The law of unclean meats is made explicit in the law of Moses, but was known (back at the time of the Flood even) far earlier. It’s just a question of good health. God is our Creator (back to the Sabbath again!) and He knows what is best for us.
If you have a feed mill near by check out the large cans of Drano–I wondered why so big? Then on the back I read the iunstructions on how to flush out a pig!
The law of Moses doesn’t say anything about which day (much less Sunday) being the Sabbath.
Actually, the unclean meat was not about health at all. It was part of an entire instruction “manual” if you will on keeping oneself pure. So it was a matter of purity. That indeed was from Mosaic Law.
For instance, if a woman was on her period or had just given birth, she was considered unclean. If a person handled a dead animal that person was considered unclean.
To make oneself clean again, they must wash (in a special ritual) and then make an animal sacrifice. So I would think if you were going to follow Mosaic Law, you would follow it in it’s entirety and not in part.
SDAs have chosen one singular part of an instruction on purity, turned it into something about health so they can disregard the rest of the instruction and claim it for themselves.
Afterall, not entering the church while “unclean” would be a little inconvenient and certainly offering an animal sacrifice for purity would be out of the question.
But…not eating pork and other meats would be simple enough and would set them apart from other religions. This follows the foundation of most Protestant regligions. That is, taking just enough to present themselves as good Christians, changing that just enough to set themselves apart and then naming themselves for that which they chose to set themselves apart.
Hence Lutherens, SDAs, Methodists, etc. etc.
On the matter of the Sabbath. I realize it’s not in OT law. So where does this come from?
