Klopotenko dismissed the criticism, saying the show was filmed in accordance with church etiquette and after consultation with the clergy, and that they used the refectory only to show the food, not to cook it. ”I’m sorry that some people had negative feelings about it. My goal was not...
They also point to those verses in Deuteronomy to show that they are to feast and rejoice during this time, which they feel points to the time when Jesus will reign on the Earth for a thousand years. A time they say will be filled with great prosperity--a glimpse of which they get wh...
Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat sacrificial food they think of it as having been sacrificed to a god, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled. 8 But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if...
Here is the reason of why I believe their food was made lawful for the Muslims:"'This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.' (From the NIV Bible, Leviticus 3:17)"...
“Except a man eat my flesh, and drink my blood, he is not worthy of me.” But the one being induced to return to the Lord by Peter’s instrumentality, and the other by Paul’s, they were honored to preach that Gospel on account of which they also suffered martyrdom, the one ...
They say they have had to cut food aid to hundreds of thousands of people. Most are in West Africa and the Great Lakes area. The two agencies say the cuts have created (38)___among those (39) ___. Special feeding programs for young children, (40)___women and new mothers have als...
Joseph could have chosen to go along with Potiphar’s wife…Daniel could have chosen to eat the king’s food and assimilate into the Babylon culture. But both chose to be honorable and to bloom where they were planted. I write Christian fiction to show characters who have flaws and who do...
seem to be contextually sensitive and designed for these specific circumstances: abstention from food offered toidols, fromblood(meat with the blood in it), and fromstrangledmeat (which would also have blood in it). (But Paul in other circumstances permitted believers to eat food offered to ido...
the approach of the winter season. It was also a festival for honoring the spirits they believed still walked the Earth by leaving treats on their doorsteps. After Catholics invaded Ireland in the 3st century, the food of choice for Christians became "soul cakes," a kind...
Jars of food and drink were set on a table in the principal room, and the family went out with the torches to meet the ghosts and invite them to enter. Then, returning to the house they knelt around the table, and with their eyes bent on the ground, prayed the souls to accept the...