{"id":28873,"date":"2011-09-09T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=28873"},"modified":"2020-12-21T21:50:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T03:50:22","slug":"what-makes-some-animals-clean-while-others-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/what-makes-some-animals-clean-while-others-not\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes some animals clean while others not?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>When God has created animals, he saw &#8220;it was good&#8221; (Genesis 1:25). Then why he told Noah that there are unclean animals (Genesis 7:2)? Aren&#8217;t all animals created by God and &#8220;it was good&#8221;? What makes some animals clean while others not?<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>If you look at the list of clean versus unclean animals given in the Law of Moses you will see a pattern. Unclean creatures are those that eat dead and decaying things as a part of their diet. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/uncleanness\/\">Uncleanness<\/a>\u00a0for more details.<\/p>\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>Thank you for your answer. At the time of the flood, there was no Law of Moses, then how do we know that the lists of unclean animals are the same for Noah and the Law of Moses?<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>The first five books of the Old Testament are attributed to Moses. Though the Bible never says Moses wrote Genesis, it is generally understood that he served at least as the editor. Given that, though the words clean and unclean were precisely defined in the law of Moses, the understanding of the terms would contain the same meaning as understood by Moses and the Israelites. For example, you will find people arguing that perhaps &#8220;day&#8221; meant something different during the creation, but since Genesis was edited by Moses, the term would have to have the same meaning as the Israelites understood it during the time of Moses.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: When God has created animals, he saw &#8220;it was good&#8221; (Genesis 1:25). Then why he told Noah that there are unclean animals (Genesis 7:2)? Aren&#8217;t all animals created by God and &#8220;it was good&#8221;? What makes some animals clean while others not? Answer: If you look at the list of clean versus unclean animals&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[189,202],"class_list":["post-28873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-genesis","tag-uncleanness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27979,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/why-did-god-tell-peter-that-the-unclean-animals-were-clean\/","url_meta":{"origin":28873,"position":0},"title":"Why did God tell Peter that the unclean animals were clean?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"July 5, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Hi, I was wondering about something from the Bible: In Acts 10 when Peter is on a flat roof praying and then in a trance, he sees a sheet let down by its four corners from the sky, and then God tells Peter to get up, kill them, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Answer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":40689,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/kill-and-eat\/","url_meta":{"origin":28873,"position":1},"title":"Kill and Eat","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"December 15, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"by Terry Wane Benton In Acts 10 Peter was told by God in a vision to kill and eat the animals, and there was a wide assortment, some of which God had forbidden to the Jews under the Old covenant. God explained that those unclean animals (off-limits to the Jews\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Article&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/peter_and_the_roman_captain-250x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":63630,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/uncleanness-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":28873,"position":2},"title":"Uncleanness (Sermon)","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"September 22, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"by Jeffrey W. Hamilton Text: Ephesians 5:1-8 \u00a0 I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Under the Old Testament, there are a series of rules dealing with unclean things \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I am finding that people are condemning as unclean things that God never mentioned. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0B.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The rules confuse people, mostly because they do not understand what uncleanness was about.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Audio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Audio","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/audio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3851,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/uncleanness\/","url_meta":{"origin":28873,"position":3},"title":"Uncleanness (Article)","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"April 5, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"by Jeffrey W. Hamilton Students of the Bible are frequently confused by the Old Testament laws regulating uncleanness. Many do not understand the purpose of the laws and often wonder if they impact the Christian in some way or not. The concept of unclean is certainly an old one. It\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Article&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DirtyPig.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":39885,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/did-god-limit-mans-life-to-120-years-how-many-clean-animals-were-taken-on-the-ark\/","url_meta":{"origin":28873,"position":4},"title":"Did God limit man&#8217;s life to 120 years? 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