Holy Cow!: Does God Care About What We Eat?

by Hope Egan

Overview

Join 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781951833138
Publisher:	Messianic Jewish Publishers
Publication date:	10/01/2020
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.46(d)

About the Author

Best-selling author Hope Egan is the founder of BiblicalEating.net, the Internet's best source for biblical eating information and resources. She has also written a variety of books, including Holy Cow! Does God Care about What We Eat? and the What the Bible Says about Healthy Living Cookbook: Simple and Tasty Recipes Featuring God's Ingredients. She has also written for numerous magazines and websites, including Faith and Fitness Magazine and NaturalNews.com.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Third Edition Rabbi Barry Rubin xiii

Foreword to the Second Edition Jordan S. Rubin, Co-Founder and CEO of Ancient Nutrition xv

Foreword to the First Edition Dr. Rex Russell, Author of What the Bible Says about Healthy Living. xvii

Preface xix

Part I Hope's Perspective Prologue

Lunch with a Nice Jewish Girl 3

1 In the Beginning

Food and the Hebrew Scriptures 13

2 Did God Flip a Coin?

Scientific Support for the Biblical Food Laws 31

3 What Would Jesus Eat?

First-Century Judaism's Historical Background 41

4 The New Testament View

Reconciling Apparent Contradictions with the Hebrew Scriptures 49

5 Avoiding Blood, Fat and Things Strangled

Is Kosher Meat the Answer? 61

6 Meat and Milk

Did My Ancestors Take it Too Far? 75

7 Conclusion

God's Word Does Not Change-and Neither Does the Physiology of Pork or Shellfish 81

Holy Cow! Does God Really Care About What We Eat?

8 Beyond Meat Laws

Other Bible Passages that Lead to Good Health 87

Part II Man Alive! There's More!

By D. Thomas Lancaster 95

Man Alive! Clean and Unclean

There's More on Leviticus 11^* 99

Man Alive! Jesus Declared All Foods Clean

There's More on Mark 7:1-23 105

Man Alive! Peter's Vision of the Sheet

There's More on Acts 10 111

Man Alive! Nothing is Unclean in Itself

There's More on Galatians 2:10-15; 1 Corinthians 8-10 and Romans 14 117

Man Alive! Doctrine of Demons

There's More on 1 Timothy 4:1-5 and Colossians 2:18-23 125

Man Alive!

A Look Back at Church History 135

Appendices

Bible and Apocrypha Passages 135

List of Clean and Unclean Animals 141

Bibliography 145

Scripture Reference Index 147

Subject Index 151