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Originally Posted by davem
Of course, one might ask why any animal that God made would be by its nature 'unclean'? Why did God make the poor thing 'unclean' & if He did so it seems a bit vindictive.
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I don't know. My bet is that the pigs in Israel probably didn't mind not getting eaten.
But seriously, I think this is best understood in the context of God being a few thousand years ahead of the modern medical establishment, protecting his chosen people from foods that would likely pose them with greater health risks. And the object lesson of clean and unclean no doubt reinforced God's moral law.
There is much, much more to respond to, but bed is calling.