When someone quotes from one of the Books of the Law, is your knee-jerk reaction to jump down their throat accusing them of forcing fellow believers back under the law? That seems to be the case with some out there I found out this weekend. As Christians, we are free from the law. In Christ, we can read the Books of the Law and see God's plan of redemption given in types, rituals, and symbols that the Jewish people were to practice to the day of Christ's death and resurrection. Sprinkled through all of that, are guidelines that brought better hygiene to hospitals after world war 1. Guidelines that keep your dishes clean. Guidelines that brought us the concept of Spring Cleaning. There are guidelines for food management, medical practices, business dealings, etc.

Are you bound to keep them or lose your salvation? Heck no! The Apostle Paul spoke of those who thought such an erroneous way as judiazers and had lost their salvation. When we read the Books of the Law now, we don't read them as the rule books they were for the Jewish people. We read them to a) understand the Jewish rulebook and how that pointed to Christ, and what Christ said He fulfilled and completed on the Cross. b) to understand the different way of life that God called the Jewish people to that was separate from their nation neighbours and why, and in so doing learn many of the guidelines I mentioned in the previous paragraph above. c) There are many spiritual, social, physical, economic, nutritional truthful nuggets hidden in these pages that we can glean from without "going back under the law".

I have four more "food in Scripture" posts from the Torah and then these quotes move into the Action/Adventure books and on into the rest of the Bible. We'll see what other reactions I get as we continue to look at examples of food and meat in Scripture.