Did Mashiach Die to Alter Animal Biological Function?
It is the common Christian view that when “Jesus” died He died for the sins of the world (but by which term they usually mean, unless they are old style Methodists, only the church). His immense and costly sacrifice also somehow magically changed the chemistry, and the biological functions, of certain of God’s creatures — birds that fly in the heavens, animals that roam the earth, and fish that swim in the oceans. Now, Christians will not put these beliefs in exactly the same vocabulary which I have just used to express what they maintain actually occurred at the cross! But it’s certainly (and dogmatically) exactly WHAT they teach. Both Arminianists and Calvinists readily enough recognise that the Torah had some prohibitions for the Jews regarding what Moses considered “unclean” meats, but that all changed, they claim, when “Christ” died. True, there were certain things changed in some of the purity and ceremonial laws, and the contents of the Messianic Scriptures (the so-called “New
