- Paperback: 161 pages
- Publisher: First Fruits of Zion, Incorporated (May 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 189212419X
- ISBN-13: 978-1892124197
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 318 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #723,911 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In the churches I have attended, "fellowship" is often synonymous with "eating," but I have rarely heard the topic of food addressed from the pulpit. Read the first page
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Holy Cow, God DOES care., Mar 13 2007
By Bonnie Sims - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Holy Cow!: Does God Care about What We Eat? (Paperback)
This book was informative and gives the reader a chance to decide for themselves what is approved food. I believe if more people knew what God's instructions regarding "approved" food for his "chosen" people, there would be much less sickness and disease in America today.I don't know why as a Christian I was brought up thinking ham was a perfectly acceptable Easter dinner. The scientific reasons that pork and shellfish should not be consumed should be reason enough to make it a forbidden food for Jews and Christians alike. I gave up Biblicly unclean foods about a year and a half ago and feel 20 years younger!
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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A Fantastic Treatment of a Deserving Topic, Jan 4 2007
By C. Dowdy - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Holy Cow!: Does God Care about What We Eat? (Paperback)
Traditional Christian doctrine tells us that God gave dietary laws to Israel, but then abolished those laws when our Messiah came. There are quite a few New Testament scriptures to back up this view, to be sure -- I used to rely on them heavily myself to defend my non-kosher diet! I became suspicious that something was amiss when I came across Isaiah 65:4, where God expresses his disgust with the practice of eating the flesh of pigs and other unclean meat, in the same chapter as giving prophecies that have yet to be fulfilled about the new heavens and new earth. It doesn't make much sense to tie these two things together if the dietary laws have been abolished in the past. After a lot of reading, thinking, and praying, I came to the conclusion that my traditional viewpoint was wrong.I probably could have saved myself the trouble of further research if I had read this book first. Hope Egan combines discussions of food-related scriptures with some basic scientific principles to show why we were simply designed to eat certain types of animals, but not others. She makes it clear that this is not a salvation issue, but a way to be obedient to God in one more area of our lives. I was impressed by her common-sense approach to this topic, and the fact that she is forthright without being pushy. She touches on the history of both Israel and the Church to show the proper context for New Testament scriptures, and how these scriptures came to be misinterpreted as the increasingly Gentile church lost touch with its Judaic roots. At the end of the book, there is a sizeable appendix with excerpts from Thomas Lancaster's writing, where he discusses several specific New Testament scriptures that are often used against the dietary laws. There are also helpful and specific lists of clean and unclean animals. The book focuses on the dietary laws, but in a more general sense, the authors also defend Torah observance as a whole.
If you are curious about the dietary laws, this book is an ideal source of food for thought. If you read this, I hope you do so with an open mind and a soft heart. I give it 5 stars for the excellent writing and the unique (but applicable) subject matter. Shalom!
19 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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This book changed the way I eat, Jan 30 2006
By R. Bermel - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Holy Cow!: Does God Care about What We Eat? (Paperback)
Like the author, I loved ribs too. The thought of giving up pork, shellfish, and other unclean animals seemed extreme. After all, God declared them okay in the New Testament, right? Well, Hope explains those passages and others in a way that made me realize that God does care about what we eat. What really got me was when Hope pointed out Genesis 7:2. God tells Noah to take SEVEN pairs of the clean animals and TWO pairs of the unclean animals. Since God told this to Noah BEFORE the Law, then Noah must have known which animals were clean and unclean. I believe that God loves us completely, and cares about every aspect of our lives, including what we eat. He has created a huge array of wonderful life-giving and sustaining foods that will allow us to live healthy lives.I have shared this book with several friends and now need to buy more. If God is challenging you about your food choices, and you want to fulfill God's mission on this earth, I highly recommend you read Hope's book with an open mind and a soft heart. God bless!
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