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Matthew 5 (NIV) 17“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. 19Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Verse 17 here has been ringing in my head for a while and I have finally decided to do my research on the food laws being made obsolete, and to my surprise, I can't find any truth to it! Were the Old Testament food laws really done away with?
I always clung to Mark 7 to reassure me that it was.
(NIV) 17After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable. 18“Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? 19For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)
20He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. 21For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
But when I did my parallel study on this I found this at verse 19: (KJV) Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
Doing an interlinear study here, it seems like Jesus is just saying that food going through the digestive system is being cleansed, which would fit with the context He is using with His disciples.
And then there is Acts 10 and Peter's vision, I always used this one to back my preconceived notions that all foods were clean too. But if you pay attention to the whole chapter, God was simply using the vision to teach Peter something.
(NIV) 28He said to them: “You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile. But God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean.
And look at what Peter said to the Lord!
(NIV) 14“Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”
Even after Jesus came and lived with Peter for 3 years and died and rose again and ascended to Heaven, Peter has this vision yet he was still holding on to the OT food laws!
I am not convinced the OT food laws are obsolete like some people like to insist.
This is the final verse I will use for this OP.
Hebrews 8:13 (NIV) By calling this covenant “new,” he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.
Does the "New Covenant" necessarily mean that old laws are now made obsolete? If so which ones? All or none? Just a few?
This brings me back to the beginning of my OP where Jesus said “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them."
Verse 17 here has been ringing in my head for a while and I have finally decided to do my research on the food laws being made obsolete, and to my surprise, I can't find any truth to it! Were the Old Testament food laws really done away with?
I always clung to Mark 7 to reassure me that it was.
(NIV) 17After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable. 18“Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? 19For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)
20He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. 21For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
But when I did my parallel study on this I found this at verse 19: (KJV) Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
Doing an interlinear study here, it seems like Jesus is just saying that food going through the digestive system is being cleansed, which would fit with the context He is using with His disciples.
And then there is Acts 10 and Peter's vision, I always used this one to back my preconceived notions that all foods were clean too. But if you pay attention to the whole chapter, God was simply using the vision to teach Peter something.
(NIV) 28He said to them: “You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile. But God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean.
And look at what Peter said to the Lord!
(NIV) 14“Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”
Even after Jesus came and lived with Peter for 3 years and died and rose again and ascended to Heaven, Peter has this vision yet he was still holding on to the OT food laws!
I am not convinced the OT food laws are obsolete like some people like to insist.
This is the final verse I will use for this OP.
Hebrews 8:13 (NIV) By calling this covenant “new,” he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.
Does the "New Covenant" necessarily mean that old laws are now made obsolete? If so which ones? All or none? Just a few?
This brings me back to the beginning of my OP where Jesus said “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them."
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