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Hi Cormack nice to meet you,
The thread has gotten hijacked a little at the moment but happy to address this before hopefully moving back to the OP topic.
Let's look at the context, and subject matter of Mark 7.
Mark 7:1-23.
[1], Then came together to him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
[2, And WHEN THEY SAW SOME OF HIS DISCIPLES EAT BREAD WITH DEFILED, THAT IS TO SAY, WITH UNWASHED, HANDS, THEY FOUND FAULT.
Note very carefully the context here and the topic of conversations the subject matter is to eating with unwashed hands, pots and cups the target audience is to the Jews and Pharisees that know the dietary laws and the subject matter is not to clean and unclean foods but man-made teachings and traditions of washing of hands pots and cups.
[3], For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the TRADITIONS OF THE ELDERS.
[4], And WHEN THEY COME FROM THE MARKET, EXCEPT THEY WASH, THEY EAT NOT. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, AS THE WASHING OF CUPS, AND POTS, BRAZEN VESSELS, AND OF TABLES.
[5], Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not your disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with UNWASHED HANDS?
[6], He answered and said to them, Well has Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
[7], However, IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING FOR DOCTRINES THE COMMANDMENTS OF MEN.
[8], FOR LAYING ASIDE THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD, YOU HOLD THE TRADITION OF MEN, AS THE WASHING OF POTS AND CUPS: AND MANY OTHER SUCH LIKE THINGS YOU DO.
[9], And he said to them, FULL WELL YOU REJECT THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD, THAT YOU MAY KEEP YOUR OWN TRADITION.
[10], For MOSES SAID, HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER; AND, WHOEVER CURSES FATHER OR MOTHER, LET HIM DIE THE DEATH:
[11], But you say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatever you might be profited by me; he shall be free.
[12], AND YOU SUFFER HIM NO MORE TO DO OUGHT FOR HIS FATHER OR HIS MOTHER;
[13], MAKING THE WORD OF GOD OF NONE EFFECT THROUGH YOUR TRADITION, WHICH YOU HAVE DELIVERED: AND MANY SUCH LIKE THINGS DO YOU.
[14], And when he had called all the people to him, he said to them, Listen to me every one of you, and understand:
[15], THERE IS NOTHING FROM WITHOUT A MAN, THAT ENTERING INTO HIM CAN DEFILE HIM: BUT THE THINGS WHICH COME OUT OF HIM, THOSE ARE THEY THAT DEFILE THE MAN.
[16], If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
[17], And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
[18], And he said to them, ARE YOU SO WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING ALSO? DO YOU NOT PERCEIVE, THAT WHATEVER THING FROM WITHOUT ENTERS INTO THE MAN, IT CANNOT DEFILE HIM;
[19] BECAUSE IT ENTERS NOT INTO HIS HEART, BUT INTO THE BELLY, AND GOES OUT INTO THE DRAUGHT, PURGING ALL MEATS?
[20], AND HE SAID, THAT WHICH COMES OUT OF THE MAN, THAT DEFILES THE MAN.
[21], FOR FROM WITHIN, OUT OF THE HEART OF MEN, PROCEED EVIL THOUGHTS, ADULTERIES, FORNICATIONS, MURDERS,
[22], Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
[23], ALL THESE EVIL THINGS COME FROM WITHIN, AND DEFILE THE MAN.
Note there is nothing whatsoever in these scriptures that has anything to do with the laws of clean and unclean meats. The chapter contexts is to the traditions of the Elders of the washing of hands, pots and cups *Mark 7:1-5 and how not doing so defiles a man or not. There is nothing about clean and unclean meats here. Jesus target audience here is to the Jews who knew the dietary laws of Leviticus and Deuteronomy. Jesus himself practiced them as our example.
The point of the scripture being to the chapter context and subject matter, is to the "washing of pots and cups and not washing of the hands that makes a man unclean (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.
Don't forget Jesus practices the laws of clean and unclean foods and also says. "Think not that I have come to destroy the law and the prophets, I have not come to destroy but to fulfill. Till heaven and earth pass away not one jot or tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled - Matthew 5:17-19.
Hope this is helpful.
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. I added this back into my first post above.
