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Originally Posted by Pastor Isaac Peters
Now that we're approaching barbecue season, we need to be careful, lest a seemingly innocent act should outrage the Almighty. I am talking, of course, about eating bloody steaks.
When Noah left the Ark, God gave him laws, including the following:
Genesis 9:4: But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Since this law was given to Noah, we cannot ignore it as part of the old Jewish covenant. Instead, it applies to the descendants of Noah, i.e., to everyone.
In fact, it was reiterated during New Testament times and specifically indicated as applying to Gentiles by the command of the Holy Ghost:
Acts 15:19-20: Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and [from] fornication, and [from] things strangled, and [from] blood.
Acts 15:28-29: For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Acts 21:25: As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written [and] concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from [things] offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
So be sure that you don't enrage the Holy Ghost by eating anything with blood in it. All meats sold in Freehold County grocery stores are certified to have had all the blood drained and not to come from animals that were strangled or sacrificed to idols.
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I apologize for reopening this rather old thread, but there are some issues that I couldn't find addressed anywhere on the forum, and they are closely related to this topic.
In Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 God has provided us with detailed descriptions what we can and cannot eat, e.g.:
Leviticus 11:7 And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.
Leviticus 11:12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination to you.
Leviticus 11:29-30 mentions snails and tortoises to be unclean.
Deuteronomy 14 basically repeats the same rules, but then God also tells us how to dispose of unclean meat of an animal that is on the "to eat" list, but became unclean by dying of natural causes:
Deuteronomy 14:21
Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God.
Praise the Lord, as He in His wisdom doesn't want us to waste anything!