The Dietary Laws of God (original) (raw)

Diet is a subject of taboo in many religions, and both Judaism and Islam have strict laws about lawful and prohibited foods. In Judaism, what food is lawful, and what food can be eaten with what, and how food is prepared all come under the label of Kosher cuisine, whilst Islamic rules of diet are known as halal cuisine. Christianity, however, has largely dispensed with any limitations on what can be eaten, and how it is cooked, largely because the churches teach that the law of Jesus is through the heart and spirit; the intention rather than following rote legal niceties. This book critically examines the Christian reasons for abandoning God's dietary Law, and calls the God fearing back to not only observing it, but embracing the true religion that God has sent to man down the ages of mankind. The defence that Christians often erect in order to justify their non-observance of the Torah Laws, especially concerning what they eat, is three pronged, centring around, in the Gospels, Matthew Chapter 15 and Mark Chapter 7. They also cite Acts 10 from Luke's scripture, and various passages from Galatians and Romans in which Paul argues the abrogation of Mosaic Law. These evidences I will, God willing, present and examine first. I will then discuss dietary law using Islamic proofs. Finally, I will present evidence that Jesus (Peace be upon him) came not to abrogate, but confirm, the Mosaic Law to the Jews, and examine the claim that Jesus (Peace be upon him) was to allow the people to distance themselves from that which had been added to it by the priesthood, and his mission was, as is written in the Quran: “to attest the Law which was before me, and to make lawful to you part of what was (before) forbidden to you...” [Quran, 6:50] and thus that Christians are obliged, according to their scriptures, and now according to ours, to follow the Monotheistic Laws of God that are enshrined in the Quran, which confirms what is in the Gospel and Torah.