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2. St. Paul was obviously not condemning the Church making abstinence from certain foods mandatory, because the Council of Jerusalem, of which St. Paul was a key participant in A.D. 49, did just that in declaring concerning Gentile converts:

As is too often the case, this Catholic author is full of deception...Paul DID NOT forbid the eating of certain foods...

ct 15:29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

Paul forbade the eating of all foods, which were offered as a sacrifice to idols and gods...And Paul forbade the eating of blood...That is it...To claim that Paul forbade certain foods for the Christian believer is deception...

Evidently, St. Paul was writing against what might be termed the founding fathers of the Gnostic movement that split away from the Church in the first century and would last over 1,000 years, forming many different sects and taking many different forms.

That is exactly true...But those Gnostics are still with us in the 2nd Millennium after the Crucifixion...And how do we identify those Gnostics???

Just as Paul warned; those who refuse to let their clergy get married, those who have rules against eating certain foods, and those who serve BLOOD to eat...

Can we identify that religion??? Anyone???

Catholics don't have rules against certain foods. Depending on what Catholic rite you attend, clergy may be married. Catholics consume the blood of Christ as ordered by Christ Himself.

And on the note of blood, I suppose you've never had blood pudding, blood cake, blood sausage, goose blood soup...

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