THIS IS HOW I EATClean, Common, Unclean |
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See also the extended training To Eat or Not to Eat I used to go out to eat with Christians a lot. The Holy Spirit almost always brings up the eating ordinances with my co-eaters. Sometimes there is interested inquiry but usually there is veiled hostility behind the questions, outright jokes about my belief, or comments about the latest diets or health kicks. How and what I eat is my business. It is you who ask. So I will tell you I believe that Jews and non-Jews alike (who covenant with Yahweh) ought to eat according to the food ordinances in Scripture. I have an excellent teaching through scripture on this subject you can find at here based on Eddie Chumney's and my own observations. If you want to be biblical, go to Scripture. Study it through. Don't just take a few texts from Paul or a couple lines from the sheet dream of Peter so as to build up unsound doctrines. Study the matter through to the obvious conclusion. I would like to eat in accordance with Yahweh's wishes. And I'm sure I'll get there, but at the present time, fulfilling these commandments in their entirety is impossible. Here's why, and here's what I do for now. I want to limit this word to meat - there are also clean and unclean vegetables. But pig meat and shrimp - well, people can't seem to do without these no matter who says so. The way I understand it, there are three kinds of meat in the New Testament: Clean (kahartoV), Common (koinoV) and Unclean (akahartoV) (Acts 10:14). One can eat Clean only if the animal you eat is a clean animal killed and prepared according to scriptural standards of cleanliness. This is why I can't eat kosher at this time - I don't kill these animals and there have been no kosher butchers where I've lived. This is part of the problem Shaul the Apostle had with the Gentiles he was bringing in, and the dispute about meats sacrificed to idols (though not all of the problem). No kosher butchers - no kosher eating. So at the present I eat COMMON. Common meat is clean meat that may not have been prepared by scriptural standards. I never knowingly eat any unclean meat. (Remembering that clean meat becomes unclean if cooked with unclean meat, and vegetables become unclean if cooked with unclean meat or meat products.) What I eat, I eat unto Yahweh. In conjunction with food, Shaul wrote, Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. Also in the same section: He who abstains, abstains in honor of the Master and gives thanks to Elohim. Finally, do you suppose that Peter, who after his sheet said, "Not so, Sovereign, I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean," would go out and have himself a satisfying meal of behemoth or leviathan? No way. These things were repugnant to him and would always be repugnant to him. Just as repugnant to him as to Yahweh, who said, "These are abominable to me." Study the matter of SCRIPTURAL EATING. You can eat COMMON, be continually blessed for it, and have a ready opportunity to witness at the same time. Here's a link to Rabbi Leff's "Eating Dairy Meals in Unsupervised Restaurants": http://www.jacksonsnyder.org/arc/Midrash/dairyteshuvav3.htm - very interesting from a Conservative Rabbi's point of view. Here's someone's lesson, "Why I Keep Kosher" that gives a good rundown of the subject, again from a Jewish point of view. http://www.jacksonsnyder.org/arc/hebraic/kashrut.htm Here's that link to my study
again: Yahweh bless you as you do everything in your ability to honor him. |
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Jackson Snyder (801) 605-1715 Vero Beach, FL |
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