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NASB | Mark 7:19 because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and is eliminated?" (Thus He declared all foods clean.) |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Mark 7:19 since it does not enter his heart, but [only] his stomach, and [from there it] is eliminated?" (By this, He declared all foods ceremonially clean.) |
Bible Question: I keep being told that Christ abolished certain rules regarding the foods that are acceptable, mainly pork. If this is true I would just like to know the book and chapter that states it cause I can't find it and no one around here can tell me where to look. |
Bible Answer: The vision is about persons, not food ____________________ "I know of no Bible interpreters who insist that eagles, vultures, owls, bats, weasels, mice, lizards, crocodiles, chameleons, snakes, spiders and bugs must now be considered edible." ____________________ And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any MAN (ESV: PERSON) common or unclean. (Acts 10:28 (KJV) Emphasis added.) Acts 10:17-19 'Kefa (Peter) was still puzzling over the meaning of the vision he had seen. ... Kefa's mind was still on the vision. What could it possibly mean? Would God, who established his covenant with the Jewish people and gave them an eternal Torah (law) at Mount Sinai, and who is himself unchangeable (Malachi 3:6), change his Torah to make unclean animals kosher (fit to be eaten, according to Jewish dietary law)? This is the apparent meaning, and many Christian commentators assert that this is in fact the meaning. But they ignore the plain statement a few verses later which at last resolves Kefa's puzzlement, "God has shown me not to call any PERSON unclean or impure" (Acts 10:28). So the vision is about persons and not about food. 'God has not abrogated the Jewish dietary laws. Yeshua (Jesus) said, "Don't think that I have come to do away with the Torah" (Mt 5:17-20). The specific issue of whether Yeshua abolished kashrut has already arisen at Mark 7:19; the conclusion there is that he did not. In Kefa's vision the sheet lowered from heaven contained all kinds of animals, wild beasts, reptiles and birds; yet I know of no Bible interpreters who insist that eagles, vultures, owls, bats, weasels, mice, lizards, crocodiles, chameleons, snakes, spiders and bugs must now be considered edible. God specifies in Leviticus 11 what Jews are to regard as "food."' ____________________ Messianic Jewish Manifesto, David H. Stern, Jewish New Testament Publiccation, Inc., 1988 (Emphasis added.) |