Do Christians get enough to eat?
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since America is predomiately Christian & America is also incredibly FAT, with what, something like 2/3 of all adults being overweight...I think that answers your question!\n\nas for the stale taste...why do you think they serve them with wine? HAH!
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Jesus himself said "You must eat my flesh and drink my blood to enter the kingdom of heaven" It is a spiritial food, not a food to curve our hunger. Only the devil himself would ask a deceiving question like that.
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Ok here is a try.  A guy told me this the other day...\n\nThese 3 pastors enjoyed going around to elderly people's homes and sharing religous inspirations with them.  They felt they had to do this, as a lot of old folks couldn't make it out of the house.\n\nOne day the 3 pastors stopped by an elderly woman's house.  She was really excited to see them, as she doesn't get any visitors except for her son who drops off groceries once a week.\n\nShe invited the pastors in and welcomed them to sit in her living room.  The pastors began reading versus to her and did their usual thing.\n\nOne of the pastors spotted a bowl of peanuts on the table and began eating them.  As time went on and they spoke with the lady about religion, an hour had passed in no time.  The pastor eating the peanuts realized that he had nearly finished off the entire bowl.  The pastor was embarrased as he could tell the elderly lady didn't have much money and probably had a hard time affording food.\n\nThe pastor apologized to the lady for eating nearly her whole bowl of peanuts.  He assured her, he would replace them the next day.\n\nThe elderly lady replied "Don't worry about it, since I lost my teeth years ago...I haven't been able to eat chocolate covered peanuts.  I only suck the chocolate off of them!"
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It might be an idea to ask them...\n\nFor me personally fasting is not simply a matter of unthinking obedience, in itself it is a real spiritual preparation for any holy day. Jesus said that we can't live on bread (meaning food generally) alone. (Matthew Ch 4 verse 4).\n\nWe often forget we are spiritual beings as much as physical ones and, for me, fasting (and contemplating God's word at the same time) is a way of both honouring or respecting that fact while at the same time nourishing the soul.\n\nEven in living memory it was customary not to eat anything on Sunday before taking communion (Eucharist) for the same sort of reason.
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I guess they think they will get more cookies at snack time for the more people they recruit.  But they aren't the only ones.  I keep getting recruitment letters from  Muslims as well, 'trying to make me understand'.  HA!  Not happening and I tell them that.  It just seems like Christians do it most because, especially in the US, they have the most followers.  I don't think they really realize they are just driving us further away.
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Most say no, the Bible doesn't say that Christians must partake of the Lord's supper every Sunday.  A small minority say yes.  \n\nI go to a Church of Christ, and I don't know if it is the case where folks believe that we are commanded to do it every Sunday or that we do it because it is good to do so.  \n\nThose that say yes point to Acts 20:7 as indicating it should be done every Sunday ("Now upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread . . . .").  But, again, the vast majority don't see any explicit teaching on how often.  \n\nA good article on this is at:\n\nhttp://spindleworks.com/library/aasman/lshowmany.htm\n\nThere are those out there who say the Lord's Supper should be observed annually because the first Lord's supper was at Passover time and Passover comes once a year.  I think this is way off.  The Lord's Supper is in rememberance of Jesus, not in rememberance of passover.  And Jesus said "as often as you will," not "at the same frequency as Passover comes."
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Concentrate on Fruits & Vegetables + Proteine. Walk & drink water a lot. Read about the healthy food mentioned in the Bible. You will be happy to learn that God loves you & wants you to be healthy. Blessings.
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It depends what you mean by starving, and for how long.\n\nMany religions practice limited starving, or fasting, for the purpose of trying to increase ones mental or spiritual will.\n\nBut long term would be murder. lol
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It's not about HOW MUCH you eat. It's about whether you are doing it in Christ, or in your flesh.\n\nIf you are eating greedily, selfishly, hogging food, eating to the point that it's truly unhealthy, eating to the point that others go hungry, or eat in some other way motivated only by your flesh, then that is gluttony.\n\nBut the Bible says that whatever you do in word or deed, do in Jesus' name and for God's glory. "The food for the stomach, and the stomach for food, but God will destroy them both!"\n\nWhen you eat, remember to give thanks to God. And then eat with thankfulness, enjoy your food knowing that God has provided it. Remember that there are people who don't have any, and show compassion as you are able. Share what you have, food or otherwise, and don't be greedy. Greed is the determining factor in gluttony, not mere amount, although an excessive amount is symptomatic of greed. When you eat, or do anything, give God the glory and do it for Him.
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WHY CAN'T PEOPLE DIGEST HARD FOOD IN THE SPIRIT?\n\nWow.  well...Mr.Opinion.  Your question asks a direct question to everyone.\n\nHave you not digested the fact that all Christians are not the same Spiritual fortitude? not all Christians are eating hard food?  some eat manna? I believe it is called, Spiritual growth. As a Christian man, giving his humble opinion, I would think you would know this.\n\nWhy is a 6 year old in the 1st grade and a 16 year old a sophomore in High School?\n\nJust because a person is 50 years old, and a new Christian makes them a 1st grader.  Now....if you want to reword your question. I'll explain that one also.\n\nI DON'T KNOW WHAT CULT...YOU PRACTICE.  I SUGGEST YOU GET TO KNOW JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR.
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Not all charities deal with hunger.  The catholic church is a frequent location for the donations.  The church has numerous  employees at every church as well as support staff at the diocese level and at the Vatican.  Most of these staff members are salaried while the Priests & etc have most of their expenses paid for through these donations.  The staff members are to be treated like members of any business and receive pension and health care adding additional costs.  Other costs that individual churches have include heating and cooling costs.  If you think your heating bills are bad, think of a large building with lots of windows and doors frequently being opened.\n\nThe church itself has numerous missions besides just feeding the hungry.  Frequently churches have nurses on staff to visit the elderly home bound and others who may need help in administering special medication and cannot afford nursing homes or a onsite nurse.  There are frequently nuns on paid staff that visit the ill, the dying, etc.   Some churches have other ministries as well depending on the local area.  \n\nCatholics are also big on right to life and spend considerable resources attempting to deny people's right to choose.  They are also suppose to be opposed to the death penalty and also working against the archaic penalty but is nomally the work of a few individuals.\n\nAll of these different things I have mentioned are just a few of the items that the church works on as well as hunger.  That being said, Catholics are individuals and also give to other charities that they have personal interests in.  From cancer research to colleges, it all stretches the dollar even further.\n\n\n\n\nEverywhere I have been, the protestants have tended to have much more open pocketbooks.  It may have something to do with the silly notion that catholics have that every sperm is sacred and thus have more kids.  The point is, everyone overlooks the most needy, not just Catholics.
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Christians and Catholics have two different religions all together.  So you should get many varied responses.  I am a Christian and have the freedom to eat what ever meat I want all year long.  I do however tend to eat pork sparingly because of the lack of sweat glands on pigs.  Pork really isn't good for your body.  In general, my family eats mostly boneless, skinless chicken breast due to my husbands health, but other cuts of lean meat about once sometimes twice a week.\n\nSometimes Christians choose to give up a favorite food or activity, like soda or golfing, just to remember what God did for them and to draw closer to Him, but that is not in the Bible.  It is a man made practice\n\nMost Catholics give something up for lent, but I'm not sure if it is "required" by their church or not.  I do know that they are not allowed to eat meat on Ash Wednesday or Fridays during lent.  \n\nI hope this helps.
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There were different viewpoints in the early Christian church on this issue.  Some felt that in order to be a Christian, you had to first become Jewish and keep all the Jewish laws with perhaps the exception of the sacrifices.  Others felt that you did not have to follow all the Jewish laws, but that certain ones ought to be kept, such as the Jewish calendar (Holidays), the moral laws, and dietary laws.  Others, and Paul is in this group, felt that one did not have to keep any of the Jewish laws except for the laws of morality.  \n\nPaul has the largest influence in the New Testament, and therefore most Christians do not feel any obligation to keep the dietary laws.  But understand that Paul did not view the Torah (Law) as totally bad.  He felt that it was good for teaching us what sin is.  And he also felt that it was not bad in itself, but Paul did object to the way the "Judaizers" (those of the first 2 groups I mentioned) VIEWED the law.  Paul taught that the law is well and good, but it does not lead to salvation.  You are justified by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.  And that is your salvation, not works of the law.\n\nSo here is my advice:  If you agree with Paul, then I think you may keep the dietary laws or other laws of the Torah, JUST AS LONG as you do not begin to think that it is by the performance of that law that you have salvation.  Salvation is by the grace of God through your faith in Jesus.\nThat's Paul.\n\nNow, my opinion:  Our body is a temple (Paul also agrees with this concept) and therefore we are to take care of it and keep it pure.  So if you believe that by keeping the dietary laws, you will be healthier, then I say by all means, you should do that.  But honestly we do not know for sure why those Laws were ever given.  The Bible does not say to follow those dietary laws so that you will be healthier, but so that you will be "holy."  If the Bible was trying to give you a diet for good health, it should have prohibited eggs and poison mushrooms.  But it does not.  And furthermore, eating meat is not considered the healthiest diet.  The original plan of God in the Bible seems to be vegetarianism.  Remember that before Noah, God gave the people "every herb of the trees, etc" as food.  It was a vegetarian system.  But after Noah, then God allowed meat-eating, but it can almost be seen as a concession.  The Jewish interpretation is that God saw how wicked man was and that he just wasn't good enought that God could expect them to be strict vegetarians.  So he said, Ok, you can eat meat, just so long as you do not eat the blood, etc.\n\nThe only reason that the Bible gives for the dietary laws is so that "you will be holy, as I the Lord your God am holy."  In Hebrew, the word holy carries the connotation of set apart.  It has been speculated that God was trying to set the Jewish people apart from the surrounding nations.  Many of them sacrificed pigs for example.  And God forbade the Israelites from this, so that they would not be like the surrounding nations, and perhaps because the pig was seen as dirty (understandably!).  \n\nIn some times and places, people have to rely on meat-eating to survive.  But I think that the ideal is vegetarianism.  According to the Bible, God gave humans dominion over the animals......but does dominion mean we have to be cruel rulers?  I think that if we are capable we should be vegetarians.  But if you are in a time and place where that is not possible, then God of course would understand.  But that is just my opinion.\n\nMy brother has a neat little book called, "What Would Jesus Eat?"  You might really enjoy that!  It talks about the diet of that time period.  And it was a whole lot healthier than what we eat!  They ate little meat, and a lot of whole grains and legumes.  They did eat a lot of fish of course, being in the Galilee.
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no there isnt but u should know better then to eat at church girlfriend. it is disrespectfull to others and to god it doesnt takt a genious to know that sss
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The passage that describes how giving should be done under the New Covenant of grace is as follows:\n\n"But I say this, He who sows sparingly shall also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully shall also reap bountifully. Each one, as he purposes in his heart, let him give; not of grief, or of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that in everything, always having all self-sufficiency, you may abound to every good work; As it is written, "He scattered; he has given to the poor; his righteousness remains forever." Now He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for eating, may He supply and multiply your seed, and increase the fruits of your righteousness you being enriched in everything to all generosity, which works out thanksgiving to God through us. \n(2 Corinthians 9:6-11)\n\nGod loves a "cheerful" giver, not a person who gives grudgingly. Many Christians feel that a tithe is too little to give back to the Kingdom work of Christ when they consider how much He has done for them.\n\nGod doesn't want or need your money if you don't give it in faith that He will honor you by supplying all of your needs in return.\n\n"But my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. \n(Philippians 4:19)\n\n"Therefore do not be anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, With what shall we be clothed? For the nations seek after all these things. For your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you. \n(Matthew 6:31-33)
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Some of those 'Poor' might surprise you by saying THEY are the lucky ones. \nHaving nothing, gives one everything to gain...\n\n:)\n\nA note for those that are blinded by faith(ie:threebluespiders):\n According to the bible when the Israelites wandered in the desert for forty years, god fed them by making food fall regularly from the sky (Ex16:4). During the 1980's, several million Ethiopian Christians died slowly and painfully from starvation due to a prolonged drought. god had then the opportunity to make food fall from the sky, as the bible claims he did in the past, so why did he not do that again?\n\nSome will try to free god from responsibility for evil by saying that it was not god but the devil. This may be true but if god is so loving why didn't he simply prevent the devil from doing this? In any case, who created the devil in the first place? Surely it was god.
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Maybe you could ask if you could attend service or a church function with him.  Or if you want to go out on a regular date, just ask him.  Christians are just people, and they enjoy going out too.  There may be places that They care not to go, but dinner is always a good idea! Hey, the man's gotta eat, right? I hope it goes well!