The Bible said not to call anything that God Created common or unclean, so why can't I eat what I want?
Peter, after having a vision about eating animals that were forbidden, woke up out of his trance not knowing what the vision meant. While he heard a voice telling him to kill and eat, the Bible never told us that Peter ate the forbidden and unclean animals. Later on, Peter received the correct interpretation of the vision that he should not call ANY MAN common or unclean. This had nothing to do with food as some attempt to suggest. Acts 10:25-28
28 And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.
2. What about 1 Timothy 4:1-5, which said that everything that the Father created is good?
Everything that the Father creates is good and serves its purpose. It is good for what he created it to be used for. Notice what Timothy said and how people read into it something that is not there. It simply said “every creature of God is good” Every creature that he created is good. Why else would he create it? Again, it never said that every creature that God created is good to eat! Because people in the America celebrate what they call the Feast of Thanksgiving (which is not a biblical feast), they automatically associate this bible verses with food. Therefore, they have made a link between food and the word creature in the mentioned Bible verse.
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: 5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. 1 Timothy 4:1-5
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:21
3. Genesis 9:3 said “Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.” So, how do you defend your statement that I am restricted to what I can and cannot eat?
In order to understand the Father, you cannot read the Bible in a vacuum. In other words, you cannot read one or two Bible verses on a particular subject and leave out the other verses on the same subject. It’s like reading the first three chapters of a murder mystery novel and drawing a conclusion on who the killer is without reading the remainder of the book. There are three important Bible verses that we need to understand when looking at this particular verse.
#1 I’m the Lord God and I change Not…(Mal.3:6)
#2 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. (Psalms 89:34)
#3 The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works. (Psalms 145:17)
Since the Father gave the dietary law publicly by way of Moses in the book of Leviticus, it was always his desire. He did not allow the people prior to this time to eat what they wanted and then all of a sudden decide that he was going to impose a dietary law some years later to the Children of Yisra’el (Israel). Since he is holy and perfect, that makes the dietary law holy and perfect. He would therefore never support an unholy act. Furthermore, if you continue to read verse 4 of that same chapter, you will see that pieces of the dietary law that was given to Moses is stated. “But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. There were restrictions that were stated there. You were not allowed to eat those things which died of themselves or may have been killed by other animals and you were not allowed to eat the blood of those things which you have killed for meat.
4. Does ‘El (God) Really Think Certain Animals Are An Abomination To Eat?
The better questions is do we, we might not understand or see the wisdom behind why God tells us to do or not to do certain things but what is understood is we should live by every word that comes out of his mouth(Matt 4:4; Lev 11:1, 10-12, 20, 23).God calls unclean animals “detestable things.” It is not food; it was never meant for human consumption. If something is called “food” in the Scripture it refers to animals or plants intended for consumption. Just like poisonous plants cannot be called food, so can unclean animals not be called food? Not only are these unclean animals detestable, but the bible calls consuming them an abomination. This means that it causes disgust or hatred. It is also defined as wicked or sinful.
5. Does Prayer Override the Word of God?
The purpose of prayer is not to determine right from wrong but to acknowledge the creator of the universe and ask for daily and eternal help that only he can provide. What determines right from wrong is God’s law which is his standard of right and wrong! Prayer must be done in the Father’s will in order for him to honor it. In other words, he will not honor your petition when it goes against his word. Because he has already deemed certain animals as unclean, he will not go against his own word or law and make it clean. This causes vain worship.
6. I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.-Romans 14:14
The problem being addressed is infighting between two parties in the early Church. Jewish converts (aware of dietary laws) didn’t mind eating clean animals sold in the heathen markets. The Gentile converts thought heathen idols made sacrificed meat unclean: (1 Corinthians 8:10-11) The argument wasn’t about dietary laws, but meat sacrificed to heathen idols. Paul urged Jewish and Gentile believers not to condemn each other based on sacrificed meat.
7. Does The New Testament and End Times still refer to Animals as Unclean?
Peter, filled with his wisdom refused to eat the unclean animals that he looked upon in a vision. How many people will reject a command given by God? Peter did, and he understood that the Father will NEVER go against his own laws. When Peter was told to kill and eat these unclean animals, he responded “Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean. Peter did not understand at the time what the vison meant, but what he did understand was that the dietary law was still in full effect by those that were keen on keeping the Fathers Laws , Statutes and judgements.
While people continue to suggest that there was an end put to the dietary law, a number of New Testament passages still make a clear distinction between clean and unclean animals. If Christ dying on the cross put an end to unclean animals and we can now pray over anything that we eat and nothing should be refused, why is the bible constantly making a difference?
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.-Revelation 18:2