The Only Clean Place
We have said that man is the unclean creature. And we have heard Peter told to call no person unclean. So which is it — are we unclean, or are we forbidden to say so?
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Never Only Animals
A sheet full of unclean animals comes down out of heaven, and Peter reads it as being about people, not pork. The New Testament keeps treating the unclean creatures as a kind of language — and Christ did too.
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The Measure Turned Around
We file the clean and unclean laws under “forbidden foods.” But open Leviticus, and most of the system isn’t about the menu — it’s about the body. Turn its own measure around, and it points somewhere we didn’t expect.
