Subject: Hank - Diet ??? |
Bible Note: Hello Merv, 1) You are using the definition for clean and unclean that is not revealed until the Law of Moses and superimposing it on Noah. That is simply invalid. That would mean Noah had knowledge of something hundreds of years before it was revealed. Neat trick! The best one could possibly say (and this is conjecture on my part) is that clean and unclean had to do with what was an acceptable sacrifice to worship God. We might infer that from Abel's sacrifice from the flock. As you quoted in Gen 9:3, "every thing that lives shall be meat for you." Everything, not every clean thing. That is not in the text. Stick with the text please. However, it makes sense that Noah did not eat any unclean animal right away for the very reason you gave of extinction. 2) "Why do you assume that since the Bible is silent on what the Gentiles ate they were not eating clean meat?" Because it's an incredibly weak argument because there are no facts to base it on. "This is what set the Jewish people out as being 'peculiar' - because they kept the law of God. Gentile Christians would being doing the same if there heart was changed and they love for what Christ did for them would move them to keep His law." Gentile Christians would not keep the Law because they were not Jews. To be more exact, Christians are neither Gentile nor Jew (Eph 2:14-15). Gentiles did not keep the Law because they were not required to. Again, this is why Paul wrote Galatians--they were attempting to live by the Law, which had never had any authority over them. 3) Gal 4:4 Jesus was born under the Law. That's what the text says. You must explain it as the text uses it. Steve |