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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, Cal. · Apr 25, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 17.

3423.— Food to Eat

By Editor

Does not Gen. 9:3 indicate that God designed that man should eat any kind of meat He had placed on earth? Please explain also Mark 7:15. A. M.

There are those who think all animals are good for food, and so eat crabs, and frogs, and swine, and snails, and snakes, and toads, and lizards, and worms, etc., etc. The simple fact is that when Noah came out of the ark there was but one pair each of the unclean animals, and they were to be preserved; but there were fourteen each of the clean beasts. The extra were for sacrifice and food. To understand Mark 7:15 read from verse 1. It will be seen that the question was not over the kind of animal food one should eat at all. It was a lesson to the Jews that no ceremonial regulations would save men; the heart must be cleansed of God. But he who is the Lord's will seek to eat and drink to God's glory. 1 Cor. 10:31.