For starters, the Bible does not prohibit eating meat. In the Bible, the eating of meat is sometimes prescribed and the New Testament even records Jesus eating both fish and lamb.
Yes, the Bible teaches there are meats that are designated as “unclean” (or unfit) for human consumption. These meats include pork, shellfish and the meat of other specific animals, sea creatures and birds. These laws are not ceremonial, but rather, they reveal God's design of the animals and our digestive system.
Christian dietary laws vary between denominations. The general dietary restrictions specified for Christians in the New Testament are to "abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from meat of strangled animals".
Based on nutritional anthropology from the time, Jesus likely had a diet similar to the Mediterranean Diet today. Heavy in fruits and vegetables, lots of fish, likely poultry, and red meat in the form of lamb, which was likely most reserved for feasts like passover.
Oriental Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic monastics abstain from meat year-round, and many abstain from dairy and seafood as well.
In the Torah, pigs are listed among several animals that God forbids for human consumption because they are considered to be ritually unclean.
What Does The New Testament Say About Eating Unclean Animals? In the New Testament, Jesus swept away these rules when He “declared all foods clean” (Mark 7:18-19): “There is nothing outside the man which can defile him if it goes into him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man.”
No, neither the Church nor the Bible says that eating meat is a sin. In the book of Acts, St. Peter is instructed by God to slaughter and eat any animal (10:9-16). The Church asks us to abstain from eating meat on the Fridays of Lent as a penance, but that is not because eating meat is inherently sinful.
God states that cud-chewing animals with split hooves can be eaten (Leviticus 11:3; Deuteronomy 14:6). These specifically include the cattle, sheep, goat, deer and gazelle families (Deuteronomy 14:4-5). He also lists such animals as camels, rabbits and pigs as being unclean, or unfit to eat (Leviticus 11:4-8).
God did not originally create animals to be eaten. In Genesis 1:29, God told man to only eat plants. That verse says, “I give you every seed-bearing PLANT on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for FOOD.” Abel kept animals for SACRIFICE not for eating.
In short, no, The Bible does not say it is a sin to eat meat on Friday during Lent, nor does it imply this concept or even hint at it.
Eastern religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, generally agree in their support of non-violence and a meatless lifestyle, i.e. vegetarianism (11).
Bread - often (though not exclusively) unleavened bread; one of the two elements (with wine) of the Christian eucharist, the bread represents Christ's body.
The main reason God categorized certain animals as “unclean” was to highlight the difference between holiness and sin. Dietary laws controlled what individuals put into their bodies.
Since Jesus sacrificed his flesh for us on Good Friday, we refrain from eating flesh meat in his honor on Fridays. Flesh meat includes the meat of mammals and poultry, and the main foods that come under this heading are beef, pork, chicken, and turkey.
1 Timothy 4:3-5 American Standard Version (ASV)
forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth.
Look again at our text, Mark 7:18- 19, “Nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him unclean, for it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach and then out of his body. And saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.” Paul said the same thing about food.
So if you eat the animals which have been created to be eaten, you're not doing a sin. Similarly, Quran also says certain animals have been created to be eaten, but if you eat the other animals which have not been created for eating, minutes of sin.
The norms concerning abstinence from meat are binding upon members of the Latin Catholic Church from age 14 onwards. A summary of current practice: On Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and all Fridays of Lent: Everyone of age 14 and up must abstain from consuming meat.
God qualifies the permission to slaughter animals for food with a stern caution: “For your own lifeblood, I will surely require a reckoning: from every animal I will require it and from human beings, each one for the blood of another” (Gen 9:5).
In Heaven Randy writes that it appears that neither animals nor people ate meat until after the flood. But Genesis 4 says Abel kept flocks and gave fat offerings, which suggests he ate meat.
God states that cud-chewing animals with split hooves can be eaten (Leviticus 11:3; Deuteronomy 14:6). These specifically include the cattle, sheep, goat, deer and gazelle families (Deuteronomy 14:4-5). He also lists such animals as camels, rabbits and pigs as being unclean, or unfit to eat (Leviticus 11:4-8).