A friend of mine who is a Seventh Day Adventist led me to a pastor (I think he's called Jim Staley) who claimed that the unclean animals in Lev. 11 are unclean because they are, in general, bad for one's health if eaten. He claims this as part of his thesis that the levitical food code still applies in the NT.
This thread isn't meant to be about whether the food code applies or not, but rather about the specific claim of the difference for people's health of eating animals in one or the other group.
Now for some of the 'unclean' ones, I guess it's true (e.g. poisonous frogs or whatever), but I don't know if it applies to all the 'unclean' animals, or if some of the 'clean' ones can be bad for health too (ie carry a statistically significant amount of diseases too, or something like that). I post this in NatSci because IMO this is more a scientific question than else. I'm guessing this topic has been covered before and some of you guys may have looked into it at some point. Any input is appreciated.
This thread isn't meant to be about whether the food code applies or not, but rather about the specific claim of the difference for people's health of eating animals in one or the other group.
Now for some of the 'unclean' ones, I guess it's true (e.g. poisonous frogs or whatever), but I don't know if it applies to all the 'unclean' animals, or if some of the 'clean' ones can be bad for health too (ie carry a statistically significant amount of diseases too, or something like that). I post this in NatSci because IMO this is more a scientific question than else. I'm guessing this topic has been covered before and some of you guys may have looked into it at some point. Any input is appreciated.
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