Why are they forbidden foods? Generally speaking, the Food Prohibitions of the Old Covenant show that Israel still lives in the old Adam. The « don`t taste, don`t touch » rules of the garden still apply. But the laws of impure flesh also presuppose a certain understanding of food and nourishment. Eating is not the same as refueling. Eating is an induction. To eat is to become a body with what we eat and with our table mates. What we put into our body becomes one with us. Our table attendants become members of a society. I think chicken and turkeys are unclean. They are known as « kosher for tadition » (of those enraged).
Study how it became « clean » and all the habits of these animals. Since we know that they did not exist in Israel, we must compare their habits with the pure habits mentioned in the Bible, the only ones accepted in the sacrifices (dove and dove) and with the unclean. The clean: fly and are herbivores Impure: fly or not, eat animals. In addition, chicken and turkeys have anatomy more like ostrich (do not fly, lay eggs on the ground, eat animals). Chicken and turkey eat everything, even human corpses, blood, rats, snakes, frogs and they are cannibals. If they dicovery (maybe broken) the taste of eggs, they begin to break their own eggs to eat. I can`t imagine it clean. Think about it, pls! Sorry for my English. God bless you all! The consumption of food and drink was subject to certain restrictions that became the basis of later Jewish eating habits.
These Scriptures clearly do not refer to food, but to the introduction of another nation to the observance of the laws of the Most High. Thank you very much. This helps explain the dietary laws for my son! Bless! The Armenian Apostolic Church, like other Eastern Orthodox churches, has rituals that « have obvious ties to shechita, kosher Jewish carnage. » [24] Another Eastern Orthodox Church, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, maintains the Dietary restrictions of the Old Testament. [25] Thou shalt not eat anything abominable. (4) These are the animals you will eat: beef, sheep and goat, (5) Goat and deer and deer and wild goat and pygarg and wild beef and chamois. (6) And every animal that divides the hoof and divides the crevice into two claws and chews the club under the animals, you will eat that. (7) However, they should not eat from those who chew the corner or those who share the split hoof; such as camel and rabbit and cone; for they chew the leg, but do not divide the hoof; That`s why they`re unclean for you. (8) And the pig, because he shares the hoof but does not chew the club, he is impure to you: you will not eat from their flesh and will not touch their dead carcass.
(9) They should eat everything in the waters; anything that has fins and scales should be eaten: (10) And anything that doesn`t have fins and scales that you can`t eat; it is impure to you. (11) Of all clean birds, you should eat. (12) But these are the ones you won`t eat: the eagle and the fish and the ospray, (13) And the joy and the dragon and the vulture according to its species, (14) And any crow according to its species, (15) And the owl and the nighthawk and the cuckoo and the falcon according to its species, (16) The little owl and the big owl and the swan, (17) And the pelican and the eagle and the cormorant, (18) And the stork and the heron according to their species, and the lapwing and the bat. (19) And everything that creeps in is impure to you; they will not be eaten. (20) But of all pure chickens, you can eat. (21) Thou shalt eat nothing of that which dies of itself; you will give it to the stranger who is at your doorstep so that he can eat it; or you can sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. You will not see a child in his mother`s milk. The God of the Bible, Jesus Christ, has given man a food law that must last through all generations. But so many people who call themselves Christians say that the food law has been abolished. They say that when Jesus was crucified, He ended the laws in the Old Testament.
What we are going to do is show you that God`s food law is always good and must be respected by everyone, whether they are Israelites or strangers. Genesis does not document the food law, but gives insight into Noah`s life. Not eating flesh without blood is not the only thing Noah was told. The Most High not only enacted a food law after Israel`s exit from Egypt. And even if you believe that this was the case, today we have the food law that we must respect. Read this article here that explains how the Messiah`s sacrifice fulfilled the laws of « sacrifice » and « offerings » (offerings of meat and drink). After the elders and apostles of the church pondered the matter, Peter concluded that God had already included the Gentiles in His plan of salvation. God had demonstrated this by sending the Holy Spirit upon them, just as He had done for the Jews. Peter also recognized that the Gentiles were saved in the same way as the new Jewish converts—by grace. And after deliberation, the apostle James came to the conclusion that it would be sterile and painful to bind the Gentiles to moses` laws for salvation. Excerpt from the « Food » entry in the Almanac of the Bible, edited by Geoffrey Wigoder, Shalom M.
Paul and Benedict T. Viviano, edited by Prentice-Hall. Most of the distinctions described here remain in practice among those who obey Jewish dietary laws, but the identification of insects that can be eaten has only been maintained in certain communities in the Middle East (especially yemen) and is rarely practiced in our time. When we read the book of Daniel 9:27, he tells us that the Messiah would die and that his death would put an end to « sacrifice and offerings (sacrificial laws). » It refers only to the sacrifices of meat and drink that were laws before the sacrifice of the Messiah (death and resurrection). But let`s look at some scriptures that are commonly used to assert that there is no obligation for us to abide by dietary laws. A group of Pharisees were among the counselors and agreed with the Judaizers and said, « It is necessary to circumcise them and order them to obey the law of Moses. » These laws of Moses would have included ceremonial, dietary, and moral laws. Involvement, in turn, would be salvation through works. Sacrifices and offerings have nothing to do with the « dietary laws » discussed in this article. So you can see that Colossians 2:16 does not refer to certain foods in dietary laws that should be consumed. Today, I won`t talk about the Old Testament dietary laws that forbid eating pork. Although I intend to cover them in detail in the future. Today I would like to talk about the neglected dietary laws in the New Testament, which are explicitly transferred to the New Covenant Age.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church follows the Old Testament Mosaic Law on Dietary Restrictions, which is also the basis of Jewish dietary laws. They eat only herbivore meat with split hooves and birds without harvest and without a strap; They also do not eat crustaceans of any kind, and they eat only fish with scales. Any other animal is considered impure and unfit for consumption. All vegetables, fruits and nuts are allowed. [Citation needed] Paul does not make new laws. He said herbs, and when Paul talks about food, he always talks about it within the framework of the dietary law given by the Most High. Food laws give us a better understanding of the Most High. They show that the Most High truly appreciates the life of His creation, for there are punishments when we touch their corpses. * Legumes means vegetables; A dish with meals and legumes.
It was eaten by Daniel and his companions, who were determined to abide by the food law. ** Most people will use the following verses below to kill the food law. But if you read the whole chapter, you will see that Peter`s trance was not about meat, but about the introduction of pagans (Europeans/Whites) and Hamites into the Church (Israel). We should not call an ordinary or impure man. Christian dietary laws vary by denomination. The general dietary restrictions imposed on Christians in the New Testament are to « renounce food sacrificed to idols, blood, the flesh of strangled animals. » [1]: 212 [2] Some Christian denominations prohibit certain foods during Lent, which in some denominations cover half of the year and may exclude meat, fish, dairy products and olive oil. [3] Christians of the Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and Orthodox faiths traditionally celebrate Friday as a meatless day (in mourning for the crucifixion of Jesus); many fast and abstain from meat on Wednesdays (in memory of Jesus` betrayal).