Bible Question: If we are to present God with an undefiled body, but eat meat knowingly filled (according to researchers) with growth hormones.. are we to say that we are defiling our bodies knowingly by eating meat? |
Bible Answer: Angel72 - Are you asking about the Bible's teaching on eating meat, period; or are you extenting your question to the growth hormone controversy, or wider still, to encompass genetically engineered foods in general? If such a broad range is within the purview of your question, I'm afraid it takes us beyond the parameters of Study Bible Forum to address issues of this type on which, so far as I know, the Bible is silent. The issue becomes less a spiritual one than a nutritional or scientific one. There is a book on nutrition by a good friend of mine, Rex Russell, M.D., called "What the Bible Says About Healthy Living" that you might find to your liking. Dr. Russell is a regenerate believer in Christ and a practicing physician. ....... Since the time of the Noahic covenant (see Genesis 9:1-17), man has been free to eat animals for sustenance, although a distinction was made between clean and unclean animals even before the Flood (see Genesis 7:2, for example); and this distinction was specified in detail in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14. --Hank |