What food can Christians eat?

Answer 1

If "there are no limitations" on what Christians can eat, then we need to investigate "food" eaten by other people in the world & see if you would eat it. Would you eat rats? How about bats? How about bugs, roaches, worms, etc.? Would you eat them? If not, then this isn't an issue of what you think is food; it's an issue of what the God of the Bible says is food.

The teaching that it is okay to eat "unclean" exists because of a misunderstanding that has been passed down and is now "tradition" that is accepted as truth. A close investigation of Scripture (not tradition) shows that there is no change in the New Testament (NT) to the dietary instructions of God given in the beginning of the Bible.

Here is a list of the passages used to defend changing the dietary commands. From it you can easily see that this traditional teaching is not upheld from Scripture; it is the creation of man.

In Matthew 15:1-20, Jesus is discussing hand washing with Pharisees, not changing non-food into food. Verse 20 makes this clear:

"...but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man."

(Please get a Bible & read this passage, noting this verse is Jesus' summation of the discussion.)

However, men have inserted into many translations:

"(And thus Jesus declared all foods clean.)"

If you check with the original Greek, or even a King James Bible, you will not find this parenthetical clause; it was the addition of men - the editors of the other translations.

In Acts 10 (please read), Peter's vision was about MEN, not food. Jewish tradition was to not enter the home of a gentile because they and their home would be "unclean," as they did not follow God's instructions. The vision of the sheet with unclean items (v. 14-15, "unholy or unclean") uses the same terminology that Peter uses in verse 28, proving this point:

28) "And he (Peter) said to them (gentiles), 'You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a man who is a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit him; and yet God has shown me that I should not call any man unholy or unclean.'"

The whole point of the vision was that gentiles were to be included in the covenant, not to change non-food to food.

1 Timothy 4:1-5 talks about eating what God created to be eaten, and that everything God created to be eaten was good.

The word "food" in this passage is the Greek word broma which means:

broma, bro'-mah; food (lit. or fig.), espec. certain allowed or forbidden by the Jewish law. (Strong's definition, broma, #1033).

Paul's warning was that in the last days men would teach that people should not eat what God calls food, such as chicken or beef or fish. This has nothing to do with turning what God calls non-food into food. Note: this is the same God who states He never changes. (Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 13:8)

Therefore, this passage in 1 Timothy is talking about eating what is allowed under the dietary commands of God and avoiding what is forbidden by them.

The bottom line is this: Christians are supposed to be Christ-like. If Jesus did it, we do it. If He didn't we don't.

There is no record of Jesus or the disciples ever eating anything unclean. If the dietary commandments had been changed, don't you think God would have given at least ONE example of His Son eating something unclean as an example to us that we could?

Since no such example exists, and since we've seen that the Scripture does not support this teaching, then this is the teaching of men (tradition) not the teaching of an unchanging God.

Original Posting:

There is not a single thing christians can or cannot eat. There are no limitations when it comes to food.

First of all God says that we can eat whatever we want but if you really want to know it starts in Leviticus 11 of what kind food is clean and unclean.

According to the Bible there are no foods that Christians cannot eat.

Answer 2

Genesis 9:3 tells us that " Every moving animal that is alive may serve as food."

Answer 3

Catholics, a form of Christianity, are supposed to not eat meat on some holy days. They are also supposed to not eat for one hour before taking Communion.

Answer 4

A minority in Christianity, with many called Evangelicals, follow Christ's and the Apostles example of the 1st Century and adhere to the Dietary Laws found in Leviticus 11 to this day.