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Living in purity:
The laws of clean and unclean food
Biblical cleanliness is not just limited to food. Biblical cleanliness, especially
regarding food, involves spiritual cleanliness and physical cleanliness. Spiritual
cleanliness means abstaining from ways in which other people worship their gods.
Physical cleanliness means abstaining from things that harm the physical body.
According to Scripture, worshipping Yehovah in ways that pagans worship their
gods is sin:
Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the
temple of the living God; just as God said, I will dwell in them and walk
among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17
Therefore, come out from their midst and be separate, says the Lord.
And do not touch what is unclean; and I will welcome you. (2 Corinthians
6:16-17; cf. Isaiah 52:11, Ezekiel 36:27)
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And eating things, or doing anything, that harms the body is sin:
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is
in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? 20 For
you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.
(1Corinthians 6:19-20)
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Adams
covenant
No animals
eaten
Future
Kingdom
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Hebrew
( tahor)
( tame)
( tumah)
( cheber)
Greek
(katharos)
(akathartos)
(akatharsia)
(koinos)
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For I am Yehovah who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God;
thus you shall be holy, for I am holy.
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This is the law regarding the animal and the bird, and every living thing that
moves in the waters and everything that swarms on the earth,
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to make a distinction between the unclean [akathartos] and the clean
[kathartos], and between the edible creature and the creature which is not to be
eaten.
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Acts 10 The topic is not about the laws of Biblically clean or unclean
meat. Peters vision and the interpretation: All faithful people are equally
clean. Also, the Jewish tradition of separating from non-Jewish people
has been abolished. This tradition is not in the Law of Yehovah.
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On the next day, as they were on their way and approaching the city, Peter went
up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray.
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But he became hungry and was desiring to eat; but while they were making
preparations, he fell into a trance;
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and he saw the sky opened up, and an object like a great sheet coming down,
lowered by four corners to the ground,
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and there were in it all kinds of four-footed animals and crawling creatures of
the earth and birds of the air.
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A voice came to him, Get up, Peter, kill and eat!
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But Peter said, By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything unholy
[koinos] and unclean [akathartos].
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Again a voice came to him a second time, What God has cleansed, no longer
consider unholy.
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This happened three times, and immediately the object was taken up into the
sky.
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Now while Peter was greatly perplexed in mind as to what the vision which he
had seen might be, behold, the men who had been sent by Cornelius, having asked
directions for Simon's house, appeared at the gate;
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On the following day he entered Caesarea. Now Cornelius was waiting for them
and had called together his relatives and close friends.
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When Peter entered, Cornelius met him, and fell at his feet and worshiped him.
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But Peter raised him up, saying, Stand up; I too am just a man.
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As he talked with him, he entered and found many people assembled.
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And he said to them, You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a man who is
a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit him; and yet God has shown me that
I should not call any man unholy [koinos] or unclean [akathartos].
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That is why I came without even raising any objection when I was sent for.
So I ask for what reason you have sent for me.
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Opening his mouth, Peter said: I most certainly understand now that God is
not one to show partiality,
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but in every nation the man who fears Him and does what is right is welcome
to Him.
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Acts 15 - The topic is not about true conversion and repentance to the
Biblical Law of Moses, but the topic is about conversion according to the
Pharisees and submission to the Oral Law of the Pharisees.
Silberburg (2009) wrote:
The Torah has two parts: The "Torah Shebichtav" (Written Law), which is
composed of the twenty-four books of the Tanach, and the "Torah Sheba'al
Peh" (Oral Law).... Originally the Oral Law was not transcribed. Instead it
was transmitted from father to son and from teacher to disciple (thus the
name "Oral" Law).... Until the end of the Talmudic Era (approx. 1500 years
ago) there was a central rabbinic authority which issued gezayrot (edicts)
which were accepted by all the Jews.
Eisen (2004) wrote:
Rabbi Judah HaNasi was the compiler of the Mishnah and the last of the
Tannaim (i.e. sages).... Before the times of Rabbi, it was forbidden to write
a public record of the Oral Law, although notes for private use were
permitted.... Over a period of many years, each subject was painstakingly
analyzed, with legislation left undecided from previous generations written
into law and incorporated into the Mishnah.... Rabbi concluded the Mishnah
in 190 CE.
Romans 14:1-6 The topic is not about the laws of Biblically clean or
unclean meat. The topic is about not judging another person for being a
vegetarian or having fasting days, and not judging a person on things not
in the Law or on things that are merely opinions.
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Now accept the one who is weak in faith, but not for the purpose of passing
judgment on his opinions.
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One person has faith that he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats
vegetables only.
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The one who eats is not to regard with contempt the one who does not eat, and
the one who does not eat is not to judge the one who eats, for God has accepted
him.
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Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or
falls; and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
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One person regards one day above another, another regards every day alike.
Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind.
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He who observes the day, observes it for the Lord, and he who eats, does so for
the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who eats not, for the Lord he does
not eat, and gives thanks to God.
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I know and am convinced in the Lord Yeshua that nothing is unclean [koinos]
in itself; but to him who thinks anything to be unclean [koinos], to him it is unclean
[koinos].
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1 Timothy 4:1-5 - The topic is not about the laws of Biblically clean or
unclean meat. Paul warned about false teachers from demons that teach
things contrary to the Law. He also stated that all food is good with two
conditions: (1) the Word of God permits it and (2) Yehovah is credited for
the provision.
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But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith,
paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,
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by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a
branding iron,
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men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has
created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth.
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For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is
received with gratitude;
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for it is sanctified by means of the word of God and prayer.
Titus 1:10-16 - Paul warned against men who teach the tradition/custom
that non-Jews are unclean.
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For there are many rebellious men, empty talkers and deceivers, especially
those of the circumcision,
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who must be silenced because they are upsetting whole families, teaching
things they should not teach for the sake of sordid gain.
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One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil
beasts, lazy gluttons.
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This testimony is true. For this reason reprove them severely so that they may
be sound in the faith,
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not paying attention to Jewish myths and commandments of men who turn
away from the truth.
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To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving,
nothing is pure, but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
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They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable
and disobedient and worthless for any good deed.
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References
Eisen, Yosef. (2004). Miraculous journey. Targum Press, Inc. and Feldheim
Publishers. Retrieved from
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2714790/jewish/TheCompilation-of-the-Mishnah.htm
Irenaeus. (trans. 1885). Against Heresies. In Roberts, Alexander & Donaldson,
James (Eds.), Ante-Nicene Fathers (Book 5, chapter 8:4].
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0103508.htm
Lopes, Antonino. (1997). The Popes: The lives of the pontiffs through 2000
years of history. Rome: Futura Edizoni.
Ratton, James J. L. (1915). The apocalypse of St. John: A commentary on the
Greek New Testament (2nd ed.). London: R & T Washbourne, Ltd.
Silberberg, Naftali. (2009). What is the Oral Torah? Retrieved from
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/812102/jewish/What-isthe-Oral-Torah.htm
Scripture quotations taken from the New American Standard Bible (1995) and
the King James Version (public domain).
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