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Holy Cow! Does God Care about What We Eat?

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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!

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!

Like the author, I loved ribs too. The thought of giving up pork, shellfish, and other unclean animals seemed extreme. After all, God declared them okay in the New Testament, right? Well, Hope explains those passages and others in a way that made me realize that God does care about what we eat. What really got me was when Hope pointed out Genesis 7:2. God tells Noah to take SEVEN pairs of the clean animals and TWO pairs of the unclean animals. Since God told this to Noah BEFORE the Law, then Noah must have known which animals were clean and unclean. I believe that God loves us completely, and cares about every aspect of our lives, including what we eat. He has created a huge array of wonderful life-giving and sustaining foods that will allow us to live healthy lives.

I have shared this book with several friends and now need to buy more. If God is challenging you about your food choices, and you want to fulfill God's mission on this earth, I highly recommend you read Hope's book with an open mind and a soft heart. God bless!

As both a believer in the Messiah, and an Assemblies of God minister I have to highly recommend this book. This book isn't about eating a certain way solely because of the health benefits. It is so much deeper than that. This book gets to the core of what Jesus really had to say concerning the misinterpreted "freedom" we have concerning the eating of unclean animals.

I highly recommend Holy Cow! to any believer interested in actually being set apart... or at least to any believer that wants to start doing it according to the instructions ADONAI gave us.

Holy Cow! will help you go deeper in the Scriptures and show you that being a believer is more than making long and beautiful prayers over food (or so-called food). This is a dynamic book to read!

By the way, Holy Cow! contains a very reasonable explanation for the famous rabbinical interpretation of "...and you shall not boil the kid in its mother's milk" (this is possible because this book does not have the popular anti-rabbinic bias).

I would like to say to Hope Egan and Daniel Thomas Lancaster: Yasher koah! (Well done!)

Was struggling with eating pork when I read in the Bible we where not suppose to...Ordered this book and it made it very clear...I do not eat pork any more....Author is a very nice lady also....Would recommend it to any one searching for answers

Hope Egan's book is an easy read that offers some hefty food for thought. Insightful, witty and full of grace. You will feel challenged by this book, regardless of your ultimate conclusions. I recommend this book for all Christians and anyone who wants to explore God's design for healthy eating.

I loved this book. It is not just about food. I thought it was presented well and a lot of fun to read.

This is by far THE best book on the topic of God's dietary guidelines. I highly recommend this to anyone who really wants to know the heart of God when it comes to food. The book clearly separates what God actually said about clean and unclean foods in His Torah from what the religious leaders added as they built "fences" of protection. I believe all those who desire to pattern their lives after the Master could easily live within the dietary guidelines of the Torah without going nuts or becoming fanatic about it as did the "religious" of Yeshua's day. God's law was meant to be a blessing not a burden. This book has also been a blessing .... Thank you Hope!

YES HE DOES! A great book revealing the perfect FREEDOM Adonai has for us. He wants to bless us with health, strength and vitality! This is the 'one new man', jew and gentile together describing the facts about food and Adonai's abundantly loving heart over his creation. Every believer needs to read this book and be set free!