Here Clare lets' add all the contexts back in...
Pre-flood and Moses, man made in God's image (original diet)
Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat (food).
Post-flood and Pre-Moses with no food to eat after the flood...
Genesis 9:3-4 [3] Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.[4] "But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.
Post Moses and written law of God's diet for mankind listing all the clean animals safe to eat and the unclean animals that are not safe to eat and cannot be eaten
Leviticus 11:1-47
Deuteronomy 14:1-29
There is nothing in these scriptures that say Gods dietary laws have been abolished.
Agreed. . .nor does the Word of God
end with Deuteronomy.
But the NT has in its
beginning the revelation to Peter that
nothing is unclean. . .reptiles, wild beasts, four-footed animals, birds--
"Get up, Peter. Kill and
eat." Three times.
1 Timothy 4:3-5 [3], Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God has created to be received with thanksgiving OF THEM THAT BELIEVE AND KNOW THE TRUTH. [4], For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
Nothing is to be refused" couldn't be any more clear, we are freed from all those distinctions of the ceremonial law regarding food.
[5], FOR IT IS SANCTIFIED BY THE WORD OF GOD AND PRAYER.
It is sanctified,
set apart as God's blessing/provision, by the
prayer of blessing before eating (Mt 26:26; Mk 6:41, 8:6-7; Lk 9:16, 24:30).
And it is sanctified by the
Word of God which
authorizes us to eat
everything in Ge 9:3 because it
is good. . .and it didn't then become
harmful in Lev, only to become
good again in the New Covenant.
That is nonsense on its face. . .not to mention contrary to the New Covenant of Christian liberty.
This scripture links to...John 17:17 SANCTIFY THEM THROUGH THE TRUTH THY WORD IS TRUTH...
No, just because some of the same words are used does not mean that Jn 17:17 is "linked" to 1Tim 4:5.
To set food apart by prayer as
God's blessing/provision for us (1Tim 4:5) is
not to
grow in holiness via the revelation of God's holy Word
(Jn 17:17).
The serious misreading of the NT continues.
So it is through the Word of God that we are told in 1 Timothy 4:3-5 that all food created by God is to be received in thanks giving to those who know the truth for it is sanctified by the Word of God. That is, God has told us what foods are clean to eat and unclean to eat through the Word of God! (see Leviticus 11:1-47 and Deuteronomy 14:1-29 where God tells us what foods he has created to be received with thanks giving and those that are not to be eaten).
No, "sanctified by the Word of God" does
not mean telling us which foods are clean and unclean to eat.
It is "sanctified by the Word of God" in Ge 9:3, which
authorizes us to eat
everything because it
is good.
None of those scripture teach all foods are now clean. Romans 14 is to eating and not eating on days that men esteem over other days and not judging anyone in that regards and eating of foods offered to idols.
None of which
alters Paul's clear statements: "
no food (nothing) is unclean in itself. . .All food is clean. . ."
Once again nothing to do with clean and unclean food laws. Hebrews 10 is in regards to meat and drink offerings and ordinances.
Which, like all the ceremonial laws including the the food laws, were temporary, until the time of the new order (Heb 9:10),
i.e., the New Covenant.
Once again nothing to do with clean and unclean food laws 1 Corinthians 10 is in regards to food offered to idols.
Which they were concerned would be unclean, and Paul revealed
they were not unclean (1Co 10:25).
No of course God is not confused, but it seems many are when it comes to God's dietary laws. Nowhere in the scriptures does it say in Mark 7 or the other gospels that Jesus is saying all unclean foods are now clean as the context is to the
washing of pots and cups and hands not eating clean and unclean foods.
It also does not make any difference to me which translations are used in
Mark 7:19 for the Greek word
καθαρίζον used for clean means to purify ("
declared" is not in the Greek it was added by the translators) the application of either Greek words meanings of course is chapter context and subject matter which determines the correct interpretation of the scriptures. They do not fit your interpretation that JESUS is saying all unclean foods are now clean as that is not the context and subject matter of both the scripture *
Mark 7:19 and of the chapter context shown in
Mark 7:2-23.
Using a single Greek word καθαρίζον which means "purify; cleanse make clean" (declared being added by the translators that is not in the Greek)
And indeed, it is not. . .but is Jesus not clear in that text:
"Nothing outside a man can make him unclean by going into him. . .
Are you do dull? Don't you see that nothing that enters man from the outside can make him 'unclean'?"
is in context in the scripture to the word
ἐκπορεύομαι which means to go out of the body or purge and after of course πάντα
βρώματα (all food). The chapter
context of course is to the washing of cups and pots and hands making someone κοινόω unclean or defiled not "unclean foods" *Mark 7:2-5 not to eating unclean foods prohibited in God's dietary laws of Leviticus 11.
The point of the scripture being to the chapter context and subject matter, is not the "washing of pots and cups and not washing of the hands that makes a man unclean a man (defiled)" (Mark 7:8) but breaking God's commandments and what comes out of the heart and mouth of the man that defiles (makes unclean) a man.
The context of making all meats clean is to the "purging out of the body" of impurities from not washing cups and pots and it is following man made teachings and traditions that break the commandments of God over the Word of God that defile (makes unclean) the man, not what one eats which passes out of the man *
Mark 7:2-23. The chapter subject matter is not to eating unclean foods as they were all JEWS who followed the food laws of
Leviticus 11 but the subject matter was to eating food with unwashed hands, pots and cups *
Mark 7:2-5.
To make clean, to cleanse; a. from physical stains and dirt. You can see that the application here is to the context of "purging out or cleansing all food from the system by passing out that which is impure or unclean" from the body.
No, that is clear distortion, as in your other "readings."
Nothing (not just filth from pots and pans) that enters a man
can make him unclean (including
any kind of food) because nothing remains in the body to make him unclean;
i.e., food, no matter what it is, cannot make you unclean.
That is, the nutritious part of the food remains while that which is defiled or unclean passes out of the man.
Precisely. . ."Nothing that enters a man. . .can make him 'unclean'. " (Mk 7:14-18)
The above post I hope demonstrated the context of
MARK 7:2-23 and
context supersedes word definitions for scripture and chapter interpretations in the Hebrew and the Greek.
There is never a conflict between "context" and "word definitions."
But "context" has become pretext here.
The context of Mark 7:2-23 is to pots and cups not clean and unclean foods prohibited from the old testament dietary laws of Leviticus 11.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
NT 2511: καθαρίζω
καθαρίζω (Hellenistic for καθαίρω, which classic writings use); Attic future (cf. Buttmann, 37 (32); Winers Grammar, § 13, 1 c.; WH's Appendix, p. 163) καθαριῶ (
Hebrews 9:14); 1 aorist ἐκαθάρισα (see below); present passive καθαρίζομαι; 1 aorist passive ἐκαθαρίσθην; perfect passive participle κεκαθαρισμενος (
Hebrews 10:2 T Tr WH; on the forms ἐκαθερισθη, T WH in
Matthew 8:3;
Mark 1:42 (ἐκαθερισεν, Tr in
Acts 10:15;
Acts 11:9) and κεκαθερισμενος Lachmann in
Hebrews 10:2, cf. (Tdf. Proleg., p. 82; WH's Appendix, p. 150); Sturz, De dial. Maced. etc., p. 118; Delitzsch on
Hebrews 10:2; Krüger, Part ii. § 2, 2, 6, p. 4; (Buttmann, 29 (25f); Winer's Grammar, 43)); (καθαρός; the Sept. mostly for טִהַר;
1.
to make clean, to cleanse;
a.
from physical stains and dirt: e. g.
utensils, Matthew 23:25 (figuratively,
Matthew 23:26);
Luke 11:39; food,
Mark 7:19; τινα, a leper, to cleanse by curing,
Matthew 8:2;
Matthew 10:8;
Matthew 11:5;
Mark 1:40-42;
Luke 4:27;
Luke 5:12;
Luke 7:22;
Luke 17:14, 17 (
Leviticus 14:8); to remove by cleansing: ἡ λέπρα ἐκαθαρίσθη,
Matthew 8:3 (καθαριεῖς τό αἷμα τό ἀναίτιον ἐξ Ἰσραήλ,
Deuteronomy 19:13; ἐκαθαριζε τήν περί ταῦτα συνήθειαν, the custom of marrying heathen women, Josephus, Antiquities 11, 5, 4; καθαιρεῖν αἷμα, Homer, Iliad 16, 667; cf. ἐκκαθαίρω).
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First lesson from the above section of Mark 7 is that context matters in regards to interpretation of the scriptures
Agreed. . .and you've gone to great lengths to distort it.
Nonsense! Of course the dietary laws were health laws otherwise there would be no reason to give them.
Oh, wow! Just wow!
You could really use a good study of Leviticus. It's the seedbed of NT doctrine.
See post #250 or #264.
Leviticus 11:44-45 does not say that Gods' food laws are not health laws it says that our holiness comes from believing and following God's Word.
Nor does Leviticus say that the sacrifices were types, shadows, pictures of God's own Son who would likewise be offered as a bloody human sacrifice. But there it is anyway.
Leviticus 11:44-45 For I am the LORD your God: you shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall you defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creeps on the earth. [45], For I am the LORD that brings you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: you shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
We become holy by believing and following what God says is the message of Leviticus 11:44-45 (see John 17:17 in the new testament scriptures). The Levitical Priesthood has nothing to do with clean and unclean foods
It has everything to do with the Mosaic Covenant being temporary (Heb 8:13), with the laws being dependent on the Levitical priesthood (Heb 7:11), and the priesthood being
temporary (Heb 7:12),
making the ceremonial laws temporary (Heb 7:12), including the food laws,
according to the apostle Paul (Ro 14:14, 17, 20; 1Co 10:25; Heb 9:10), who received his revelation from Jesus Christ personally, in the third heaven, where he heard things man is not permitted tell (2Co 12:1-5).
Seems it is you that needs to look a little harder.
Methinks the pot is calling the kettle black.
Suffice it to say: you do not have a NT understanding of Leviticus and its ceremonial laws.