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Does eating meat contribute to spiritual growth? Please indicate the scriptures in the Bible where God blesses everything for food and where Christ Himself ate meat.

The question is too broad to be given a definitive answer. For each person in specific circumstances, such a question may be answered differently. As far as we can understand the Apostle Paul in Rom 14:1-26, the eating or abstaining from meat is not directly related to one's spiritual life, for "the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit" (Rom 14:17). Furthermore, as an example, one may cite the well-known vision of the Apostle Peter, Act 10:9-20, when God blesses foods to be eaten (including meat) which Peter, as a Jew, considered forbidden. The Gospels do not record that Christ ate meat; however, they omit many other details. In truth, the Gospels do not set out to record such particulars. Nevertheless, since partaking of the Passover lamb, for example, was an integral part of the Jewish observance of Passover, it is reasonable to assume that Christ did so.

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