What Does the Bible Teach About Clean and Unclean Meats?

Many people have misconceptions about the biblical teaching on clean and unclean meats. What does Scripture really reveal on the subject of dietary food laws?

Understanding 'Unclean' in Romans 14

3 minutes

Paul's point is that the possible association of a particular food with idolatrous activity had no bearing on whether the food was suitable for eating...

A Bible opened to beginning of the New Testament.

Does the New Testament Abolish Meat Distinctions?

19 minutes

Some people believe that certain New Testament scriptures remove all distinctions between clean and unclean meats. But what do these passages really...

Raw oysters being served on a platter in a restaurant.

A Matter of Health?

11 minutes

Do science and medicine help us better understand why the Bible designates some animals as unfit for human consumption?

A cast iron skillet on a fire grate with hot flames underneath.

A Matter of Proper Cooking?

2 minutes

What about the common view that God forbade the Israelites from eating pork so they wouldn't catch diseases, such as trichinosis, from undercooked...

A Telling Event From Jesus Christ's Ministry

3 minutes

Many people assume that Jesus Christ abolished the distinctions between clean and unclean meats, even though, as we have seen, no evidence for this...

Not Only a Matter of Diet

2 minutes

From cover to cover, from Genesis to Revelation, nowhere in the Bible do we find an example of a servant of God or follower of Jesus Christ eating the...

A Bible opened to the book of Leviticus.

Clean and Unclean Meats

16 minutes

Many people have misconceptions about the biblical teaching on clean and unclean meats. What does Scripture really reveal on this subject?

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5 minutes

God reveals which animals - including fish and birds - are suitable and unsuitable for human consumption in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14. Although...