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Yes, I think so. In Leviticus 20, the role of the food laws is rather clearly stated as being to set the Jew apart from the rest of the world.Were they to make the Jews a distinct people?
I see no Biblical evidence for this position.To keep them healthy.
Agree - curious why people think otherwise.The idea that it had to do with health is a purely modern anachronistic idea that has no support in either Scripture, or historic Jewish teaching.
You cannot simply assume a connection between the food laws and this promise about protection from disease. God could have made the very same promise in the complete absence of the food laws.'And He said, "If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the LORD, am your healer."'
I see no Biblical evidence for this position.
I think the best explanation is the one that is actually given in the Scriptures. And that is that the food laws were given to mark out the Jews as a distinct people. See Leviticus 20:25 as one example.That's what you see, but, in my opinion, this is the explanation, the best explanation, they were given to keep them healthy, those were primitive times, not like in our time when we know so much about how to eat "safe" food.
Like every heritage has a dish unique to their culture?
As in God marked the children of Jacob as a special, called, covenant people to be His nation among the nations, through which would come the Messiah, the Savior and Redeemer of all men.
-CryptoLutheran
That's what you see, but, in my opinion, this is the explanation, the best explanation, they were given to keep them healthy, those were primitive times, not like in our time when we know so much about how to eat "safe" food.
The problem with this is that the jews got it all wrong and they could not understand this, God was welcoming all humanity from the early beginning, not only the Jews, in fact, even in the time of the Jews, God was already revealing Himself to other tribes, hence the coming of the wise man when Christ was born, the mags, they were not Jews, that was not a Jewish title.
Deuteronomy 5:1-4
"And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, 'Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them. The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. Not with our fathers did the Lord make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today. The Lord spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire,'"
Psalm 147:19-20
"He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes to Israel. He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know His rules. Praise the LORD!"
-CryptoLutheran
Not really, in my opinion. The kosher laws were more significant than a “national dish”Like every heritage has a dish unique to their culture?
Must have been quite the traditional recipe.As in God marked the children of Jacob as a special, called, covenant people to be His nation among the nations, through which would come the Messiah, the Savior and Redeemer of all men.
Why where certain animals unclean? For example, Camels. What exactly made them "unclean"?
I see no Biblical evidence for this position.
Why did God say to not take of the fruit of the tree of knowledge? He said they would die. Did he stipulate that about the other laws?I agree with VIaCrucis that it’s not health. ......................
Unfortunately there’s no explanation about why the laws exist, so we have to guess.
Gen 3 doesn't really say why the fruit was prohibited. The snake gives an explanation, but it could be a lie. However Gen 3:22 sort of makes it look like the snake was right. If so, the purpose was to keep people from becoming like God.Why did God say to not take of the fruit of the tree of knowledge? He said they would die. Did he stipulate that about the other laws?
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