Is the concept of clean and unclean animals a fundamentally Jewish teaching?
A Long before He brought the Jewish nation into existence God classified the animals into categories of clean and unclean (see Gen. 7:1,2; 8:20). This distinction existed in Noah’s day before there were different races or a Jewish nation. Most of the unclean animals are predators or scavengers whose bodies harbor diseases and toxic chemicals. Not only is the Bible clear that the flesh of swine and rodents is unfit for human consumption, modern medical science also extensively confirms this. It is not to rob us of pleasure, but to protect our health, that God warns us not to eat unclean animals. Q Didn’t Peter receive a vision telling him that no animal is unclean? (Acts 10). A Quite simply this vision was God’s symbolic representation of the way the Jews felt about the Gentiles. They saw them as common and unclean. Peter himself explained the meaning of the vision in verse Acts 10:28 “And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep compan
