What was the point of unlean animal when they couldn't be eaten?

Answer 1

Cleaning the earth or scanvengers.

Answer 2

Not all animals are meant to be eaten. Every animal has its own function in God's Creation. The pig is nature's garbage man. It is meant to clean up rotting waste on the ground. Therefore, its meat is unsuitable for consumption. If you eat pig meat, you are basically eating garbage, because the impurities they eat go into their meat. Likewise with shellfish, they are also bottom-feeders who feed on rotting flesh, which causes their flesh to taste sweet, but it's very unhealthy for you.

Answer 3

The dietary laws for Jews were meant to separate and distinguish them from the people and cultures around them. If you notice, the animals considered unclean also are animals that tend to be susceptible to bacteria and chancy to eat, i.e. pork, shellfish. In the New Testament, Paul says that nothing is unclean in and of itself.

Answer 4

Natures vacuums, basically. Vultures, for example, eat the dead corpses of other animals. Oysters filter the ocean. Crawfish and catfish are examples of bottom feeders (keeping things clean).

Answer 5

Sometimes, it was a health protection. Because it seems some animals (like pigs) at that time were not prepared properly. Same with shellfish.

The primary reason though, was that it kept them seperated from the nations about them. It kept them different. Which is what God has always wanted for his people. It's why they couldn't cut the extremity of their beards, they wore fringes on their garments, etc. God has always wanted his people to appear, distinct. Part of the world in that we live in it, and work day to day in it. But not part of the world, in that we do not adopt its customs, thought patterns, or way of life.

The same is true in the Christian congregation, we simply have the benefit that we don't have to follow ceremonial laws.

"I request you, not to take them out of the world, but to watch over them because of the wicked one. They are no part of the world, just as I am no part of the world" - John 17:15,16

"For it seems to me that God has put us the apostles last on exhibition as men appointed to death, because we have become a theatrical spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men." - 1 Corinthians 4:9

"If you were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own. Now because you are no part of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on this account the world hates you" - John 15:19

"Because you do not continue running with them in this course to the same low sink of debauchery, they are puzzled and go on speaking abusively of you." - 1 Peter 4:4

"Now the works of the flesh are manifest, and they are fornication, uncleanness, loose conduct, idolatry, practice of spiritism, enmities, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, contentions, divisions, sects, envies, drunken bouts, revelries, and things like these. As to these things I am forewarning you, the same way as I did forewarn you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s kingdom.

On the other hand, the fruitage of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, mildness, self-control. Against such things there is no law" - Galatians 5:19-23

Answer 6

vultures clean up around where things have died. It is all a balance of nature. Why do we have to eat everything???
For instance all trees are not fruit bearing, some for shade, some to hold the soil, some for lumber, and some for beauty

Answer 7

It is not healthy to eat " unclean animals ."

Answer 8

They'er unhealthy. and it shows sacriface for God

Answer 9

they were beasts of burden... work animals