As we study God’s Word, it’ important to keep the following verse in mind
2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Some people point to Acts 10, which they think says it’s now okay to eat pork. However, Acts 10 is about people, not about food.
God is using this as an analogy. God will not allow Peter to touch these wild creatures. God did not allow Peter to eat any part of this filth, for God is using these animals to teach Peter something entirely different.
The word common also means unclean. Where the previous uses of the word "unclean" were in reference to evil spirits, here it is in reference to the ceremonial uncleanness of the Levitical law. Every one of these animals and fowl was listed as unfit from the mouth of God Himself.
The next place people quote when they try to justify eating scavengers is 1 Timothy 4:3.
1 Timothy 4:3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
The most important part of this verse is the very part that most Christians, pastors included, skip right over. That part is, "which God hath created to be received..." First let's fix the fact that with thanksgiving, all those things that are stated in God's Word that are able to be received, can be eaten by those that believe and know the truth.
Do you know those things that are written in God's health laws that are good to be eaten, from those things that are not to be eaten?
If you do not know those health laws, it is no wonder that you are poor in health. God did not intend for you to eat garbage cans, and vacuum sweepers. That is what He created certain animals for, to be the garbage cans and vacuum sweepers of the earth. They are the ones that can hold, store and live of the putrefied things on the earth. Your body was not created to do so.
The truth is in God's Word. Preachers are teaching that we can partake of any and everything that we want to, and they say this their documentation for saying such a thing. They teach that as long as you give thanks for what you eat, you can eat anything.
However, if that is what you derive from that, you have a problem, you have the hot iron of deception and doctrines of devils that have seared your mind. You are just not paying attention to what God's Word has to say.
God's Word doesn't say you may partake of any meat that there is.
Quite the contrary, it says "WHICH GOD HATH CREATED TO BE RECEIVED..."
This means that there is a condition applied to what is being said. What conditions then is all the meats that God has said that He created as food as stated in God's Word, those are the ones that we are to eat with thanksgiving.
God also created many creatures that are not for consumption, and he listed them in his health laws. The warning is by God that you can't eat those without suffering the consequences when one shows up in poor health.
Each animal has its own purpose, some are for food while others are not.