Wouldn’t blessing the food in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ at mealtime, as many families do, cancel out the halal stuff, or am I bonkers?
PING!
Neither. You are in need of reading Acts 15 carefully.
no, the point of nor eating it, is to convince the others around you that the idol is NOT to be worshipped
“Wouldn’t blessing the food in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ at mealtime, as many families do, cancel out the halal stuff, or am I bonkers?”
Of course the halal business is just hokum — it has no effect on the meat at all.
The issue is obdience to the Word. After due consideration, the Apostles said “don’t eat it.”
Well, sometimes, as a parent, I say “because I said so,” and that has to be good enough because there are some things I cannot understand.
If looking at the reasoning behind the Word, I would opine (and it is an opinion) that we are to avoid such things to avoid giving them economic value (money) and because we should shun and refuse to be a part of anything that is false as that gives Islam credibility.
Muslims, in particular, use halal to force sharia onto Christians. We should fight this, even if the fight starts with our Thanksgiving turkeys.