What Does the Bible Teach About Clean and Unclean Meats?

What Does the Bible Teach About Clean and Unclean Meats?

Many people have misconceptions about the biblical teaching on clean and unclean meats. What does Scripture really reveal on the subject of dietary food laws?

Table of Contents

A Bible opened to the book of Leviticus.

Clean and Unclean Meats: Does God's Word Draw a Distinction?

16 minutes
Many people have misconceptions about the biblical teaching on clean and unclean meats. What does Scripture really reveal on this subject?
A man studying a Bible on a table.

How Should We Understand Scripture?

2 minutes
God expects us to learn to properly understand and apply His Word.
A Bible opened to the book of Romans.

Understanding 'Unclean' in Romans 14

3 minutes
Paul's point is that the possible association of a particular food with idolatrous activity had no bearing on whether the food was suitable for eating...
A Bible opened to beginning of the New Testament.

Does the New Testament Abolish Meat Distinctions?

19 minutes
Some people believe that certain New Testament scriptures remove all distinctions between clean and unclean meats. But what do these passages really...
Infographic Clean vs. Unclean Meats

[Infographic]: Which Animals Does the Bible Designate as 'Clean' and 'Unclean'?

5 minutes
God reveals which animals - including fish and birds - are suitable and unsuitable for human consumption in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14. Although...
Raw oysters being served on a platter in a restaurant.

A Matter of Health?

11 minutes
Do science and medicine help us better understand why the Bible designates some animals as unfit for human consumption?
A cast iron skillet on a fire grate with hot flames underneath.

A Matter of Proper Cooking?

2 minutes
What about the common view that God forbade the Israelites from eating pork so they wouldn't catch diseases, such as trichinosis, from undercooked...
A herd of pigs packed together.

A Telling Event From Jesus Christ's Ministry

3 minutes
Many people assume that Jesus Christ abolished the distinctions between clean and unclean meats, even though, as we have seen, no evidence for this...
Infographic - Biblical guide to clean and unclean meats.

[Infographic]: A Biblical Guide to Clean Vs. Unclean Meats

1 minute
Use this chart to determine what animals are clean (good to eat) or unclean (not food) based on the biblical food laws recorded in the book of...
Sliced meat on chopping board

Not Only a Matter of Diet

2 minutes
From cover to cover, from Genesis to Revelation, nowhere in the Bible do we find an example of a servant of God or follower of Jesus Christ eating the...