Why the contradiction?

Question

After the flood, in Genesis 9:3, God gives Noah and his sons permission to eat any animals or bird as long as the blood is not left, but in Leviticus 11, God gives Moses and Aaron very detailed instructions on what is clean to eat, and what is unclean. Why the distinct difference?
- I'm not looking for responses from angry Christians, I'm a Christian myself, I'm just curious.

Answer 1

There was a "pre-law" law of clean and unclean animals to eat. Look back at Genesis Chapter 7 at verse 2 and see: Of every CLEAN animal, take with you 7 pairs, a male and its mate; and of the UNCLEAN animals, one pair.

7 Pair of CLEAN animals to eat. Only 1 pair of UNCLEAN animals simply to repopulate. Its there. They were not told to eat just any animal.

If you read Genesis 7:2 before Genesis 9:3 you see the whole picture. Again, an example of taking a verse out of context when the only proper way to read scripture is in its entire context.

Once again there is no contradition, where someone is trying so hard to make one. God Bless

P.S. Addition: response to spamandham

You said: Genesis and Leviticus were originated by different people with different intents. Do you expect Harry Potter to be consistent with the phone book as well?

I'm sorry to disagree, but the first 5 books of the Old Testament, consisting of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy are known collectively as the Pentateuch, or the Torah, or better known to us simply as the Books of Moses. These books are written almost as a single flowing writing by these same person or people at about the same period of time. There is great consistency with these books.

Answer 2

Basically it's because the Bible is trash.

The Bible is the biggest load of garbage and codswallop ever written by man, and I’m sure it will go down in history as the greatest load of gobbledygook ever to inflict such traumatic mental and physical damage on humanity, but still today, some people sadly believe the Bible to be true. That’s very sad indeed. Very sad.

When people quote various passages from the Bible, for example ...

Mathew 5:29-30 God encouraged self-mutilation.
Isaiah 13:15-18 God allowed women raped and little children slaughtered.
Genesis 6:11-17 and 7:11-24 God is the greatest mass murder in history.

What happens? Religious people pop up from under every stone with the same old garbage. “That was the old Bible, or we’ve changed the meaning, or wrong interpretation, or we’ve changed the context, or the quotes are out of context or or or, excuse after excuse.”

The fact is, they are Bible quotes, and the Bible is full of evil atrocities which religious people continually cover up, yet seem happy to drum into the minds of gullible little children. This is such a shameful disgrace in a civilised world.

There are hundreds of contradictions in the Bible. It's a very poor man-made fantasy story.

Answer 3

I suppose it's because after eating some of these "unsavory" creatures people started to notice what foods were getting them sick. Therefore Levitical law prohibits the eating of such animals.

For example some shellfish contain toxins and if not prepared correctly they could make you sick... As for pork, a very ready source of Trichinosis.

Answer 4

Genesis and Leviticus were originated by different people with different intents. Do you expect Harry Potter to be consistent with the phone book as well?

Answer 5

Leviticus is all full of odd and strange prohibitons.

let me direct your attention to chapter 22

Answer 6

It seems like a contradiction.

Answer 7

I have no idea. I'm not one to question the bible.