No Corn Christians?

My grand daughter has a sensitivity to corn products. The difficulty is in attempting to totally eliminate all corn products from your diet. That is very difficult. It eliminates almost all processed or pre prepared foods and limits choices tremendously.

 

Wow I actually learned something in the thread. I had no idea that corn wasn't corn. I never actually thought abut it before, but now I know.


Bill

 

I'm sure you are not alone, Bill, among speakers of American English, to have thought this. I wonder if you imagined the disciples in Luke 6.1 picking those huge yellow cobs of "corn" in the American meaning?

Lu 6:1 ¶ And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.​

That brings up the question as to whether there might be other differences between American and British English that might affect an American's understanding of a British English translation of the bible.

 

Some folks are actually allergic to corn. Maybe their family has a history of food allergies or intolerance or something.

I can't think of any other reason one would abstain from corn. Of course, in parts of this area if you say "pass the corn" some might pass a drinking glass. . .depending on whether or not if it's been turned into moonshine. Do they abstain from grapes as well?

 

A local Physician, and actually, my wife's physician, is extremely allergic to corn and has to watch not to consume any product that has corn in it. Cornstarch is one that sneaks in as does corn syrup.
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Not 'zackly sure about the "corn squeezin's", though. :laugh: :laugh:

Ed

 

Are these people also Lordship Salvation advocates - as in "no kernel Christians"?

Sorry, bad pun.

 

All right, maybe I read to much or something. But, what I really find amazing about this is that I was taught the American corn/maize was unknown until the Native American tribes taught the Pilgrims how to grow it. (a good 1500 years or so after the disciples)

So it was natural to me to presume that the Bible usage of the word corn must mean something different than what we grow.

 

I knew the fact that corn was unknown until the colonization of America, but I just never really thought about that fact when seeing the word corn in the Bible. The fact that corn was unknown in Biblical times just never connected in my brain.

Bill

 

Sorry Bill, I must apologise! I misunderstood your previous message. When you wrote, "I had no idea that corn wasn't corn," I took you to mean something like: "I had no idea that corn in the bible wasn't corn in the American sense of that word." But you clearly didn't mean that, in view of your later message. So once again, apologies.

 

No need to apologize Brother David.

I guess when I read the word corn in the Bible I never really put a specific meaning to it other than it being food. There probably was somewhat of an image of a midwest corn field in my mind. When you live in the this section of the the US you see so many cornfields you forget that it isn't the norm in other places or times.

What I did mean was that I didn't realize that the word corn was used as a generic term for grain in other parts of the world.

Bill

 

I was aware that "corn" in the bible is not maize, just like "corned beef" doesn't have corn in it. But, in the OP, I automatically assumed that corn was corn.

After some sleep, I'll share the joke with you. I had a student recently who was from Oxford. While talking, we were talking about differences between British and American, such as "jag-u-ar" and "jag-war".

Well, she related a story in which she had been in Italy for a long time, and saw an American woman trying to communicate with someone, and after some gesticulating and frustration, they were finished. So, my student walked up to her and said, "It's so good to finally find someone else who speaks English!"

The woman, without batting an eye, simply looked at here and said one word: "Squirrel."

My student came up to me at lunch last week and proudly said in a Southern accent: "I can now speak like an 'Murican: Squirrel." And she said it properly with only one syllable.

There are some things that if you were to say it to me, I would mentally say, "He's British, so he really means __________." But, in print, I make the error of automatically assuming that it's 'Murican.

 

You had to bring that one up didn't you Tiny. :applause:

 

Let's see if I can recreate the "sermon"

This is about corn..
When Corn is ready to be plucked, it is plucked and cut from the cobb...
It is then mixed in with all kinds of corn... white corn, yellow corn, sweet corn... and it has to learn to get along with others... Just like Baptists need to get along with Methodists, and Pentecostals....

The corn is mixed up... headed for it's purpose in life... That's right folks, corn just like us have a purpose in life.... (although corn has a shelf life more than 40 days!!! lol) corn's purpose in life is to sacrifice itself for the nutrition of others!!! To serve others...Can I get an amen?!

At some point, only chosen by the consumer... You see the corn has no free will... it has been predestinated to go through, what I like to call the digestive tunnel of life! ....The corn is put into the mouth of the tunnel... Now if the corn is anointed with a buttery substance it slides through the tunnel easier... Just like if a Christian is anointed with the Holy Ghost he will slide through life easier...

Anyway, the corn begins it's journey... and it's a LONGGGG and HARRRD Journey... it is troubled on every side, but not distressed, It is perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.. And through the anointing ... it makes it through...whole!


OK, OK, it was a lot better when he said it!

 

I have never heard of anybody not eating corn for religious reasons.

I can tell you that there is NO LDS ban on corn by the LDS church or any of its branch off sects. Mormons love corn (see my location, deep in mormondom). I have never heard of a LDS person not eating corn for religious reasons, maybe you are thinking of coffee.

 

It must be health reasons. There is no LDS teaching against corn.

 

I don't eat carrots:tonofbricks:

 

Corn-Pig food

Sorry, I just had to reply to this.

I knew a British family of no particular religious persuasion that absolutely would not eat corn, they deemed it as 'pig food' unfit for human consumption. Perhaps Mr. Lamb can verify if this is still the case in some areas there.

I am sure that someone along the way with a similar cultural background would have connected Lev 11 to that somehow, and came up with the idea that if a Christian is to be considered 'clean' he is not to eat foods that 'unclean' animals eat. They thus would consider corn to be unclean, and to them it would be unclean. They are free to believe that.


Rom 14:14 I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.


BGTF