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olpo25 said:
I know for a fact that God had to have had a spiritual intent by having listed the creatures He did, yet with the repeated theme running throughout the OT, <span style="background-color:yellow">despite how much Jesus' Own Word about this makes 100% sense once we get to the NT</span>, . . .

Is there is any account whereby God said if a person ate this or that unclean animal they were "Officially defiled" in the OT, I would appreciate getting that passage <span style="background-color:yellow">because it would stand in contradiction to Jesus' message</span> concerning such in the Gospels despite the fact Christ's message would make 100% sense over the other, if you know what I mean.

Furthermore, and finally, there is the issue of Daniel 1:8, <span style="background-color:yellow">the mentality of which would stand in near total contradiction to Paul's teachings</span> despite the heart's message/common sense viewpoint regarding such (In favor of Paul, clearly).
Olpo,

Robin has done an adequate job of dealing with the "defilement" issue, IMHO, but there is another issue, perhaps far more worthy of focus which I would like to address. That issue is illustrated by the highlighted portions of your post above. That issue is that of "contradiction" within Scripture. IF <---- you sincerely believe that there can be or even are, in fact, contradictions in the Bible, this would of necessity deny the historic Church's doctrine of verbal plenary inspiration; i.e., the Bible is completely inerrant and infallible in all matters of faith (doctrine) and life. Should one come to the conclusion that there is a contradiction in God's inspired written Word, then the problem is with the reader and not the text itself; a lack of comprehension. (cf. 2Pet 3:15, 16; Heb 5:11-14)

So, my question is . . . do you believe that there are real contradictions in the Bible?

In His grace,

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