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But I could never eat just one!!!
BFA
P.S. It's good to "see" you again, Moriah!
As far as the main topic goes? Honoring hospitality takes precedence over dietary rules, no contest. Another sentient creature's feelings and our potential social relation bes far more important than whether it "follows the rules" or not.probably...... my answer would be the same if it were chicken, lamb, beef, lobster, alligator, etc... yeah I would taste it, and if it were good I would eat it all and ask for more.... but, that's just me...
Yeah, but sometimes things come up.
And there is a difference between dietary rules that you follow because you feel that they are a good idea. And a diet that you follow because to do otherwise disgusts you or would make you sick.
I don't normally eat mac&cheese. This is a diet rule, it is because it isn't healthy. I don't order it/etc. However, when I go to someone's house, and they have some, I get some. It doesn't really harm me any.
However, the times that I have had meat it has made me sick. And so while I would eat mac&cheese, I wouldn't eat meat just to make the host feel better or something.
Another example, I have known people (been freinds with) who want their guests to share in their drug use. I also declined that. That is becuase I felt it wasn't worth it (due to legal issues mostly).
Now, if I could stomach meat, I don't see anything wrong with eating it. And so like the Mac&Cheese I would have some if offered even though I don't normally eat it. And a number of my vegeterrian freinds who weren't always vegeterrian are similar.
However, it is different for me. Make someone feel a little better isn't worth me being sick. And honestly, most any host in america wouldn't want me to eat meat knowing that. Most hosts don't want to cause their guests discomfort or suffering or pain.
Maybe the best example would be the lactose intollerant. Some decide that they will eat some milk cause it is offered and be in pain later. But many, especially those younger than 30, will just say 'no thanks' and skip the pain.
JM
This is a silly little side topic, but perhaps you might humor me?
Let's imagine for a moment that you are a Christian musician and you have travelled to another town to provide music for a worship service in a non-SDA church. A member of that church offered to have you stay with him overnight. Although that member knows you are a Seventh-day Adventist, he does not really understand what SDAs believe. He wakes early in the morning and prepares only one breakfast item--a breakfast burrito that contains sausage. As you arrive at the breakfast table, you note your host's enthusiasm about the breakfast and his interest in hearing your opinion of his culinary creation.
If you were faced with such a situation, would you:(1) Politely decline the breakfast and explain the reasons why you choose not to eat sausage;Thanks for humoring me.
(2) Politely decline the breakfast and suggest that you aren't hungry;
(3) Try to pick the sausage out of the burrito and then eat it;
(3) Decide to eat the burrito because you believe it is more important to show love than it is to honor dietary laws;
(4) Eat the burrito in the same way you would any other day because you have no conviction one way or the other regarding the consumption of pork products; -OR-
(5) Some other option I haven't thought of (please specify).
BFA
I actually faced this exact scenario when I was in my early 20s and still an SDA. That's why I raised the question; I was enterested to see how others would have handled the situation. When I was faced with this situation, I apologized to the host, claimed that I wasn't hungry and didn't like to eat before singing. I was pretty hungry when we finally got to eat lunch.
In my early 30s, when my approach to SDAism had become more progressive, I probably would have simply eaten the burrito and then would have later felt guilty about it.
Today, I would eat it, enjoy it and feel no guilt about it.
BFA
Guilt is a thing of the conscience.
With that said, Gods health laws were given for our own benefit,
but it is not necessary for our salvation.
To me, I made a personal promise, and have not ate pork since.
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