Does what you eat relate to your faith?

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Do you intentionally eat based on your faith? (In other words, is their a faith basis to your diet?)
 
There are some dietary restrictions during Lent. Although I tend to carry those restrictions the whole year, I’d have to say overall my faith does affect what I eat.
 
bacon. pork, shellfish, lamb. beef ;

it is all allowed according to the New Teatament
 
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I abstain from drinking alcohol. I prayed about it and the Lord said that He’s not OK with me drinking alcohol. He may allow others to do it, but for me personally, He doesn’t want me to touch it.
 
I don’t celebrate the Eucharist. I’m not a catholic.
 
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If I eat too much or too heavy a food I can’t pray well.I feel lathargic and it affects my spiritual life.That’s just how I am 🙂
 
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drac16 said…
I abstain from drinking alcohol.
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The Eucharist doesn’t actually contain alcohol. Just the properties of alcohol. I drink alcohol so rarely I can almost call myself a teetotaller – but since the Eucharist is flesh and blood, and no longer bread and wine, I don’t count that as drinking alcohol. Because it’s not. (BTW the reason I almost never drink alcohol is not because I have anything against it on faith grounds – I think it’s a good and wonderful creation and I’m sure it is pleasant to boot, for others – but rather because I haven’t yet found an alcoholic beverage with a taste that is pleasent to me.)
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Interesting question. This will be my first Lent abstaining from meat on Ash Wednesday and Fridays. But I have a body that has certain dietary restrictions anyways. And yet, perhaps there is something in a well nourished body that aides in well nourishment of soul. 😊
 
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… My daughter!

(no disrespect intended to your dad)
 
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My mistake.

I’ve actually heard that a lot of christian denominations, while not considering alcohol sinful, still discourage it’s use. If I may ask why do you feel called to abstain? Do you do it out of fear that it would cause you to spiritually stumble, or is it to show solidarity with people whose lives are ruined by alcohol?
 
Actually it usually does contain pure wine (even if it is also the blood of God). While it can be substituted with mustum, usually that’s only done in special circumstances (such as of the Priest is a recovered alcoholic).

Source: Sacramental wine - Wikipedia
 
Yes,especially,to observe abstaining on the days prescribed by the Catholic Church, on Ash Wednesday and Fridays of Lent and also food offered to idols and food cooked in blood.

Acts 15:28 For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose on you no further burden than these essentials: 29 that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”
 
Does any know? is it OK for Christians to eat Halal food? i have second thought,whenever i see food cans in supermarkets or restaurants putting up sign or labels ,halal food served here etc .Please post you thoughts and comments, it would be interesting to know here in CAF
 
I think most of the lamb we eat here is Halal ,it’s sold in supermarkets as well as butchers and maybe unmarked don’t know.Beef unsure.
 
I didn’t know anything about it,i just googled it,and found it is dedicated food,thanks for you explanation,but is it ok or not ? I guess we should pray and just bless the food and eat it.
 
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Does any know? is it OK for Christians to eat Halal food?
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It is okay. I looked into it some time ago. What concerns some people is that a short blessing is uttered when the animal is killed: “Bismillah,” the Arabic for “In the name of God.”

Not surprisingly, threads here at CAF have failed to reach a consensus, but I tend to side with the Catholic Church, which teaches that the God of Islam is the same God of our faith, so the Halal ritual does not constitute a ritual sacrifice to a false god, but rather calls upon the one, true God.

Yes. I love the way St. Paul wrote about that in 1 Corinthians 8 (the whole chapter) and again in 1 Corinthians 10:23-33. I believe these passages do not restrict us from eating Halal food, for the reason I stated above.
 
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