My old friend, Abdullah, who was born and raised in the Jewish faith, said, “Not only was I raised in the most orthodox environment in Judaism, but for forty years I was a strict vegetarian. I had never tasted pork in my life, no part of the animal. The voice said to me, ‘If you will not eat what they give you, how do you expect them to take what you give them? So you are feasting them and you expect them to accept what you teach and yet you will not eat what they offer you.’” And he said, “I broke my fast after the vision, and what do you think was served me, and it had never happened before? I was the guest of honor and I went to this lovely party, and they brought in a little roasted pig. The whole animal, right at the top of the table, and I am the guest of honor. I broke not only my fast from not having had meat in forty years, but never in my life had I ever had a piece of pork…and here I am breaking my fast on pork.” So, you won’t take what I’m offering, well, have I taken what you offered? So, all things are clean if you see them clean. As we are told, “Food will not commend you to God; you’re no worse off if you do not eat it and no better if you do,” as told us in Paul’s letters, no worse off if you don’t, no better if you do.1144 ¶37