The Biblical Roots Podcast
This is a Bible-based, Christ-focused theology and apologetics podcast hosted by Professor R. L. Solberg. We talk theology and apologetics, test the claims of questionable teachers, and offer a range of Bible teachings, including verse-by-verse Bible studies.
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Clean & Unclean (Part 1 of 2) - Testing Monte Judah
This is part 1 of the most comprehensive Biblical examination we’ve ever done on this channel on why followers of Jesus are not required to eat biblically clean or kosher. We're going to dive deep into the Torah and the Gospels and more, tracing the thread of God’s commands about food. And we’re going to use a video by a Hebrew Roots teacher named Monte Judah as the platform from which we’ll launch various excursions into the text of Scripture.
Here in part one, we hear Mr. Judah lay out his case in his own words, examine the significance of blood and how that relates to the clean and unclean categories of food in the Torah, and look at why the food laws were given in the first place. Lastly, we spend a lot of time unpacking Mark 7 and the phrase at the end of verse 19: “thus he declared all foods clean.”
Links from Episode
Clean & Unclean by Monte Judah
How we got our English translations of the Bible by R. L. Solberg
Codex Sinaiticus Manuscript Online
Chapters
00:00 Open: A comprehensive study on the food laws
01:35 A warning about Monte Judah
06:49 The first principle of clean and unclean
11:00 The sacredness of blood
13:09 Blood and the kosher food laws
15:32 The blood of Christ
17:28 John 6 and the blood
19:41 A sacred connection: flesh, blood, life
23:17 Israel and the bread and wine
25:12 Why the food laws were given
30:47 The food laws as a social barrier
31:56 The biblical link between food and people
33:10 Ritual cleanness
35:04 Mark 7 - Thus He declared all foods clean
40:22 Mark 7 - The textual evidence
52:24 Mark 7 - The theological evidence
59:09 Wrap it up, professor.
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