Why is it ok to eat shrimp but not to be gay??

[Bendito]

LOL I love this question!! Look my friend.....Homosexuality is a sin. Still God loves the person even while hating the sin. Thus we do too. We love the person and hate the sin.
Shrimp on the other hand are not sin. They are food and God declared many foods good after Jesus died for us and rose again. Look here:
Acts 10:10-15 (CJB)
10 He began to feel hungry and wanted something to eat; but while they were preparing the meal, he fell into a trance 11 in which he saw heaven opened, and something that looked like a large sheet being lowered to the ground by its four corners. 12 In it were all kinds of four-footed animals, crawling creatures and wild birds. 13 Then a voice came to him, “Get up, Kefa, slaughter and eat!” 14 But Kefa said, “No, sir! Absolutely not! I have never eaten food that was unclean or treif.” 15 The voice spoke to him a second time: “Stop treating as unclean what God has made clean.”
So here's Kefa, Peter.. On the rood praying and getting faint with hunger and what happens? God lowered a vessel with all these formerly forbidden foods (say that fast 3 times) are now allowed. That took Peter by surprise! So there is no hypocrisy involved. Does this answer?

Roof I meant roof sorry!

 

[RJ]

Deuteronomy 14:9-10
“Of all that are in the waters you may eat these: whatever has fins and scales you may eat. And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you."

This is what it is absolutely not eat shrimp for God but many Christians do it anyways.
And the Christians who eat shrimp also dislike homosexuality and says that God does not like homosexuals , but God does not like shrimp just as gays Is not it a bit hypocritical ??

Sorry for my English but I have wondered about this so long and now someone can answer my question!
Appreciate all answers!
God bless

• We no longer live under the Old Covenant but the New, where by there are no food restrictions, like pork, and everything is permitted but not everything is profitable.
• Not sure what shrimp or eating restrictions has to do with homosexuality. Nevertheless, Homosexuality is legal by most secular standards, but it is not profitable to be a Christian and be unrepentant for a sin.

 

[Bendito]

• We no longer live under the Old Covenant but the New, where by there are no food restrictions, like pork, and everything is permitted but not everything is profitable.
• Not sure what shrimp or eating restrictions has to do with homosexuality. Nevertheless, Homosexuality is legal by most secular standards, but it is not profitable to be a Christian and be unrepentant for a sin.

As you said.."Secular"

 

[dh charles]

We can eat shrimp until the cows come home because we are not Israelites who could fall ill by eating them. They are scavengers of the sea and can cause one to get sick. Israelites were in a health and fitness program that God had set up for them to preserve and protect them. Do you know that even their shoes and clothing didn't wear out during that entire 40 years?

Today we have good cleaning, storage and cooking methods that kill bacteria. We are not wandering in the wilderness today, nor are we under that set of rules any more. We are free to eat any thing that once was declared unclean.

Go for it. Don't bind yourself up with needless things.

As for homosexuality, the harm in it is still in existence. The soul is destroyed in those who go against God's best for them in such a degrading way.

God called all foods that had the potential to cause health problems UNCLEAN. BY adhering to His dietary laws, lives were elongated, and preserved from sickness or from just basic wearing out, for the many years they sojourned in the desert.

The book, "The Maker's Diet" fully details this, and it is amazing how people who actually follow the way of eating prescribed for Israel experience new levels of vibrant health and even healing.

 

[dh charles]

As I was doing a theat calling it experieces...............sharing my religious experiece on two occations. For some reason it came upon me that I was unduly rude to you. I am sorry and I promise to change my attitude about it all.

 

[RJ]

As you said.."Secular"

Yes, Bendito, so what was your point?

 

[Bendito]

Yes, Bendito, so what was your point?

I believe the conversation was relating to a spiritual point of view, rather than a secular legal viewpoint? What the law of the land allows is not necessarily what God condones.

 

[RJ]

I believe the conversation was relating to a spiritual point of view, rather than a secular legal viewpoint? What the law of the land allows is not necessarily what God condones.

O.K., I agree, it rarely does!

 

[Ophel]

As I was doing a theat calling it experieces...............sharing my religious experiece on two occations. For some reason it came upon me that I was unduly rude to you. I am sorry and I promise to change my attitude about it all.

To whom are you speaking?

 

[Dovegiven]

God called all foods that had the potential to cause health problems UNCLEAN. BY adhering to His dietary laws, lives were elongated, and preserved from sickness or from just basic wearing out, for the many years they sojourned in the desert.

The book, "The Maker's Diet" fully details this, and it is amazing how people who actually follow the way of eating prescribed for Israel experience new levels of vibrant health and even healing.

Ah HA! You get that from a book, not the Bible. Understood now.

 

[Ophel]

AH HA! I get it from studying and also understanding the word.

 

[Christ4Ever]

@Dovegiven @Ophel

Awesome when a Brother and Sister in Christ can have an exchange and "Ah HA" each in love!!!
:laugh:

 

[Dovegiven]

1 Timothy 4:1-5 (KJV)
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

 

[Dovegiven]

It never was nor has been with Jesus to make "love" equal with ignoring truth. God doesn't do it, neither should we. The statements I replied to are error, false teaching. It isn't a matter of my opinion. I supplied sufficient scripture to establish truth. Is truth less honorable than "peace"?

Is compromise of truth a standard here? Is that the basis of us getting along with each other? Must I "play" around here with truth in the interest of "PC", to demonstrate "love"?

 

[Ophel]

It never was nor has been with Jesus to make "love" equal with ignoring truth. God doesn't do it, neither should we. The statements I replied to are error, false teaching. It isn't a matter of my opinion. I supplied sufficient scripture to establish truth. Is truth less honorable than "peace"?

Is compromise of truth a standard here? Is that the basis of us getting along with each other? Must I "play" around here with truth in the interest of "PC", to demonstrate "love"?

I do not subscribe to false teaching. I am very careful about that. Don't be so quick to judge, sir.

 

[Dovegiven]

I do not subscribe to false teaching. I am very careful about that. Don't be so quick to judge, sir.

The whole world has access to what we say here. I was under the impression that Bible truth is the priority. Where in the Bible does God say he instituted the diet commandments on the basis of health? The Bible is silent about that, and so is modern science concerning shrimp in general. The only scientific prohibitions for shrimp concern "point pollution" areas where they feed in waters contaminated by petrols, radiation, and other concentrated pollutants that were not likely a problem in Moses' days.

The Bible makes it clear those commandments were for Judaism only, as a means of distinguishing those tribes from the Gentile tribes. It was a matter of religious rite, to not consume flesh not on the list of suitable animals to sacrifice. Even so, Moses permitted the tribes to eat unclean animals as necessary while conquering Canaan. While permitted to eat those, the requirements for animal sacrifice remained steadfast.

Teaching not to eat certain foods is opposed to the New Covenant, opposed to major New Testament doctrine. That's a sign of opponents of Christ, who favor putting Gentiles under the old law. That is always false teaching. That is proved by willful resistance to answering to 1 Timothy4:1-5.

 

[kenod]

The Bible doesn't say the Law imposed dietary restrictions on the basis of health. The whole of it, including the dietary commands, were put in place to distinguish the Hebrews from the other nations, and were all commands to be obeyed simply out of covenant relationship with God in a way not possible outside Israel.

That is a view certainly worth considering though generally I have found God's instructions have spiritual implications that go beyond simple obedience.

 

[Ophel]

God instituted dietary laws for health reasons as is svientifically borne out through the understanding we gain by study regarding what certain foods do in the body. Spiritually, at the same time, God was setting His people apart. Yet His people had optimal health and resistance to disease and infection because of their particular diet.

It's all good.

 

[kenod]

God instituted dietary laws for health reasons as is svientifically borne out through the understanding we gain by study regarding what certain foods do in the body. Spiritually, at the same time, God was setting His people apart. Yet His people had optimal health and resistance to disease and infection because of their particular diet.

It's all good.

I have noticed that eating is used as a spiritual metaphor in the Bible so being selective in what a person eats parallels being selective about what we believe. I see spiritual implications in a great many natural activities - for example, the reason I believe homosexuality is sinful is because marriage & sex have spiritual meanings.

 

[Ophel]

I have noticed that eating is used as a spiritual metaphor in the Bible so being selective in what a person eats parallels being selective about what we believe. I see spiritual implications in a great many natural activities - for example, the reason I believe homosexuality is sinful is because marriage & sex have spiritual meanings.

Yes, and also God lays down specific parameters for us with regard to sexuality, lest we defile ourselves.