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The only creatures that God sanctified are the clean animals. To sanctify something means to set it apart, or make it holy. God set the clean animals apart - Leviticus 11Then I guess you have a problem with Paul as well! He condemned the Judiazers for trying to get the gentiles to obey the Mosaic dietary laws!
1 Timothy 4 King James Version (KJV)
4 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
Gentile believers are not bound to the Mosaic dietary laws. Neither are Jewish believers unless their conscience is weak and they believe they must refrain!
Romans 14 King James Version (KJV)
14 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
2 For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
3 Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
4 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
I have no problem with one who wishes to follow the Mosaic dietary laws! That is their privilege in Jesus. But if they seek to impose their individual liberty on others, I am sorry I will resist them!
Contextually, “every” refers to every creature sanctified by the word of God(Leviticus 11), not every single creature in existence.
Romans 14:1-4 discusses the dispute between believers who are vegetarian and the believers who eat clean animals.
It’s not about a dispute between believers who do and don’t eat unclean animals.
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