Leviticus 11:46-47
This is the law about beast and bird and
every living creature that moves through the waters and every creature that
swarms on the ground, 47 to make a distinction between the unclean and the
clean and between the living creature that may be eaten and the living creature
that may not be eaten.
The Navy isn't particularly concerned with
one's ability to fold t-shirts, except for the fact that they are very
specifically concerned with one's ability to follow orders precisely as it
concerns the folding of one's t-shirts. These lessons learned in boot camp and
training are not as much about the folding of shirts as it is about the ability
to follow a command precisely right away, without excuse and without delay. In
the heat of battle, commands need to be followed exactly. God is less concerned
with which animals we eat and which we don't than He is with our ability to
listen to His word, devote it to memory and execute it precisely. The Law in
this sense is a tutor. The goal wasn't dietary, it was doxological. In other
words, the point of it was not simply to monitor our eating habits as much as
it was about forming the habit of glorifying God by doing what He says simply
because He said it.
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