietary law? Paul said he would never eat MEAT again if it caused his brother some issues. So obviously this passage is talking about meat. If so, how does the meat sacrificed to idols fit the Jewish dietary law?

I Corinthians 8:
Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that “We all possess knowledge.” But knowledge puffs up while love builds up. 2 Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know. 3 But whoever loves God is known by God.


4 So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that “An idol is nothing at all in the world” and that “There is no God but one.” 5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”), 6 yet for us there is but one God, the Father,from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord,Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.

7 But not everyone possesses this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat sacrificial food they think of it as having been sacrificed to a god, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled. 8 But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.

9 Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak. 10 For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your knowledge, eating in an idol’s temple, won’t that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols? 11 So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. 12 When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 13 Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause them to fall.

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

Of course he's not saying we can eat stillborn babies or drink blood.

He said all meat? So how can you say “of course we know we cant eat such this particular kind of meat”?

 

[bigdaddy88]

Paul clearly isn’t Jesus. Again , when did Jesus condemn homosexuality?

Jesus was speaking to a Jewish crowd (juda, benjamin and some of the levites) they were keeping the law in judea, the scattered jews, who were know as gentiles or Greeks were living among the gentiles and living like them. Take into context who paul was speaking too and who Christ was speaking to.....

So paul had to tell em or remind them that witchcraft homosexuality warwomgering ect was not of God ( which goes back to the law) There was no need for Jesus to tell the jews in the land to dont practice homosexuality or idolatry or witchcraft, which were all punishable by death according to the law. Jesus said i have not come to undo the law to fulfill the law. He quoted the old testament saying i come in the volume of the book. Jesus was a hebrew living as a hebrew, everything from loving your enemy to the sabbath was found in the old testament

Revelation 21 6-7 the revelation of Jesus, straight from the horses mouth

He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. 7 Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. 8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.

That includes, incest, bestiality, homosexuality and adultery etc...stop the nonsense please

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Um.. homosexuality is clearly a sin

Romans 1:18-32

That's a condemnation of those who condemn others. Paul is using a literary/rhetorical device called prosopopoeia to establish a dialogue.​

 

[FLYINHAWAIIAN]

Mainly ethical

So how does that work, agreeing with a religion/god who says its okay to be unethical to animals and saying its fine to eat them?

 

[God Almighty]

2,000 years of hypocrisy.

 

[ORDER_66]

Because wasn't there fishermen back in the bible days that ate that seafood anyways?!?

 

[bigdaddy88]

Because wasn't there fishermen back in the bible days that ate that seafood anyways?!?

the hebrews ate seafood, you do know that shrimp lobsters crabs arent the only sea creatures right? the stupidity

the law does not prohibit sea food, CERTAIN FOODS THAT DO NOT MEET CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS to be considered clean

 

[valet]

He said all meat? So how can you say “of course we know we cant eat such this particular kind of meat”?

Human being was always forbidden. Nothing to do with dietary laws.

 

[Hacksaw Jim Thuggin]

They won't even wait to have sex Christians only practice what's convenient.

oh....

you mean they're human

people in general are filled with hypocrisies.....

thats not a christian thing....thats a human being thing

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

Human being was always forbidden. Nothing to do with dietary laws.

What scripture said its forbidden?

 

[valet]

What scripture said its forbidden?

Genesis 9 sets out the parameters for what humans can eat. It's animals. It says of human don't kill. Nowhere does it say that dead babies are acceptable food. That's not promoted in scripture.

9 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. 2 The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands. 3 Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

4 “But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. 5 And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.

6 “Whoever sheds human blood,
by humans shall their blood be shed;
for in the image of God
has God made mankind.

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

Genesis 9 sets out the parameters for what humans can eat. It's animals. It says of human don't kill. Nowhere does it say that dead babies are acceptable food. That's not promoted in scripture.

9 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. 2 The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands. 3 Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

4 “But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. 5 And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.

6 “Whoever sheds human blood,
by humans shall their blood be shed;
for in the image of God
has God made mankind.

So you run to the OT to find whats clean to eat, but disregard Leviticus when it gives exactly what to & not to consume. Ok Gotcha

Perfect example how people pick and choose what laws they want to follow. Dude talked about the NT doesnt have a dietary law, but ran to the OT to find a dietary law to prove his point

 

[valet]

So you run to the OT to find whats clean to eat, but disregard Leviticus when it gives exactly what to & not to consume. Ok Gotcha

Perfect example how people pick and choose what laws they want to follow. Dude talked about the NT doesnt have a dietary law, but ran to the OT to find a dietary law to prove his point

Genesis is before the Law breh. I ran to the old testament because irt speaks on the subject first. Before the Mosaic law. Now its back to the way it originally was before the Law.

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

Genesis is before the Law breh. I ran to the old testament because irt speaks on the subject first. Before the Mosaic law. Now its back to the way it originally was before the Law.

But you said the NT dont have any deitary laws, and we can eat whatever we want. Dont run to the OT now to find a dietary law. According to you then dont exist in the NT
Leviticus 17:10
If anyone from the house of Israel or a foreigner living among them eats any blood, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from among his people

God doesnt chabge bruh.
Malachi 3:6 - For I [am] the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

So if he ordered certain foods not to eat in the beginning, he damn sure aint change it in the NT