Hang on that is kind of incorrect thing to say, people could proberbly prove the moon is made of cheese by cherry picking verses from the Bible, you see it all the time on here especailly with cults like King James Only who pick on a couple of verse through the Bible to claim King James of 1611 is perfect final authority.
NO what you should be asking is show me where God has specifically told us not to eat meat. There is none. If we were not to eat meat then why did God give the Israelites quails, that's a type of bird,to eat?
If God told man "you can not eat meat" then gives meat to people to eat,
then that would make God a liar and hypocrite.
Very good point!
Besides, the main reason for the dietary laws was to keep HIS Chosen People away from the Pagan Feasts that frequently ended up in drunken orgies. REMEMBER a Jew was considered defiled if he so much as set foot into a gentile's house. The secondary reason was due to the lack or refrigeration, it protected them from animals known to carry major diseases of the day. HOWEVER, THE MAJOR REASON REMAINS, to keep the race pure UNTIL Messiah could come from the Line of DAVID. Don't you think Satan had a very active part in using those Pagan Feasts to tempt God's People in so that he (Satan) could pollute the race so that Messiah could not come purely through the line of DAVID as planned?
When GOD wanted the Two Peoples to become ONE (Jews and Gentiles); GOD Himself ended the Dietary Laws, otherwise Peter would have had to REFUSE to go into the house of Cornelius.
Acts 10:10-16 (NASB)
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10 [/SUP] But he became hungry and was desiring to eat; but while they were making preparations, he fell into a trance;
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11 [/SUP] and he *saw the sky opened up, and an object like a great sheet coming down, lowered by four corners to the ground,
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12 [/SUP] and there were in it all
kinds of four-footed animals and crawling creatures of the earth and birds of the air.
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13 [/SUP] A voice came to him,
"Get up, Peter, kill and eat!"
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14 [/SUP] But Peter said,
"By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything unholy and unclean."
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15 [/SUP] Again a voice
came to him a second time,
"What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy."
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16 [/SUP] This happened three times, and immediately the object was taken up into the sky.
THAT barrier Peter mentioned in verse 14, extended even to entering a gentiles house because unclean animals were consumed there. It would have PREVENTED Peter from even going to Cornelius' house. HENCE AFTER GOD ENDED THE DEITARY LAWS, GOD INSPIRED PAUL TO SAY:
1 Timothy 4:4-5 (NKJV)
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For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving;
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for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
I know that about now, those who disagree with me are thinking, but that contradicts what Jesus said about not one jot or tittle shall pass from the LAW. AND that is TRUE, unless GOD Himself gives us an EXCEPTION to that rule.
Has Jesus not been our High Priest ever since the beginning of the Church?
What Tribe is Jesus from? Correct, He is called the Lion of the Tribe of Judah!
Then the Priesthood changed from the Tribe of Levi to the Tribe of Judah, didn't it?
Hebrews 7:12-14 (NASB)
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For when the priesthood is changed, of necessity there takes place a change of law also.
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13 [/SUP] For the one concerning whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar.
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14 [/SUP] For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, a tribe with reference to which Moses spoke nothing concerning priests.