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Unclean
Meat Updated 3-17-2011 By Robert K. Sanders
The old covenant was a legally binding agreement between God and the Israelites. CHRISTIANS ARE NOT A PARTY TO THAT OLD COVENANT. Is this not the definition of twisting the scriptures? To claim or insist Christians keep the old covenant and its conditions is to alter Scripture and its application; something no one have the right to do. The law required one not born of Israel to undergo circumcision before they came under that old covenant. Were Gentile Christians required to undergo circumcision? NO! See Acts 15. Another method of deception is called “replacement theology” aka “substitution theology.” By taking that which God commanded one group and applying it to another group; Christians. If this were valid, then you should sacrifice a son, seeing as God commanded Abraham to do so. Can Christians be held to the conditions of a covenant (contract) they were never a party to, and a covenant that ended? No. Does God deal with us illegally? No. Does God leave things for us to figure out through assumptions? No. Yet SDAs assume that what God required of Israel He requires of us. Assumptions, inference, and rationalizations are also methods of deception. What Are Unclean Animals?
God allowed
Noah was allowed to
eat "everything that lives and moves" after the flood as he was not
under the Mosaic Law.
Ellen White quotes the Bible text then contradicts God.
Ellen G. White the SDA prophetess contradicts God. B The SDA denominational leaders continue EGW's lie to keep her propped up. Seventh-day Adventists Believe 27 Fundamental Beliefs p.285 This one of many examples of how deceptive SDA denominational leaders are to support EGW. God clearly states what Noah was to eat for food and SDAs have to re-interpret it to mean Noah could not eat unclean animals. EGW and the denomination try to keep the church under the old covenant law which makes them a cult. SDAs that try to tell us that Noah and his family would never be allowed to eat unclean meat because they were few allowed on the Ark. Did God made a mistake telling Noah he could eat any living thing that moved? God does not make mistakes; it is people that do not believe God when it does not fit their agenda. Noah would not be so stupid to
start feasting on the few unclean animals as he would wipe out the gene pool. He
knew that it was God's intent to "increase" all the animals as seed for
perpetuating the species. It is like we do when animal species are rare; we put
them on an endangered species list till they multiply.
1Tim.4:4 Paul repeats that every creature is good for food and nothing to be rejected because it is consecrated by the word of God (Gen.9:3 sanctifies all meats as good for food) and prayer. However, man is not to eat the blood of the animal. This commandment is again repeated in Acts 15:29 from blood and strangled. Meaning improperly drained meats containing blood (Gen.9:4). 1 Tim 4:4 - 5 (NIV)
We know that the Gentile converts coming into the early church were eating all kinds of unclean animals. Was there any reprimand by the Apostles decrying their practice of eating unclean meat? NO. Were some of the Jews upset these Gentiles were not following the Mosaic law? Yes they were. It created such confusion that the Jerusalem Council was convened to make clear what was to be imposed on the Gentiles and not imposed on them that accepted the new covenant.
In order to obey any of the old covenant the entry into it was circumcision. Peter's argument: Acts 15:8 - 11 (NIV) 8God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us. 9He made no distinction between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith. 10Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear? 11No! We believe it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are.” Acts 15:10 - 11 (NIV)
Paul tells us that God cancelled "the written code with it's regulations.
These "shadow laws" are NOT to be enforced on Christians as they were shadows of things that were to come and the reality found their fulfillment in Christ. Why live in the shadows of the old covenant and deny the fulfillment of Christ that is found in the new covenant?
Do not let anyone judge you on
these: ANNUAL FEAST DAYS MONTHLY FEAST DAYS WEEKLY SABBATHS Notice that Paul's letters to the Corinthians, Colossians, Romans and Ephesians were addressed to the churches in general and not just to Gentile converts which shows the Jewish converts were no longer under the Mosaic law forbidding eating of unclean meat or keeping the Sabbath or paying tithe. Paul says to eat anything sold in the meat market or at an unbeliever’s table. The unbelieving Gentiles would be serving unclean meat. 1 Cor 10:25 - 27 (NIV) 25Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, 26for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.” 27If some unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat whatever is put before you without raising questions of conscience. Paul declared no food is unclean all food is
clean:
God
abolished the old covenant commandments and regulations at Calvary.
Which in the past was the dividing wall between Jews and Gentiles now
united them both equally for salvation.
The point in time that the written code was canceled, (old covenant)
was when Jesus died on the cross.
(Mark 15:38 NIV) "The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom." When a member of the covenant agreement dies in this case Jesus the
incarnated God of the OT, then the
covenant is cancelled such as a marriage covenant.
What about Peter refusing to eat unclean meat that
God declared clean in Acts 10:9-17 What about Jesus declaring all foods clean in his controversy with the Pharisees? The context of Mark 7 is dealing with Jewish traditions of eating with unwashed hands and not that of making unclean meat clean. This was still taking place under the old covenant. Mark 7:2 - 4 (NIV) 1The Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus and 2saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were “unclean,” that is, unwashed. 3(The Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, holding to the tradition of the elders. 4When they come from the marketplace they do not eat unless they wash. And they observe many other traditions, such as the washing of cups, pitchers and kettles. ) Mark 7:14 - 15 (NIV) 14Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. 15Nothing outside a man can make him ‘unclean’ by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him ‘unclean.’”Mark 7:18 (NIV) For it doesn’t go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body." (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods "clean.") Robert D. Brinsmead makes this observation on the meaning of Jesus declaring all foods clean. Then Mark (or an early church redactor) adds this comment, which appears in the most reliable manuscripts: "In say this, Jesus declared all foods 'clean'" (Mark 7: 18, 19). It is clear that Jesus did not make Mark's editorial comment, for it is well known that even after Pentecost the Jewish Christians continued to observe the Mosaic food laws (Acts 10:14). Mark was probably written for a Gentile audience, and here Mark (or a very early redactor) drew from Jesus's saying the conclusion that Christians were not bound by the Mosaic food laws. http://www.quango.net/brinsmead/JesusandtheSabbath.htm Jesus was still under the Mosaic law when in context of Mark 7. Jesus was ending Jewish traditions and not ending the old covenant Mosaic law. This came later under the new covenant when Sabbath keeping, tithe paying, and forbidding eating unclean meat ended.
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