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NASB | Acts 15:29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication; if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will do well. Farewell." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 15:29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from [consuming] blood, and from [eating the meat of] things that have been strangled, and from sexual impurity. If you keep yourselves from these things, you will do well. Farewell." |
Bible Question:
Hi all, Can we eat medium rare meat (like a steak) or not? What does the Word say and what are your thoughts? Here is an extract Do not eat or drink anything that has the blood of an animal still in it, e.g. blood pudding (1 Sam. 14:34). Do not eat rare, medium rare or medium cooked meat because the meat still contains blood. “Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it.” (Lev 19:26 NIV). The blood needs to be cooked so that no more life left in it, so rather eat well done meat. Try to eat kosher meat. “Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life; you may not eat the life with the meat… You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD” (Deut. 12:23,25). God told us directly and plainly “do not eat the blood”. Paul confirmed it in the New Testament, “Abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well.” (Acts. 15:29). So do not be deceived by your own understanding. God said, “Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good” (Is. 55:2). |
Bible Answer: Hello there, Rules on eating are mostly confined to the Old Testament. Read this. Romans 14 13 Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother's way. 14As one who is in the Lord Jesus, I am fully convinced that no food is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean. 15If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother for whom Christ died. Colossians 2 15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross. 16 Therefore 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. 17 These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ. Jesus saved you friend, not your diet. |