Eating the lamb at passover is a ritual in rememberance of the exodus. The Hebrews had a long journey ahead of them and so Jah had them eat meat, which sustains ones for a longer duration (as it takes much longer to digest). They were told to stuff themselves, as they were on the run and would not get another chance to eat for sometime. Eating flesh was not a common practise, not like it is in Babylon. Yes there are clean meats to eat, if one must, but it is prefered that ones eat herbs and vegetation.
Some like to quote Paul (Romans 14:2) For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
Where does Jah say to eat UNCLEAN meats? NOWHERE! Yes he had them eat lamb, but it was CLEAN and was killed with the least amount of pain to the animal as was the custom when meat had to be eaten.
Ones should take into account that Paul was trying to convert Romans to his own version of "Christianity". The Romans ate all kinds of UNCLEAN meats. Infact they ate things such as stuffed doormouse, oysters, baby pig, boars head, lobster, ostrich. Romans also ate plates full of peacock tongues and one very complicated meal was stuffing a chicken inside a duck, the duck in a goose, the goose in a pig and the pig in a cow and cooking it all together!
These were the people who Paul was trying to convert to his own religion. I say his own religion because Paul did not teach what Christ taught, Paul never knew Christ while He walked the earth. Paul challenged those that did know Yeshua (read Acts). The result was we now have Paul's Christianity rather than Yeshua's Christianity being taught within the Churches.
Paul was a Polytrickster, changing the message of Yeshua to whatever group of people he was trying to convert: (1 Corithians 9:20-23) 20And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; 21To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. 22To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. 23And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.
What did Yeshua teach? (Matthew 5:17) Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
So who do you believe? Jah and Yeshua? Or Paul?
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