Two weeks ago I would have said 'drinking's fine, Jesus turned water to wine', but after reading some materials, I'm not so sure about alcohol or meat being respectable consumptions.
Eusebius, one of the transcribers of the Biblican Canon, wrote in his 'Demonstratio Evangelica', that 'the apostles lived with fasting and abstinence from wine and from meat'. St Clement wrote that Matthew only ate seeds, nuts and vegetables, 'without the flesh', and there's also strong evidence the first christians were vegetarian; the Essenes, the Nazarenes and the Ebionites.
Jesus said he came to do away with, among other things, sacrificing, and the first instances of meat eating were to do with sacrificial animals, a punishment in and of itself for Adam and Eve, having to kill another living thing just to sustain themselves with life, becoming harbingers of death on all fronts. Destroying a life just to continue their own.
There are also indications that many Jews of the time ate the passover like the Qumran, without lamb, against the practices of Herod's temple.
The Old Syriac gospels show Jesus explicitly going against meat, and the Gospel of the Holy Twelve has a story about Jesus coming across a man flogging a donkey and stopping that man from his cruelty, and in the Hebrew Bible, there is a verse about killing animals that says 'whoever slaughters an oxen is like one who kills a human; whoever sacrifices a lamb, does like breaking a dog's neck'.
'Be thou not among flesh eaters and wine drinkers'.
There are also several accounts of Jesus 'fish and bread' story that say the food was actually 'grapes and bread', or 'olives and bread'.
The more I look, the more evidence I find of this.
Eusebius, one of the transcribers of the Biblican Canon, wrote in his 'Demonstratio Evangelica', that 'the apostles lived with fasting and abstinence from wine and from meat'. St Clement wrote that Matthew only ate seeds, nuts and vegetables, 'without the flesh', and there's also strong evidence the first christians were vegetarian; the Essenes, the Nazarenes and the Ebionites.
Jesus said he came to do away with, among other things, sacrificing, and the first instances of meat eating were to do with sacrificial animals, a punishment in and of itself for Adam and Eve, having to kill another living thing just to sustain themselves with life, becoming harbingers of death on all fronts. Destroying a life just to continue their own.
There are also indications that many Jews of the time ate the passover like the Qumran, without lamb, against the practices of Herod's temple.
The Old Syriac gospels show Jesus explicitly going against meat, and the Gospel of the Holy Twelve has a story about Jesus coming across a man flogging a donkey and stopping that man from his cruelty, and in the Hebrew Bible, there is a verse about killing animals that says 'whoever slaughters an oxen is like one who kills a human; whoever sacrifices a lamb, does like breaking a dog's neck'.
'Be thou not among flesh eaters and wine drinkers'.
There are also several accounts of Jesus 'fish and bread' story that say the food was actually 'grapes and bread', or 'olives and bread'.
The more I look, the more evidence I find of this.