Unclean Animals?

Question

The Bible states that certain animals are unclean or an abomination such as shrimp, crab, lobster, pigs etc. If this is the case why did God order these animals to be saved on the Ark? If the purpose of killing everything was to wipe out the people, creatures and plants that God didn't like, why save the abominations? Also why do Christians go to Red Lobster and eat the creatures God has told them not to?

Sol: You claim that the purpose of the Flood was to kill just humans. But God said, "For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth." - Gen 7:4

JAT: He must have had a REAL hard time, he was already 600 years old when the flood came. That's a lot of stress for such an old man.

Robee: Romans 14 is contradicted in Deuteronomy 14:7.

Answer 1

Because Noah's ark isn't real. Come on, how would he have gotten animals from ALL over the world. Give me a break.

Answer 2

First off, the unclean animals were put on the ark to clean up the garbage that would be left behind as well as the dead animals that were not good to eat. How would you like bodies of the dead animals to be piling up outside your house and stinking up the neighborhood? If you have ever been around a pig you will know they will eat anything, including their own. Throw a maggot infested stinking body of a dead animal in a pen with the hogs and they think of it as candy and will chomp it right down. The other unclean animals are the same, put there to clean up the garbage, the fecal matter, etc. What do you get to clean up the feces in a fish tank? The good old Catfish. Then you go eat them after they eat the feces? Guess as they say, you are what you eat. As for the Christians that go to Red Lobster and eat those things, a real Christian would not go there to eat the abomination that God forbade man to eat. Not if that person really knew what God said about it. Some may not know but those that do and do it, not true Christians.

Answer 3

There was once a time in the Old Testament when God required his people to live a separate life form the rest of the people groups around them who had all kinds of pagan beliefs. Classifying certain animals as clean and unclean was one way of doing this. The people of God learned to obey him and trust him with their everyday affairs and lives. Scientists today will tell you that if you keep dietary habits like those specified in the Old Testament, you will actually live a healthier life, away from too much fat, cholesterol, and the such. Today, we are no longer obliged to follow those dietary requirements to be considered holy, but God still requires that we live a separate life apart from the abominations of the world. We learn to do this by reading the Bible, prayer, attending church where we can meet other people who have the same interests and serve as a support group, and living a life of intentional obedience which is seen as holiness by God.
I hope that this has helped.
Mr. M on unclean animals.

Answer 4

Actually if you read the account of Noah's ark, God saved 1 pair (1 male and 1 female) of the unclean animals, and 7 pairs of the clean animals.

As far as your second question about Red Lobster - you may be interested in exploring the difference between moral, civil, and ceremonial law in the Old Testament.

Civil laws were the laws imposed by God in the Jewish theocracy where Moses was the main judge of the people. We do not live in a theocracy today, so these laws do not apply to the world though they are good guidelines.

Moral laws were laws such as do not lie, do not steal, do not murder, etc. These laws still apply and Christians still aim for them today (although we are saved by God's grace, not by how well we obey his law)

Ceremonial laws are ones like you have mentioned, eating unclean animals, wearing certian clothes, temple worship etc. These laws were merely types and shadows of the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Jesus taught that it is not what goes into a man's mouth that makes him unclean, but what comes out of his mouth: his words that make him unclean. Because a man's words reveal what is truly in his heart.

Answer 5

In Leviticus 11:4-40 seven Deuteronomy 14:a million-19 right here's the clarification God did not favor the persons to eat certain ingredients? a million Predatory animals ate the blood of the different animals. because the persons might want to no longer eat blood, they could no longer eat such animals. some forbidden animals had undesirable institutions i the Israelite custom, as bats, snakes, and spiders do for some human beings in the present day. some would were used in heathen non secular practices. To the Israelites, the unclean animals represented sin or undesirable habit. possibly some regulations were given to the Israel purely to remind them always that they were diverse and separate human beings dedicated to God besides the actual incontrovertible reality that we now no longer might want to stick to those guidelines about nutrition (Acts 10:9-16) we may be able to nevertheless study from them them lesson that holiness is to be carried into all elements of existence.

Answer 6

Those animals are unclean because they are scavengers. They are the animals that clean up what is left behind. They are called unclean long before the mosaic laws were instituted God told Noah to take 7 clean animals and 2 unclean animals in Genesis hundreds of years before there was a nation of Israel.

1) God saved the unclean animals to maintain a balance in nature. They are scavengers and there purpose is to clean up

2) It is not that God did not like those animals, he created them

3) As to why some Christians eat all seafood is because they incorrectly believe that the clean and unclean distinction is only in the mosaic laws written hundreds of yrs after God talks about clean and unclean.

Answer 7

That was under the Law, in the Old Testamant, before Jesus' sacrifice. Under the New Covenant, these animals are no longer unclean. The purpose of the flood was to eliminate a sinful generation of *men*, Noah (a godly man) and his family excepted.

Answer 8

It is weird. And what the hell was He thinking with the mosquitoes and lice? Just those four He could have swatted as a favor, don't you think?

Actually, now that you mention it, since there may be as many as a million different species of nematodes, and they don't move all that fast, I'm thinking Noah had a real hard time with those. Poor guy.

Hey! I wonder what the effect of all that rain was on the salinity of the seas and its ability to sustain life.- hmmm. I better stop now, my BLT is getting cold.

Answer 9

God saves the abominable animals as an example and to teach. Why not include the bottom feeders of the sea and teach that these animals are not as clean as the rest or as good to eat.

Answer 10

They aren't unclean....they are part of nature and the eco system. Without them we would be in trouble!
Lobsters are the dumpsters of the sea. The eat all the dead fishparts that fall from other fish feasting on them.
Pigs eat almost anything....they all basically clean up!

Answer 11

Mmm... somehow I don't think a flood is much of a threat to lobsters, crabs, and shrimp. As for the others... well I'm an atheist, so you know my answer to that.