religious beliefs on eating and drinking?
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The Old Testament prescribes a little wine for depression and for the stomache ache, but cautions against drunkeness.\n\nThe New Testaament tells us that Jesus made wine, good wine, for a wedding,  That's why we believe marriage is holy but drinking is a sin. (Yeah, I know.  I don't understand it, either.)
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having alchoholic beverages isn't bad. but having it fill you, that's the bad thing thing. christians are not advised to it due to our human nature having things that is too much for us. it is advised in the Ephesians to "..be filled of the Holy Spirit instead of wine." Timothy was a disciple of Paul yet Paul advised Him to take a LITLLE wine to improve his health. 'drinking" isn't prohibited in christianity, it is BEING DRUNK that is being abominated.
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You do find so much rubbish in answer to sensible questions!\n\nThe early Church were under a new covenenant, the blood of Jesus, and so the strict rules of the old one, which everyone failed at anyway, were void.\n\nActs 15:29 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.\n\nPork is back on the menu!
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You see what you want. Qur'an talks about the alcohol and it is forbidden,just because it makes you drunk. A muslim should never be drunk, but awake and fresh! Rivers of wine is explaned as a source of drink which gives pleasure but it doesn't say it gonna make you drunk! I also want ot add that alcohol is forbidden completely. There isn't some thing like more 100 mililiter is forbidden or something. It is forbidden completely. If something makes you drunk or etc. , it is forbidden. This is about principles.
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A man was once asked why he did not drink, and he replied, 'By God, I am not happy with my mind when it is sound, so why should I corrupt it even further?' - The Seventy-seven Branches of Faith - Imam Al-Bayhaqi, The Quillian Press - (1996, ISBN 1 872038 03 4) - Page 31\n\n    Alcohol is detrimental to your health especially your liver. Alcohol befogs the mind and prevents rational thinking. Alcohol causes road accidents and innocent lives lost. Alcohol increases the occurance of domestic violence. Alcohol addiction causes financial ruin.\n\n    The Holy Quran, 2.219: They ask thee concerning wine and gambling. Say: "In them is great sin, and some profit, for men; but the sin is greater than the profit." They ask thee how much they are to spend; Say: "What is beyond your needs." Thus doth Allah Make clear to you His Signs: In order that ye may consider.\n\n    The Holy Quran, 5.90: O ye who believe! Intoxicants and gambling, (dedication of) stones, and (divination by) arrows, are an abomination,- of Satan's handwork: eschew such (abomination), that ye may prosper.\n\n    The Holy Quran, 5.91: Satan's plan is (but) to excite enmity and hatred between you, with intoxicants and gambling, and hinder you from the remembrance of Allah, and from prayer: will ye not then abstain?\n\n    Many of grow up in societies where drinking is second nature to most people. Alcohol is staple in some societies, among an increasing number of people. It is also becoming an irreplaceable component of "having fun" and partying. No get together seems complete without alcohol. Tequila shots over the bar counter, vodka and vodka lime for beginners.\n\n    "Let's go have fun tonight" is being replaced by "Let's go get pissed drunk tonight."\n\n    It can be difficult to deal with an environment where peer pressure is overpowering - which is almost always is. But consider this: Drunk people embarrass themselves in public and in front of friends. They have little control their actions or their words. One friend of mine nearly died because he walked onto a busy street in his drunken stupor. Another friend was raped by her boyfriend while she was asleep/hungover.\n\n    You have a million reasons to stop drinking - not just for yourself but for your friends and family...and especially the innocent stranger who might get hurt by your actions during a drunken stupor. You'll feel healthier - it's a guarantee and you'll save money to do other cool stuff.\n\n    God gives us instructions because He is All Knowing. Everything in Islam has a practical and healthy reason behind it..some of which we are aware of and others we're not but they're for our own good. God says in the Holy Quran - there is some good in alcohol but the bad outweighs the good.\n\n\n\nNow about pigs,\n\n"You are what you eat" - Native American proverb\n\nIn folklore terms, eating the meat of the pig is said to contribute to lack of morality and shame, plus greed for wealth, laziness, indulgence, dirtiness and gluttony. We insult a person by calling him or her a "Pig" when they demonstrate these characteristics. Muslims are forbidden by God to eat the meat of the pig (pork).\n\nThis is detailed in verses 2:173, 5:3, 6:145, and 16:115 of the Qur'an. An exemplary verse is quoted here: "He has only forbidden you dead meat, and blood, and the flesh of swine, and any (food) over which the name of other than Allah has been invoked. But if one is forced by necessity, without willful disobedience, nor transgressing due limits, then Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful."\n\nIs Pork Forbidden to Muslims Only?\n\nThe Jews and Christians are also forbidden from eating pork. Here is a quote from the Old Testament to that effect: "And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead c
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To say that God didnt allow people to eat these things anciently because of no refridgeration or anything like that is absurd.  If you believe that then you would have to agree that God is not all knowing.  He must not have realized that one day in the future someone would invent a box to keep ice and meat in because if He did realize it then He surely He would have said "when the ice box in developed you may eat of these unclean animals".  \n\nThe problem here is translation the words "tahor" and "tamei" in hebrew do not translate well in to english so they chose the words "clean" and "unclean".  It is a spiritual teaching using physical things like a pig for instance.  But like any other commandment, if you strip the physical part of actually doing the commandment away, and only focus on the spiritual it will eventually loose its meaning thats why the physical is so important.  This would take me a while to explain but essentially the animals we are not to eat are scavengers, they devour other animals.  The animals that are edible chew cud.  Man was originally made to be vegetarian but when God allowed meat during the time of Noah, He chose animals that chewed cud.  If we were not going to be vegetarians then at least we would only eat animals that chewed cud so we were only one step away in the chain so to speak.  \n\nI dont want to ramble but this is a huge subject that needs to be taught.  There are so many other areas to cover like divided hooves and chewing cud being linked with rightly dividing the word and chewing on it until it becomes milk to feed "baby" believers in Yhwh.  There is really a lot there if you study it out.
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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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Described by St Paul, "cujus Deus venter est - whose God is their belly" (Phil.3,19).  It means that some people think more of earthly pleasures than spiritual ones. Thus eating and drinking too much and other pleasureable things takes precedence over the worship of God.
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I don't think it is a sin.  I love beer, and I do not feel that it is a sin to drink it -- only to abuse it.  \n\nHowever, it is not important what I think.  What do YOU think?  Why do you feel guilty?  If you feel it is a sin, then yes, for you it is a sin.  \n\nPersonally, I think you can abuse (gluttony) pretty much anything in life.  Gluttony is where the danger is.
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One religion hmmm this is intresting, i guess that i would pick commandments that focused on helping others and promoting a society that attempts to help others, Christanity has some good guidelines in that department, also eastern religions focus on an idividuals place in the world definitly useful. Just stay away from the dietary laws... i like food in general.
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First, Catholics are not allowed to eat meat products as a discipline but if you eat meat nothing bad will happen to you.  It is to prepare one for spiritual battle.  It is a stripping down as a wrestler would do.  We also give alms to further help us to do battle and pray constantly to prepare as a warrior would for battle.  If you do it, you are better off, if you don't do it you just give up the benefits. Consider it a normative suggestion, but not a rule (just to clarify). The practice arose because people were fasting anyway and it is destructive for some. Therefore the bishops chose to regulate it, there are people who are not to fast. When God entered into the covenant with Noah, he gave mankind permission to eat animal products. Since that means in Paradise we were vegetarians, ancient Christians saw this as a preparation for the Resurrection and the restoration of Paradise. Because of poor nutrition in the West, the western bishops reduced the fast requirements and permitted fish on Friday in the western countries.  Eastern Christians still maintain the stricter fast.\n\nCatholics do not fast on celebratory days, such as the day Patrick returned home to the Father, or on the celebration of the Annunciation.\n\nThere are extensive passages on fasting and almsgiving in the old and new testament.  Jesus certainly fasted and Catholics are called to imitate Jesus to prepare ourselves for the evil which is still loose in the world.\n\nIt is a threefold responsibility fast, give alms and pray.  It is dangerous not to do all three.  And, since you are saving money on food, you have extra to give.
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They believe that blood transfusions are a sin, WRONG, blood trans. have saved so many lifes they are amiracle of God. That belief is taken out of context.  They would wring there hands if they saw you take a little wine, Jesus preformed the miracle of turning water into wine at a wedding reception, they don,t believe in wedding receptions. We are actually told that a little wine is good for the tummy, but DO NOT drink so much as to become drunk  so that you act like a moron, I could go on & on but I wont, I have some sweet JW neighbors.  However, if you don,t believe in the miracles of Jesus, what is your religion really about?\n\nBlubla
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My religion tells me to eat only the clean and healthy things in this world.\n\nMy religion tells me that we eat to live, and that we don't live to eat. It tells me that if I had chicken then I should cook it and make a lot of soup so that I would be able to give some of it to those who need it.\n\nMy religion tells me to eat only when I'm hungry, and that I am better off sleeping with an empty stomach then to sleep bloated with food I didn't need to eat in the first place.\n\nMy religion tells me to eat only what is 'halal', and pure, and to thank God for the grace that He has shed upon me. \n\nThat's what my religion tells me about food. and that is why I am so found of it.
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praying is always encouraged.  distracting things are not encouraged while you are praying.  that is the reason you usually pray before you eat not while you are eating.  that would be weird.  but, one could argue at least you are praying.  i would say pray to stop smoking! HAHA
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Nope, becoming drunk is the sin. Catholics often use real wine for communion. I have the occasional drink. I work at a 5 star restaurant, and we go to wine tastings. My Jehovah's Witness co worker tastes the wine with the rest of us.
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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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1 Cor 10:25 - 1 Cor 10:27 (NIV) 25Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, 26for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.” 27If some unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat whatever is put before you without raising questions of conscience. \n\nRom 14:20 - Rom 14:21 (NIV) 20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. 21It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother to fall.\n\nCol 2:16 - Col 2:17 (NIV) 16Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. 17These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.\n\nThere's another one in Acts I can't recall. In any event, when Christianity was new, it was having major problems finding new adherents, so circumcision, kosher laws and other distinctly Jewish traditions had to go in order to win over the hearts and minds of the pagan near east. The rest is history.\n\nKashrus, or kosher laws only apply to Jews, they have never applied to anyone else and Jews do not contend anyone elkse need live by them. There is nothing inherently wrong with pork, it's the world most consumed meat. The laws specifically state they are spiritual, not health related. Leviticus 20:25.