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 Daugherty I've been super busy lately so haven't written anything on this page for a few weeks. However, my facebook feed threw up a blog post which sums up the food laws succinctly, so, with permission of the author, I have copied it here: If the food laws were “done away with”… Why is Isaiah describing end-time judgment on people eating pork? Isaiah 66 is not about the past. It is prophetic. “For behold, Yahuah will come with fire… For by fire and by His sword will Yahuah plead with all flesh… And the slain of Yahuah shall be many. Those who sanctify themselves… Eating swine’s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, Shall be consumed together,” says Yahuah. (Isaiah 66:15–17) This is clearly future. It describes His coming in fire and global judgment. So if pork was made clean… Why is it listed as a reason for destruction at the end? Before you say: “But Acts 10 !” Acts 10 was about people, not pork. Peter literally explains the vision: “Yahuah has shown me that I shou...
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Mark 7 Revisited: Should Christians Follow the Dietary Laws? [Part 3b]

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  Mark 7 and Matthew 15 Revisited   Introduction Recently I received a comment about my article ‘ Jesus Declared all Foods Clean – or did He? ’ which made me realise that I had failed to address Jesus’ own teaching to His disciples explaining what had occurred. In that earlier article, I had endeavoured to show that Jesus did not in fact declare that all types of animal meat was now on the menu and you could eat anything you wanted with a clear conscience, but rather the issue at hand was ritual cleansing of the hands before eating. However, in both Mark 7 and Matthew 15, Jesus does not stop after rebuking the Pharisees, but goes on to explain the matter to His disciples: it is not what you eat that makes you unclean, but rather it is the sinfulness of the human heart that defiles people, for “nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him unclean (Gk. koinoi – see below for an explanation of this word), for it does not go into his heart but into his stomach” ...
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The Biblical Definition of Food

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  Broma vs Trophe I can do no better than point you to another blog post, a couple of quotations from which appear below:  “When we read the word “food” our English manner of thought automatically defines it as “things that are eaten”. The Greek word that conveys that is  #5160 “ trophe ” From  trepho ; nourishment (literally or figuratively); by implication, rations (wages) — food, meat. Fish food, cat food, guinea pig food. Its all food. Worms eat dirt. vultures eat dead things. For them, thats food. They eat it and it provides the nourishment they need to thrive. When we contrast that with the other Greek word that is often translated to “food” in English, we find that it is much more specific.  #1033 “broma” From the base of  bibrosko ; food (literally or figuratively), especially (ceremonially) articles allowed or forbidden by the Jewish law — meat, victuals. The Jewish Law agrees with the Law of God about which meats are clean and which...
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Nothing is unclean of itself (b): Should Christians Follow the Dietary Laws [Part 5b]

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Romans 14v14 (part 5b)  Paul is addressing three issues, all relating to food and holy days: ·         Those who eat anything vs those who eat only vegetables (see v 2-3) ·          Those who consider a day holy vs those who think all days are alike (see v 5-6) ·         Those who eat anything vs those who abstain (see v 6) Then he adds a comment that most people believe is a summary of the whole passage: “I know – that is, I have been persuaded by the Lord Jesus Christ – that nothing is unclean of itself. But if a person considers something unclean, then for him it is unclean”  (v 14) We have already addressed v2 in association with 1 Corinthians 8-10, here [ https://christiansandtorah.blogspot.com/2025/11/should-christians-follow-dietary-laws.html ]. In this post I hope to cover the remaining issues and also look at the matter of ‘personal opinions’. ...
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