Is your diet choice done for biblical reasons?
Are you a vegan on Biblical principles? Yes or No? No one can make a legitimate biblical case for eating a plant-based diet. The Mosaic Law outlawed shellfish and meat from unclean animals. But under the New Covenant God’s people are free to eat or drink anything God created, or food scientists concocted. Jesus made this clear, and Mark added an explanatory note that expels any doubt of interpretation: Mark 7:15-19 There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him. … Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.) This lesson was reiterated in a vision God gave Peter in which Peter was instructed to kill and eat unclean animals, as a sign that unclean Gentiles (and their yucky dietary habits) were now acceptable to God in Christ. Paul spells out that no one should be ju