WHY try to explain? You are obviously bound by your own thinking and agenda. It would be a blessing if you were able to understand the Word of God instead.
Honestly and with all due respect this conversation is really nonsense. However, in the spirit of friendship and Christian love I will explain this one more time and then I am done with it.
What we are talking about comes from reading the Old Testament. The Law of God said that it was wrong for Jews under the Law of Moses to eat pork. In Leviticus 11, God gave the Israelites a list of animals that were permissible to eat, but the text specifically labels swine (pork) as unclean and forbidden (vs. 7).
Then throughout the Old Testament, the act of eating pork was viewed as an abomination to the Israelites—wrong and sinful.
You posted correctly for the Jews in Isaiah 66:17. The One primary reason for this prohibition in the Old Testament against eating the meat of unclean animals, including pork, was to protect the Israelites from diseases, infections, and bacteria that were more commonly carried in scavenger animals such as vultures, catfish, and pigs. That is especially why the Law said to not eat the BLOOD as it contained the things that would cause death when eaten and not cooked.
Now the question comes and it is what we are involved in is ............ if it was wrong for those under the Old Law of Moses, is it still wrong for those who are following God under the New Law of Christ?
The straightforward and simple answer to this question is a
“NO.” It is not wrong to eat pork. Or shell fish and the other kinds of animals that you have listed at one time or another. Now WHT then is that the case. Is it LOGIC as you have incorrectly said.
NO once again.
It is however understanding the contextual teaching that comes out of the Word of God in the New Testament.
I am of the opinion that I really should not have to go into this kind of depth for someone who is as well read as you are in the Bible. However, YOU asked for the explanation so................
when Jesus Christ died, He nailed the Old Law to the cross.
Colossians 2:14.......
"And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross."
Then in the book of Hebrews, the writer explains that Christ made the Law of Moses obsolete and replaced it with the New Covenant.
Hebrews 8:13..........
"In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away."
Paul then explained to Christians that the Old Law was cast out and replaced by Christ’s New Law.
Galatians 4:21-31...........
21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman. 23 But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise. 24 Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar. 25 Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia;[
a] she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. 26 But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. 27 For it is written,“Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more han those of the one who has a husband.” 28 Now you,[
b] brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise. 29 But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. 30 But what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.” 31 So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman."
As a result, the regulations about clean and unclean foods were jettisoned, along with rules for animal sacrifice, ritual washings, annual feast days, Sabbath observance, and a host of other ceremonial trappings.
As evidence that the food regulations were abolished, the book of Acts includes an account in which the apostle Peter saw a heavenly vision of unclean animals being lowered from heaven.
Acts 10:11-16................
"and saw the heavens opened and something like a great sheet descending, being let down by its four corners upon the earth. 12 In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air. 13
And there came a voice to him: “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.” 14 But Peter said, “By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.” 15 And the voice came to him again a second time, “
What God has made clean, do not call common.”
A voice from heaven said to Peter, “Rise, Peter, kill, and eat”. Peter responded that he did not eat unclean animals. The heavenly voice countered by saying, “What God has cleansed you must not call common”.
In the immediate context, the vision was designed for Peter to understand that God was arranging for the Gospel to be preached to the Gentiles. But the interchange also manifests the fact that the regulations for clean and unclean animals had been altered so that animals that once were unclean to the Jew were now fit to eat.
In a passage that has a direct application to the eating of pork, Paul wrote to Timothy in 1 Tim. 4:1-5............
"Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding
to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and
know the truth. For
every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving; for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer".
Under the New Law of Christ, it is no longer wrong to eat animals such as pigs or catfish, since such regulations have been removed. Those who want to be accepted by God no longer have to offer up physical animal sacrifices, since Christ offered Himself on the cross as the ultimate, permanent sacrifice for sins.
Hebrews 9:28............
"so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him."
Now then, that is about the best explanation that I can give you. If someone else can add to this....please do so that our brother can understand WHY it is now acceptable for us to eat pork or catfish or lobster. As for ME....I am done with his particular conversation as I said in the beginning that it is actually pure nonsense.
777....If you want to keep to the dietary laws of the Old Testament then YOU go right ahead and do so if it makes you feel righteous. Of course that completely destroys the words of Scripture in Ephesians 2:8-9 when Paul says...............
"For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast."
I find it disturbing that you are able to choose the Bible verses YOU want to follow and accept and how easily you reject those that do not fit your agenda.
However IMO it is not proper neither is it acceptable or necessary to condemn those who do not believe as you do about keeping the dietary laws of the Old Testament Jews.