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ASIN: 189212419X
Manufacturer: First Fruits of Zion
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Editorial Reviews
Book Description:
Join Messiah Magazine editor and best-selling author Hope Egan on her personal journey through what the Bible says about eating meat. With the help of author and Bible teacher D. Thomas Lancaster, Hope helps you see how science and Scripture brilliantly intertwine. Promoting neither legalism nor vegetarianism, Holy Cow! gently challenges followers of Jesus to take a fresh look at how they live out their faith and what Christian obedience looks like.
Customer Reviews
One great book. by Jim Olson
I loved this book. It is not just about food. I thought it was presented well and a lot of fun to read.
Clean or Unclean? by Bethany McGill
After years of hearing that Christians are under the “New Covenant” and that “Old Testament stuff does not apply” to us, I was stunned to realize that it may apply more than we think. Just the fact that scientifically it can be shown that the unclean meat really is not good for us and the Torah gave this information 1000’s of years ago caused me to really question what I had been taught. Gee…maybe God really does know what is best for us 
The irony that the church, as a whole, is griping at people for having an occasional glass of wine, but tells them to eat that ham for Easter is classic. It is very eye opening to research and see WHY ham is eaten for Easter
I appreciated that this book was not overly graphic about the unclean meats. I have seen some that made me ill with the graphic detail about the unclean meats.
The author does a great job of showing her point, but allowing the Holy Spirit to convict. She guides without condemning. She uses sound hermeneutics to show Scripturally why this is valid.
As for me, after my research, I no longer eat the unclean meat. I am also looking at what else the Torah says that the church has told us to ignore because it is supposedly no longer valid.
Just call me the semi-kosher pro-Torah gal =)
Holy Cow, God DOES care. by Bonnie Sims
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!
A Fantastic Treatment of a Deserving Topic by C. Dowdy
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!
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