I stand by what I wrote - and what Jesus Christ said.
The first half of this statement is the only true portion, as Christ never taught what you are suggesting.
No food, and no person for that matter, is actually unclean.
Again, there no scriptural evidence for this, it contradicts the very words of G-D in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14, as well as relying on an individual to completely ignore the meaning of, and the twisting of scripture.
I get your devotion to Pharisaism but that is your cross to bear....
I am not a Pharisee, a Pharisee is a religious scholar of the Torah and the Talmud, who while teaching the letter of the Law does not live the spirit of the Law. I am simply a bible believing, Follower of the Way, that is the Messiah, sent by the G-D of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob.
In particular, as a NEW testament believer, the Sinai covenant and the Torah is no longer binding.
There is no place where the newly established church affirms this, and in particular the dietary laws....
Just as well, this shows you truly haven't read the writings of Moses, The Prophets, or of the Kings. It even goes to show you don't understand the writings of the New Testament as there is no such thing as a "Newly Established Church".
If you say there is no longer a Torah or the Torah is no longer "binding" then you not only contradict the words of G-D and Yeshua you have made the necessity of a Messiah useless.
"Sin is the transgression of the Law(Torah)"-1 John 3:4
So, if there is no Law, there is no Sin. If there is no sin, there is no need for a Savior to save you from the condemnation which comes when you sin.
Not only that, just to show Paul completely disagrees with you about a "Newly Established Church" read Acts 7:38.
"This is He, who having been in the Church in the wilderness with the Angel who spoke with him on Mount Sinai and with our Fathers, who received the living oracles to give to us."
Paul is saying that we are in the SAME church(ekklesia) that was in the Wilderness at Mount Sinai, where the living oracles were given. There is no "New Church".
In fact, the Old Testament Prophets never teach of a "New Church" but of the same People who are going to be part of the New Covenant.
Jeremiah 31:31-33
"[FONT="]30 “Behold, days are coming”—it is a declaration of Adonai—“when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah—31 not like the covenant [/FONT][FONT="]I made with their fathers[/FONT]
[FONT="]in the day I took them by the hand [/FONT][FONT="]to bring them out of the land of Egypt. [/FONT][FONT="]For they broke My covenant, [/FONT][FONT="]though I was a husband to them.” it is a declaration of Adonai.[/FONT]
[FONT="]32 “But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days”—it is a declaration of Adonai—[/FONT][FONT="]“I will put My Torah within them. [/FONT][FONT="]Yes, I will write it on their heart. I will be their God and they will be My people. [/FONT][FONT="]No longer will each teach his neighbor [/FONT][FONT="]or each his brother, saying: ‘Know Adonai,’ [/FONT][FONT="]for they will all know Me, [/FONT][FONT="]from the least of them to the greatest.” [/FONT][FONT="]it is a declaration of Adonai. [/FONT][FONT="]“For I will forgive their iniquity, their sin I will remember no more.”[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT][FONT="]
[/FONT]According to Jeremiah, the Prophet, the New Covenant would include the House of Israel and The House of Judah. It says nothing of a "New House" in the New Covenant. And Ezekiel when speaking of the future of the House of Judah and the House of Israel says that "these two sticks, shall become one" in Ezekiel 37. The Two sticks being representative of Judah and Ephraim(the heir to Israel)
And finally just to prove further that you are uneducated in what you speaking not only because you are blatantly wrong and in contradiction with the word of G-D, a simple game of logic proves you wrong.
G-D says this about the Law:
"The Law is perfect" - Pslams 19:7
"Refreshes the soul" - Psalms 19:7
"Making the simple, wise" - Psalms 19:7
"the Law is truth" - Pslams 119:142
"the Law is holy" -Romans 7:12
"the Law is just" -Romans 7:12
"the Law is good" - Romans 7:12
"your righteous Law is eternal" -Psalms 119:160
"the Law is Spirit" -Romans 7:14
"the Law is eternal, standing firm in the heavens" - Psalms 119:89
Romans 7 teaches that the Law is
SPIRIT, Psalms 119 teaches the Law to be
Truth.
How, again, are we to worship G-D?
"G-D is spirit, those who worship HIM must do so in
SPIRIT and in
TRUTH"-John 4:24
John is teaching us to worship G-D by FOLLOWING THE LAW.
As is OUR DUTY
"[FONT="]A final word, when all has been heard: [/FONT][FONT="]Fear God and keep His commandments! [/FONT][FONT="]For such is the duty of Mankind." - Ecclesiastes 12:13
[/FONT]For such is the love of G-D
"This is love for God: that you keep HIS commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome,"
So, if the Law is Perfect, refreshing to the soul, makes the simple to be wise, Truth, Holy, Just, Good, and Eternal why are so adamant for it to be done away with? Especially when the Law is the basis by which we are to both LOVE and WORSHIP G-D.
Yeshua never spoke against the Law, neither did Paul, John, Peter or any other Apostle.
Matthew 5:17-18
[FONT="]“Do not think that I came to abolish the Torah or the Prophets! I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill. [/FONT][FONT="][/FONT][FONT="]18 Amen, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or dot shall ever pass away from the Torah until all things come to pass."
[/FONT]Acts 24:14
[FONT="]“But this I confess to you, that according to the Way (which they call a sect), I worship the God of our fathers,[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][FONT="]
believing everything written in the Torah and the Prophets."
[/FONT]Acts 10:14
[FONT="]Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything uncommon or unclean.”[/FONT]