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The Christian Bible has so many different interpretation I can almost certainly say "yes".
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According to Leviticus 11:10, it is an abomination to eat “all that not have fins or scales in the water.” So thats another reason I'm out of heaven :-p
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according to the bible yes.
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Have you been watching the film "for the Bible tells me so?". I just heard that exact thing in that film!
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Yes it seems so, and is a good example for people not to take the Bible so literally. http://mindprod.com/kjv/Leviticus/11.html
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In the Old Testement, at one time, shrimp was considered "unclean". Later on though, in the New Testement, God declared ALL foods good to eat. So shrimp is fine. So is all meat, which makes being vegan or vegetarian unnessesary if they base it just on religous reasons. "All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble." Romans 14:20 "Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything." Genesis 9:1-3
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yeah, but then again living your life with any shred of freedom, or fun is a abomination according to the bible.
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Is it in the Bible? Yes. So are circumcision, Levirate marriage, and the command that all debts are to be canceled every 50 years. Does the Bible tell Christians they can't eat shellfish? No. In fact, the New Testament specifically tells them they can eat shellfish and other formerly "unclean foods", and that the old kosher laws no longer apply. The reason being is that now the people of God are under the New Covenant (the new contract with God) which has new requirements; the Kosher Laws were part of the Old Covenant (the old contract with God). The New Covenant supersedes and cancels the Old Covenant. The kosher laws - as with most of the so-called "ceremonial laws" - of the Old Covenant do not apply under the New Covenant. The terms of the new contract are a lot less involved and a lot more demanding: Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who do you evil, love your neighbor as yourself, do unto others as you would have them do unto you, respect those in authority when they are acting within their authority, but do not yield to tyranny (people claiming authority they do not have); Don’t engage in any act of sexual immorality; make disciples of all men and women, of all classes, tribes, and nations, without discrimination As to what the Old Testament teaches and means by it ... The Kosher laws - as indeed all the laws of Moses - are intended to set up an enclave ("a garden" which in Hebrew means "a place protected by a wall") which harkens back to: 1) the Creation Order established by God in Eden before Adam messed it up, and 2) God's deliverance of Israel from Egypt, and as such are also bound up with symbolizing and maintaining God's unique relationship with Israel UNTIL MESSIAH COMES. "An abomination" literally means "will cause God to vomit you from His face" - a very colorful expression that means it will cause Him to exile you from His Presence, and that you won't be welcome in the Tabernacle/Temple anymore ... and if you really go too far, He'll throw you out of the Promised Land for a while, and maybe even out of Israel for eternity. But there's always a road back to fellowship with God by repentance and availing oneself of the OT penitential system: undergoing ritual purification, and offering the required sin and guilt sacrifices. The reason shellfish were not kosher is this: 1: in an age before refrigeration and rapid transport, shellfish was only eaten on the coasts -- and in the Near East, it was a food for beach-combers only: people who couldn't get their food any other way. In times of famine (crop failure), people would leave their fields and pastures and head for the shore to subsist on shellfish until the famine subsided. 2: In the Torah, God gives the people of Israel "The Promised Land" as their inheritance, and commands them not to despise their inheritance and not to leave their land. 3: God also tells Israel that the only reason they will ever suffer famine in the land is if they as a people turn their hearts away from Him and whore after other gods. If (and when) they do this, He will afflict them with famine. When they repent and return to Him, He will end the famine and bless them with more food than they know what to do with. 4: Consequently, shellfish are unclean for Israelites because they'd have to leave their land to become beachcombers to eat shellfish, and they would only do this in time of famine: but instead of vacating to the beach, they should be repenting! 5: Dogs, camels, horses, mules, donkeys, and other work animals are not kosher for a similar reason: people would only eat them in time of famine, and if Israel is suffering a famine the solution is to repent, not eat their working livestock. 6: Preditors and scavengers aren't kosher because: 1) people don't typically eat them except in times of hardship/famine, 2) God promises to keep the predatory/dangerous animals at bay EXCEPT when Israel is in sin and needs to repent - so the only reason there would be any in the area is if Israel needed to repent, and 3) predators and scavengers are "marred by the Fall"; that is, thriving on the death of others, they harken back to the curse brought upon the world by Adam's sin, and as God is establishing the Promised Land as something of an Eden Theme Park, they don't fit the idiom/atmosphere He's deliberately creating there. 7: burrowing, crawling, creeping, slithering or other-wise muck-dwelling animals aren't kosher because the Serpent (literally, "the whisperer") was cursed to eat the dust of the earth until Judgment Day, and so, like the predators and scavengers, don't belong in God's Ersatz Eden, and certainly not on their dinner tables.
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