Halaal Foods OK! Yes/No

[Ed the Ned]

If we as Christians eat food that is Halaal, are we not eating food that has been offered to Allah in its preperation? If so is not a sin to eat it? This is something that has always concerned me as nearly everything in the supermarket nowdays has the Halaal stamp on it. I've tried to get more info, maybe someone can help. (Please I am not trying to stop people eating Halaal food. just trying to understand if Halaal food is offered to Allah during its preperation)

 

[follower of Christ]

Paul says that we arent to eat foods offered to idols.
Not for OUR benefit, but for those offering the foods. We dont want to give them the wrong impression.
The food in and of itself is fine. And we know that idols are nothing, but we dont want to cause someone else to believe that we are partaking of idolatry, and so we abstain for that reason.
If those around us arent weak in the matter, then I dont think there is a problem with simply eating.

Now concerning the things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he has come to know nothing yet as he ought to know. But if anyone loves God, this one has been known by Him.

Therefore concerning the eating of the things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
For even if they are being called "gods" whether in heaven or on earth (just as there are many gods and many lords), yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.

However, this knowledge is not in all people; rather some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as something offered to idols; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat do we have more, nor if we do not eat do we lack.

But beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to those who are weak. For if anyone should see you who has knowledge dining in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, being weak, be strengthened so that they eat foods offered to idols? And because of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for the sake of whom Christ died?
But when you thus sin against the brothers, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. Wherefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will by no means eat meat, lest I cause my brother to stumble.
(1 Corinthians 8:1-13 EMTV)

 

[Tina]

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If we as Christians eat food that is Halaal, are we not eating food that has been offered to Allah in its preperation? If so is not a sin to eat it?

Paul says that we arent to eat foods offered to idols.

Both of you have got your concept of "halal" wrong. Halal certainly does not mean that the food is offered to Allah, but simply that the animal is slaughtered in the name of Allah, ie. the name of Allah is invoked before the slaughter. Allah is not an "idol" that the food can be offered to, it is an invisible being, a moon god or something.

The Bible says that Jesus Christ has made all food clean.

Acts 10:9-15
About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles of the earth and birds of the air. Then a voice told him, "Get up, Peter. Kill and eat." "Surely not, Lord!" Peter replied. "I have never eaten anything impure or unclean." The voice spoke to him a second time, "Do not call anything impure that God has made clean."

:amen

 

[ChevyRodeo]

if you ask me, eating food for allah is a slap in the face of Islam when you are a christan, and may be taken as a way for you to say you dont acknowledge 'him'.


but also dont Muslims think they are praying to the god of Abraham? The do follow the OT right? islam is very close to being Jewish, its the NT we disagree on.