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1Co 10:14-18 is about the sacrificial meal, where eating the sacrifice is a participation in the altar (offering of the sacrifice--1Co 10:18), as in the fellowship sacrifice of Lev 3.
To participate in pagan sacrificial meals was to participate in their altar (worship) which, in reality, was offered to demons (1Co 10:20).
It is not about eating meat sold in the marketplace that was sacrificed to idols.
1Co 10:25 states: "Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, for,
'The earth is the Lord's and everything in it.' "
A sacrifice offered to an idol is nothing, and an idol is nothing (1Co 1:19), so meat sacrificed to idols is no different than any other meat.
The offense of eating meat sacrificed to idols is only by pariticpating in pagan sacrificial meals, which would be a participation in their altar (worship). (1Co 10:20-21)
So 1 Co 10 is pretty clear that we are not to participate in pagan sacrificial meals (1Co 10:18, 20-21),
but we may eat meat sold in the market which has been sacrificed to idols (1Co 1:25),
because an idol is nothing, and a sacrifice offered to an idol is nothing (1Co 10:19).
The food laws, which were part of the Mosaic law's shadows (Heb 10:1; Col 2:17), have been set aside (Heb 7:18-19),
and in the NT there is no unclean food.
Ro 14:14, 17, 20 - "As one who is in the Lord Jesus, I am fully convinced that nothing is unclean. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean (because we must follow our conscience --Ro 2:14-15). . .For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. . .All food is clean. . ."
1Co 8:8, 10:25 - "But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do no eat, and no better if we do. . .Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience (was it sacrificed to an idol?), for, 'The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it.' "
1Tim 4:3-5 - "They order people to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God (his promise to feed us) and prayer (which blesses it to us, and makes all of it in faith)."
Heb 9:10 - "They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial washings--external regulations applying until the time of the new order."
and in the NT there is no unclean food.
Ro 14:14, 17, 20 - "As one who is in the Lord Jesus, I am fully convinced that nothing is unclean. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean (because we must follow our conscience --Ro 2:14-15). . .For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. . .All food is clean. . ."
1Co 8:8, 10:25 - "But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do no eat, and no better if we do. . .Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience (was it sacrificed to an idol?), for, 'The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it.' "
1Tim 4:3-5 - "They order people to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God (his promise to feed us) and prayer (which blesses it to us, and makes all of it in faith)."
Heb 9:10 - "They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial washings--external regulations applying until the time of the new order."
Well put
Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. [SUP]15 [/SUP]Nothing outside a man can make him ‘unclean’ by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him ‘unclean.’[SUP][f][/SUP]” [SUP]17 [/SUP]After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable. [SUP]18 [/SUP]“Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him ‘unclean’?[SUP]19 [/SUP]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.”)
[SUP]20 [/SUP]He went on: “What comes out of a man is what makes him ‘unclean.’ [SUP]21 [/SUP]For from within, out of men’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, [SUP]22 [/SUP]greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. [SUP]23 [/SUP]All these evils come from inside and make a man ‘unclean.’”
Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. [SUP]15 [/SUP]Nothing outside a man can make him ‘unclean’ by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him ‘unclean.’[SUP][f][/SUP]” [SUP]17 [/SUP]After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable. [SUP]18 [/SUP]“Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him ‘unclean’?[SUP]19 [/SUP]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.”)
[SUP]20 [/SUP]He went on: “What comes out of a man is what makes him ‘unclean.’ [SUP]21 [/SUP]For from within, out of men’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, [SUP]22 [/SUP]greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. [SUP]23 [/SUP]All these evils come from inside and make a man ‘unclean.’”
Leviticus 11:1-47 -Leviticus 11:1-30 do not eat unclean animals
Deuteronomy 12
[SUP]15 [/SUP]“However, you may slaughter and eat meat within all your gates, whatever your heart desires, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, of the gazelle and the deer alike. [SUP]16 [/SUP]Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour iton the earth like water.
This is saying both unclean people and clean people may eat of it. It does not say you may eat unclean meat. Strangers or people whoare religiously unclean may eat the meat. It even list 2 clean animals that are not used in sacrifice to show this. If you take the whole chapter together you will see that He is telling them that they only have to bring the animals for sacrifice to the Temple. Once in the land and resting from their enemies they may kill clean animals for food intheir own cities but sacrifices must come to the Temple.
Deuteronomy 12
[SUP]15 [/SUP]“However, you may slaughter and eat meat within all your gates, whatever your heart desires, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, of the gazelle and the deer alike. [SUP]16 [/SUP]Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour iton the earth like water.
This is saying both unclean people and clean people may eat of it. It does not say you may eat unclean meat. Strangers or people whoare religiously unclean may eat the meat. It even list 2 clean animals that are not used in sacrifice to show this. If you take the whole chapter together you will see that He is telling them that they only have to bring the animals for sacrifice to the Temple. Once in the land and resting from their enemies they may kill clean animals for food intheir own cities but sacrifices must come to the Temple.
Deuteronomy 12
[SUP]15 [/SUP]“However, you may slaughter and eat meat within all your gates, whatever your heart desires, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you; the unclean ( Strangers or people whoare religiously unclean)and the clean (People of Faith) may eat of it, of the gazelle and the deer alike
[SUP]15 [/SUP]“However, you may slaughter and eat meat within all your gates, whatever your heart desires, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you; the unclean ( Strangers or people whoare religiously unclean)and the clean (People of Faith) may eat of it, of the gazelle and the deer alike
C
lol haha okay i see what your saying but you need to relook at what your telling me. The stranger and people of faith may eat meat that we desire within our gates....either one they still may eat of it, doesnt say it has to be clean meat it says may slaughter any meat. As long as the blood is drained.
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No where in the Bible New or Old does it teach us to eat anything we want. And me and the others that have said Deuteronomy 12 is not teaching this ether. So I am glad you can see what we are saying. The Jewish people had to take care of the people that are within their gate just as good as they take care of their own health. It was traditional for the people that live within the gates to follow what ever the Jews did.
B
Born again believers are hidden in Christ... that means we are made Holy by abiding in Christ... We are Clean... we cannot be defiled (made unholy) by anything we eat... we should care for our body... lots of foods nowadays are "clean" according to the OT but not good food as well as "unclean" foods might be the only food available and are nutritious. It is really EASY for americans to get all holier-than-THOU about food when they can just go to the grocery store and gt it and have never a thought about how it got there, or for the people who can't afford CLEAN food (priced beef lately)... when a food hardship happens... those people are going to have to come to terms with their error... or starve to death.
That is much debated among the learned. I'd say, contextually speaking, He didn't. If He did then He would have spoken against the law. That does not mean that one cannot eat unclean meat, but to claim Jesus said so might be far fetched. Remember Peter said years later in the vision he received that nothing unclean had entered his mouth at any time. If Jesus had taught him that no meats were unclean he wouldn't have said so.