http://www.answerbag.com/profile/303347 New Answerbag answers from Researcher Tue, 29 May 2012 18:30:40 -0700 Tue, 29 May 2012 18:30:40 -0700 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/2383715 Why can't you eat meat on Fridays during Lent?<br /><br />The practice of abstinence (doing without certain things) goes back to the Old Testament and the Jewish dietary laws which were carried over into parts of the early Christian church until the Council of Jerusalem (Acts 15). The theological reasoning is that it is a method of atoning for sin since... Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:04:41 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/2383715