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Does the Bible allow us to eat ANYTHING we want?
If not, what foods should we not eat? Q. Can we eat anything we'd like to eat on the Earth? If not, what are we allowed to eat and not eat? (Submitted by: J. J. ) A. Of course we can eat anything we desire. How about a salad laced with arsenic? Or maybe gobble down what you find behind the barn? The reality is, Joanna, God won't stop us from eating anything, but he has given us a menu of what's good for us and what isn't. God told Noah, "Every moving thing that lives shall be meat for you; even -- in the same way -- as the green herb have I given you all things" ( Genesis 9:3). You know the arsenic salad would knock you dead in short order. Certain green herbs, such as digitalis and deadly nightshade, will do the same thing. So we know not to eat them. In the same way there are moving things that live which are not good for us. We have terrible illnesses with no apparent cause. But the flesh of certain animals slowly breaks down the human system bringing on disease. Ingestion of the genetic code of such animals may be the cause of genetic mutation in the human body. Yet, like the plants, there is much flesh we can eat with no adverse results. God knows which animals are harmful to the human body. Because he loves us he revealed which ones they are. Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 gives God's dietary plan for man. Between the two it's pretty easy to determine that deer and cattle are good for food; that pigs and alligators are not. |
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