What does the Bible say about eating meat sacrificed to idols?

But the man who loves God is known by God. So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world and that there is no God but one. But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.

What does Leviticus say about eating meat?

Bible Gateway Leviticus 11 :: NIV. You may eat any animal that has a split hoof completely divided and that chews the cud. “`There are some that only chew the cud or only have a split hoof, but you must not eat them. You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.

Where in the Bible does it talk about not eating meat?

Leviticus 19 “Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it.”

What does the New Testament say about what we can eat?

In the New Testament, Jesus swept away these rules when He “declared all foods clean” (Mark 7:18-19): “There is nothing outside the man which can defile him if it goes into him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man.”

Why did God let us eat meat?

God wanted to make it difficult for us to eat meat, in hopes that we wouldn’t eat too much of it. You can only eat certain animals slaughtered under certain conditions.

Does the Book of acts prohibit strangled meat?

We mentioned that commentators struggle with Acts 15:20, 29; and 21:25 because the prohibition against eating strangled meat (a seemingly ceremonial law) is side by side an obviously moral law (abstaining from sexual immorality).

What does the Bible say about eating meat that is strangled?

Blood that is still inside an animal after slaughter is not to be eaten This is where “meat that is strangled” comes into play; for strangled meat, has not been properly drained of its blood. And God forbids the eating of blood. When a person slaughters an animal, they are to drain the blood.

What does the Torah say about eating animals killed before slaughter?

I don’t see anything in the Torah that says an animal must be slaughtered before eating it instead of strangled to death. Acts 15:20 (KJV) But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and [from] fornication, and [from] things strangled, and [from] blood.

Acts 15:29, NIV: “You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.” Acts 15:29, ESV: “that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality.