About unclean animals???

Question

In the Bible it says that God commanded the Jews not to eat unclean animals. What animals were considered unclean??? And why were they considered unclean??? Serious answers only please.

Answer 1

You can find a list in Leviticus 11. Basically, any mammal that doesn't have a split-hoof and chew its cud. Any water animal that doesn't have scales. Pork, seafood (not fish), catfish, most bugs, dogs, cats, horses, some birds.........all are unclean.
Most of the animals on that list are dirty. Pigs will eat ANYthing. Shrimp are bottom feeders and dirty little critters. So most of those are unclean for health reasons. Even though we're not bound by the Old Testament Law anymore, I still can't help but remember that maybe those things are still unhealthy unless they're farm raised just for the purpose of food. In the wild, they're still filthy and wormy.

Answer 2

In Leviticus 11:4-47 Deuteronomy 14:1-19 Here is the reason why God didn't want the people to eat certain foods? 1 Predatory animals ate the blood of the other animals. Since the people could not eat blood, they could not eat such animals. Some forbidden animals had bad associations i the Israelite culture, as bats, snakes, and spiders do for some people today. Some may have been used in heathen religious practices. To the Israelites, the unclean animals represented sin or unhealthy habits. Perhaps some restrictions were given to the Israel just to remind them continually that they were different and separate people committed to God Although we no longer must follow these laws about food (Acts 10:9-16) we can still learn from them them lesson that holiness is to be carried into all parts of life.

Answer 3

In the Bible: God commanded the Jews as well as the christians not to eat unclean animals. Wasn't {Matt.2:2}Jesus a Jew and don't we supposed to {COL.2:6; 1PET.2:21}follow Jesus?

** TEXTS THAT INVOLVE THE CLEAN AND UNCLEAN MEATS:
GEN.18:7-8; LEV.11; 20:25; DEUT.14; ISAIAH 66:17; EZEK.22:26; DAN.1:8; MATT.3:4; LUKE 24:41-43; ACTS 10:10-14; 1COR.3:16-17; 9:27; 2COR.6:17; AND REV.21:8.

CLEAN ANIMALS
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UNCLEAN ANIMALS
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The unclean animals were considered to be unclean because of diseases that they carried. If you see a pig; it eats the slop of the earth. Also a lobster carries diseases because it's at the bottom of the ocean floor where it eats all the junk. Here's more information in these sites why people don't eat these animals.
http://www.biblestudy.org/basicart/sixuncln.html
http://www.noorhidayatnoordin.com/2006/08/16/why-do-i-not-eat-pork/
http://sites.mercola.com/2001/apr/11/pork.htm

Answer 4

1. To answer your question about which animals were considered clean and unclean, I am pasting a section from the Jewish enclyclopedia:

All quadrupeds that chew the cud and also divide the hoof (Lev. xi. 3; Deut. xiv. 6); for instance, the ox, the sheep, the goat (i.e., the sacrificial animals), the hart and the gazel, the roebuck, the wild goat, the pygarg, the antelope, and the chamois(Deut. xiv. 4-5). Among other forbidden animals, the camel, the rock-badger
the hare, and the swine were excluded by name (Lev. xi. 4-7; Deut. xiv. 7-8


Fish proper; i.e., "whatsoever hath fins and scales . . . in the seas and in the rivers" (Lev. xi. 9; compare Deut. xiv. 9).

Birds. Here the Law proceeds by way of elimination. From the rather lengthy list of forbidden birds (Lev. xi. 13-19; Deut. xiv. 11-18) it may be concluded that all the birds of prey and most of the water-fowl were considered unclean. The bat closes the list.

The winged creeping things "that go upon all four" which "have legs above their feet to leap withal," of which four kinds of locusts are named (Lev. xi. 21-22). All the other creeping things are most emphatically and repeatedly forbidden and held up as the greatest abomination (Lev. xi. 20, 31-38, 42-43). A list of creeping things to be avoided includes the weasel, the mouse, four kinds of lizards, and the chameleon (Lev. xi. 29-30).Restrictions were also placed on the use of the flesh of clean animals: it was forbidden to eat it when the animal had been torn in the field by a carnivorous beast (Ex. xxii. 30), or when it had died a natural death, or had been carried off by disease (Deut. xiv. 21).

2. Your second question asks for the rationale behind why some are clean and others not. No one really knows for sure!! There are nine different theories that try to explain the distinction --each one has some good points about it, but none of them is successful in really being an ironclad determination:
1. Obedience Testing--to test Israel
2. Arbitrary Divine Command--because God has made the distinction for reasons not stated
3. Assertion of Divine Authority--God has made the rules to keep Israel mindful of God's presence
4. Moral Discipline--a moral training exercise
5. Hygiene--some meats can be dangerous, but more recent study shows that all meat can be affected by bacteria and toxins
6. SpiritualSymbolism --animals portray certain qualities
7. Pagan Worship --if an animal is worshipped by another culture, then Isreal should not eat it
8. Religious Badge--a way of Israel being distinctive among other nations
9. Eclectic theories--Combinations of the above theories

Answer 5

God considered them to be unclean, and He gave the Israelites the list. That's why they were considered unclean. Why did HE consider them unclean? Probably because He knew that different ones of them would be harmful to human consumption in some way or another. It was also to put a differentiation between the chosen people of God and other nations. As for which animals were clean and which were unclean, the list is found in Leviticus chapter 11.

Answer 6

Unclean as food animals.
like:
Bats
camels
horses
pig

Answer 7

1ti 4:3 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.
1ti 4:4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
1ti 4:5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer

It means what it says. Every creature of God---that is, creatures set apart by Scripture (or, as verse 5 puts it, "sanctified by the Word of God") is good for food. (The "creatures of God" that are good for food and of which we are to thankfully receive obviously do not include slugs, maggots, kittens, or pigs, among other things.) Where, in the Word of God, are such meats sanctified? You'll find them in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14.

Answer 8

anything with cloven hoofs. that all changed later when Christ removed the law, and brought grace. see below:

mark 7: 18- 23 Are you so dull?" he asked. "Don't you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him 'unclean'? 19For it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body." (IN SAYING THIS, JESUS DECLARED ALL FOODS "CLEAN.")

20He went on: "What comes out of a man is what makes him 'unclean.' 21For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, 22greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23All these evils come from inside and make a man 'unclean.' "

Answer 9

almost ALL animals r unclean ! but cooking kills all the germs LOL. Everything that's created by God n is not poisonous can be eaten

Answer 10

Pigs lay in their own feces,an unclean animal,a dog will eat feces,an unclean animal,Fish that are bottom feeders are unclean,ETC.