Hi all
I am little confused if Alchohol,Pork,Homosex are clearly forbiden , if YES, then why then why most of Christians did not follow their Bible , by eat pork,drink alchohol, and agree with homosexual ?
please reply with scriptures from Bible ?
Hi! One should note that the consumption of alcohol is never forbidden in the Bible, except for one who takes a nazirite vow, but even this vow is only for a limited time. There are plenty of instances in the Bible where wine is drank. In fact, Jesus's first miracle is to turn water into wine for a wedding feast. We read in the Gospel of John, chapter 2:
3 When the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” 4 [And] Jesus said to her, “Woman, how does your concern affect me? My hour has not yet come.” 5 His mother said to the servers, “Do whatever he tells you.” 6 Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washings, each holding twenty to thirty gallons. 7 Jesus told them, “Fill the jars with water.” So they filled them to the brim. 8 Then he told them, “Draw some out now and take it to the headwaiter.” So they took it. 9 And when the headwaiter tasted the water that had become wine, without knowing where it came from (although the servers who had drawn the water knew), the headwaiter called the bridegroom 10 and said to him, “Everyone serves good wine first, and then when people have drunk freely, an inferior one; but you have kept the good wine until now.” 11 Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs in Cana in Galilee and so revealed his glory, and his disciples began to believe in him.
From Psalm 104, the Psalmist praises God for creating and sustaining the earth. In one section it is written:
You make the grass grow for the cattle
and plants for people’s work
to bring forth food from the earth,
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wine to gladden their hearts,
oil to make their faces shine,
and bread to sustain the human heart.
So indeed, God Himself has given us alcohol--not to get drunk (which is forbidden in no uncertain terms throughout the Bible), but rather that we can enjoy ourselves and relax once in a while.
As for pork, when the Gospel was preached to the Gentiles, the Church, led by the disciples of Jesus, decided that eating pork was allowed for the Gentiles. The Church only decreed these four things in Acts 15:28: ‘It is the decision of the holy Spirit and of us not to place on you any burden beyond these necessities, 29 namely, to abstain from meat sacrificed to idols, from blood, from meats of strangled animals, and from unlawful marriage. If you keep free of these, you will be doing what is right. Farewell.’”
Most Christians do not agree with homosexual acts. It is against the teachings of the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches, which combined make up roughly 75% of Christians. Throw in conservative Protestants who also forbid homosexual acts, and that number probably rises to somewhere around 85-90%.
