Just for the record
MISAPPLCATION OF SCRIPTURE ALERT!!
1.
Romans 14:3, 14, 20 says: "Let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth." "There is nothing unclean of itself." "All things indeed are pure."
Verses 3 through 6 are a who eat certain things versus those who do not.
The passage never says that either one is right, but tells us not to pass judgment on the other.
Let God be the Judge (verses 4,10-12).
Verses 14 and 20 is all about to foods that were first offered to idols and were ceremonially unclean--it is not about the clean and unclean meats of Leviticus chapter 11. (See 1 Cor 8:1, 4, 10, 13).
The point is that no food is "unclean" just because it has first been offered to idols, because an idol is "nothing in the world." 1 Corinthians 8:4.
However, if a person's conscience bothers him for eating this food, he should leave it alone. Or even if it offends someone, he should do the same.
2.
Did Jesus declare all animals clean in Peter's vision, as recorded in Acts 10?
Acts 10:13
The subject of this vision is not animals, but people. The purpose of this vision was to show Perer that the Gentiles were not unclean, as the Jews believed.
God told Cornelius, a Gentile, to send men to visit Peter. Peter would have refused to see them if God had not given him this vision, because Jewish law forbade it(verse 28).
When the men did arrive, Peter welcomed them because of the vision, explaining that normally he wouldnt have, but "God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean." Verse 28.
In the next chapter (Acts 11), the church members were upset with Peter for speaking with these Gentiles. Peter told them the story of his vision and its meaning. And "When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life." Acts 11:18
3.
1 Timothy 4:4 says, "Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused."
This passage (verse 3) is talking about meats "which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving". These are n reference to the clean meats listed in Leviticus chapter 11 and Deuteronomy chapter 14. God never designed unclean meats to be received with thanksgiving.
Verse 4 makes it clear that all creatures of God are good and not to be refused, if they are among those created to "be received with thanksgiving" (the clean animals).
Verse 5 tells why these foods are acceptable: it is they are "sanctified" BY GOD'S WORD, which says they are clean, and by a "prayer" of blessing, which is said before the meal.
But the Bible says that God will destroy people who try to "sanctify themselves" while eating unclean foods (Isaiah 66:17).
