show me where God said ONLY israelites are to eat or live like this
the thing is if God shows you to live like this then great
if God does not show you to live like this then great
but God did not ever say this is only for israelites
TF,
I've done it already. See Lev 11:1-3.
Experience never is the determinant of God's Law. The text IS.
Your claim is:
God did not ever say this is only for israelites
In Lev 11:1-3 (NIV) God said:
The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron. He said to them, 2 “Speak to the Israelites. Tell them, ‘Many animals live on land. Here are the only ones you can eat. 3 You can eat any animal that has hooves that are separated completely in two. But it must also chew the cud...
The Lord did NOT say: 'The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron. He said to them, 2 “Speak to the Israelites AND THE GENTILES...'
This message of kosher food and dietary restrictions was for the Israelites only. So says the Bible!
This is from a
Messianic Perspective (Jewish Roots of Christianity):
Is that Kosher?
The only time most people encounter the expression “is that kosher?” is as a euphemism for “is that ‘legit’ “ but the word kosher has a very specific meaning in the Tanakh (Old Testament). The term kosher comes from the Hebrew word כָּשֵׁר (kasher) meaning “fit” – as in ‘fit for consumption’ and refers to food that is fit to eat according to Jewish dietary law.
The Torah (the Law of God as recorded by Moses) outlines the Jewish dietary laws in Leviticus 11:1-47 and Deuteronomy 14: 3-20, with the passage in Deuteronomy beginning and ending with the underlying reason for them;
“…you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. The Lord has chosen you to be His own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.”
Leviticus 14:2
The Jews were called over and over again throughout the Old Testament to live in a manner that distinguished them from the nations [Gentiles] around them; not to go after their gods and not to practice their customs that God described as abominations.
The Jewish dietary laws, along with circumcision and the practices involving Sabbath and the Feasts delineate the Jews as a people. Jews were to be distinctive so that the nations around us would see us as set apart as a holy people.
The laws associated with how we as Jews conduct ourselves are collectively known as halakha and are divided into laws of diet, purity and idolatry. Much of the confusion by the early Church Fathers in interpreting texts to do with Jewish dietary laws had to do with a failure to understand that in the Jewish mind of the first century there was a distinction between laws of purity and dietary laws and the laws of idolatry and dietary laws. We will elaborate on this further on in this article as well as a future article on whether Christianity evolved from the Judaism of the second Temple period.
For Jews, not eating certain foods was never a matter of salvation; eating foods that were unclean was not a sin requiring atonement.
Leviticus 11 refers to the foods the Jews were not to eat not as unclean or detestable – but as “unclean for you” (Lev 11:8) or “detestable to you” (Lev 11:12, 13a, 20 & Deut 14:7, 14:10, 14:19). In the construct of the phrase “detestable to you” (l’chem hem t’meh-im), the l’ denotes purpose, intention or result. These animals did not possess an objective property called “impurity”; they were not in and by themselves unclean – they were to be considered unclean to us, as Jews – to be considered detestable to us, as Jews. The purpose, intention or result was to delineate us from the nations around us.
In case we missed it, the reason why were to not eat these foods is repeated again at the end of the lists of animals, fish, birds and insects in Deuteronomy 14:21a.
“…For you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God.”
Deuteronomy 14:21a
We know these foods were not unclean in and by themselves, because it says in Deuteronomy 14:21b that we can give them to a “temporary resident living within your gates and he may eat it or you may sell it to a foreigner [a Gentile]”. The Law was abundantly clear that we were not to mistreat Gentiles in any way; if these creatures were unclean in themselves and unfit for people to eat, God would not have permitted us to give them or sell them to Gentiles to eat.
So, this Jewish source considers that ...
The Torah (the Law of God as recorded by Moses) outlines the Jewish dietary laws in Leviticus 11:1-47 and Deuteronomy 14: 3-20, with the passage in Deuteronomy beginning and ending with the underlying reason for them;
“…you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. The Lord has chosen you to be His own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.”
Leviticus 14:2
The Jews were called over and over again throughout the Old Testament to live in a manner that distinguished them from the nations [Gentiles] around them; not to go after their gods and not to practice their customs that God described as abominations.
With respect, you are the one out of step with what the Jews consider is kosher for Jews only and NOT for the Gentiles.
Oz'