This argument is getting more bizarre all the time.
Folks eat rattlesnakes and other poisonous things all the time. The Japanese eat fugu.
You must have something better than this.
What part of God’s Word (“every moving thing”) are you having a hard time with? Don’t you believe God?
Besides, the cultic food law had nothing to do with health. The evidence here is that the stranger in Israel was not bound by the same food laws as the native born. Cf. Lev. 17:10 where the only restriction for the stranger is the matter of blood we saw in Gen. 9:4.
“You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the alien who is within your gates, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God.” (Deut 14:21)
If the food laws were health oriented, to give something inherently unhealthy to your alien neighbor would be a sin.
I agree it's getting bizarre. You seem to be under the impression that humans can eat anything on the planet and not suffer any consequences. Diseased animals. Fine. Great. Nightshade. Yummy. Belladonna. Chow down! No restrictions I guess.
What part of God’s Word (“every moving thing”) are you having a hard time with? Don’t you believe God?
Gen 9:3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Gen 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Genesis 9:3 refers back to 1:29. Can man eat ANY plant? No and it's stupid to think we can. People die because of it. Or is it more likely that the Lord instructed them on what plants were good for food and what was not? And then wiht that reality it only makes sense that God designated animals as clean and unclean so that Noah would know what was good to eat and what was not. He TAUGHT Noah.
“You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the alien who is within your gates, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God.” (Deut 14:21) If the food laws were health oriented, to give something inherently unhealthy to your alien neighbor would be a sin.
I never said they were exclusively health orientated. If you care to read back you'll see that there's various reasons for the food laws.