First i want to look at what the bible says about clean and unclean animals then we will examine what the new testament says about the food laws.
Clean and unclean food in the bible new testament.
The new testament did not abolish the distinction between the clean and unclean flesh foods seventh day adventists believe p.
Even so such a metaphor would not make sense if there were not still a distinction between actual clean and unclean birds.
Everyone has favorite foods and in our day many of the most cherished dishes are scripturally unclean.
Such a view is glaringly absent in the bible.
Archaeology and prophecy have proven the bible to be true.
That is the issue at stake.
Clean and unclean in the new testament author.
Clean and unclean foods in the new testament to understand what is clean and unclean in the new testament the first thing we have to do is look at the death of the messiah and what it represented.
Christ taught many principles which were designed to prepare the jews for the fact that the law of moses was to be abolished.
The food laws are broken up into four categories land animals sea creatures birds and creeping things.
The belief is that now we are in the new testament there is no longer any need to worry about what we eat.
4 11 and john 1 john 3 4.
And they use a few favorite new testament scriptures which they say prove that today all food is okay.
Clean foods in the new testament are all foods okay to eat today.
God called his people to separate themselves from the impurities of the world.
No new testament passages describe christians eating meats that had been considered unclean.
Clean and unclean were concepts very familiar to those under the old testament law.
The principle of being clean crosses into the new testament as well with the idea of living spiritually pure 2 corinthians 6 17 and seeking to be holy living a life worthy of our calling colossians 1 10.
In spite of what many believers think the bible does not in the old or new testaments abolish or do away with god s laws about foods that he created either to be eaten clean or avoided unclean.
But that s old testament many will argue.
American king james version may figuratively refer to demons called unclean spirits in the new testament.
Each of these sections contains instructions about how to determine what is clean and unclean.
We find this critical information regarding which meats are good for us clean and which are not unclean in leviticus 11 and deuteronomy 14.