ARE THERE UNCLEAN FOODS? One author asked and he answered it with:
source of excerpt: http://www.rationalchristianity.net/kosher.html
source of excerpt: http://www.rationalchristianity.net/kosher.html
Romans 14:14 (also 1 Tim 4:1-4)
As one who is in the Lord Jesus, I am fully convinced that no food is unclean in itself.
Deuteronomy 14:3, 7-8, 10 (Dt 14:3-21; also Lev 11)
Do not eat any detestable thing…you may not eat the camel, the rabbit or the coney. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a split hoof; they are ceremonially unclean for you. The pig is also unclean…Anything that does not have fins and scales you may not eat; for you it is unclean.
As Paul states in Romans 14:14, foods are not unclean in and of themselves. While God has given rules concerning food in the past, they were laws intended to serve a particular purpose at a particular time, not moral absolutes. The laws given to the Israelites concerning food were in force during the time of the Old Covenant, not before and not after.
People often view Paul’s teaching on foods as contradictory to Jesus’ teaching, particularly Jesus’ statement that he was not coming to abolish the law (see Jesus did/did not abolish the law). Yet Jesus himself pointed out that the ceremonial aspects of the law were only ceremonial in Matthew 15:10-20:
People often view Paul’s teaching on foods as contradictory to Jesus’ teaching, particularly Jesus’ statement that he was not coming to abolish the law (see Jesus did/did not abolish the law). Yet Jesus himself pointed out that the ceremonial aspects of the law were only ceremonial in Matthew 15:10-20:
Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand. What goes into a man’s mouth does not make him ‘unclean,’ but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him ‘unclean.’”
————————————————————————————-So the questions is: are there unclean foods? Is the Article written above right? Can we eat anything that moves?
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. Genesis 9:3
THERE ARE UNCLEAN FOODS GOD SAYS SO…Would you eat eat insects? No? Why because 99% of insects are unclean Leviticus 11 tells us so:
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. Genesis 9:3
THERE ARE UNCLEAN FOODS GOD SAYS SO…Would you eat eat insects? No? Why because 99% of insects are unclean Leviticus 11 tells us so:
Deuteronomy 14:19 All flying insects that swarm are unclean to you …
they shall not be eaten…
they shall not be eaten…
And the author I cited in the first post I made twisted the words of
Romans 14:14 As one who is in the Lord Jesus, I am fully convinced that no food is unclean in itself.
Which in the NKJV is: I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
We can twist the Word written by Paul towards our on destruction or even other scriptures. So we should be careful in our interpretation of God’s Important Words!
