Is it okay to eat an animal that died naturally?

[tonychanyt]

Deuteronomy 14:

21a You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death.

I am not against the above but I do not follow it, Romans 14:

17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

22 The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who has no reason to pass judgment on himself for what he approves. 23 But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.

Is it okay to eat an animal that died naturally?

I think it is okay but you follow your own conscience. Just make sure you thank God before eating

 

[Fireinfolding]

Deuteronomy 14:


I am not against the above but I do not follow it, Romans 14:



Is it okay to eat an animal that died naturally?

I think it is okay but you follow your own conscience. Just make sure you thank God before eating

Where do you come up with these questions?

How would one be able to tell the difference between what died naturally and what was strangled any way?

Acts 15:20 But that we write unto them (the Gentiles), that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, G4156 and from blood.

Acts 15:26 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, G4156 and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

Acts 21:25 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, G4156 and from fornication.

Is there a difference because under the definition of strangled it also says,

1. what is strangled, i.e. an animal deprived of life without the shedding of blood

And since they had written that they abstain from blood, and from things strangled, wouldnt the two fall under the same thing there?

Maybe not, these people were barbaric

1 Sa 14:32 And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.

Who does that?

 

[Tall Timbers]

We once ate a cow that dropped dead on us. Just cut out the diseased meat and ate the rest. It's okay for me to to do.

 

[eleos1954]

Deuteronomy 14:


I am not against the above but I do not follow it, Romans 14:



Is it okay to eat an animal that died naturally?

I think it is okay but you follow your own conscience. Just make sure you thank God before eating

Depends on what one's definition of naturally is. I don't advise it.

 

[Aaron112]

I am not against the above but I do not follow it

So it is okay to you to break one law or instruction regardless of the certainty of it ?

Is that somewhat like someone with diplomatic immunity saying - I run red lights and shoot people whenever I want to because i have diplomatic immunity !?

 

[tonychanyt]

So it is okay to you to break one law or instruction regardless of the certainty of it ?

If the law applies to me, then it is wrong for me to break it.

 

[Aaron112]

If the law applies to me, then it is wrong for me to break it.

If the Creator Speaks to you, then it would be the most foolish of all to oppose Him or to disobey Him.

 

[Aaron112]

Depends on what one's definition of naturally is. I don't advise it.

Would it not be true, that it is not mine nor thine definition that matters, but
rather and totally
what the Creator Himself Says and Means ?

 

[tonychanyt]

If the Creator Speaks to you, then it would be the most foolish of all to oppose Him or to disobey Him.

Right. When was the last time the Creator spoke to you?

 

[eleos1954]

Would it not be true, that it is not mine nor thine definition that matters, but
rather and totally
what the Creator Himself Says and Means ?

If you come across a dead animal and if it is not apparent how it died, then you don't know if it was diseased or what. Is it "natural" for an animals to die of a disease?

 

[Aaron112]

If you come across a dead animal and if it is not apparent how it died, then you don't know if it was diseased or what. Is it "natural" for an animals to die of a disease?

Go back again to what the Creator Elohim Says in His Own Word.
i.e. simple and clear

 

[Aaron112]

Just cut out the diseased meat

It may well be all diseased, and even if not,
for disobeying it may bring a chastisement, penalty, judgement, or other penalty as God Says variously through His Word.

Edit: just found these references in Scripture, so it may well be fine for some !

As defined in several places, animals that were not slaughtered may not be eaten:

• Ex 22:31 - You are to be My holy people. You must not eat the meat of a mauled animal found in the field; you are to throw it to the dogs.
• Lev 17:15 - And any person, whether native or foreigner, who eats anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening; then he will be clean.
• Lev 22:8 - He must not eat anything found dead or torn by wild animals, which would make him unclean. I am the LORD.
• Deut 14:21 - You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God.