The Lie That Every Food Is Now Clean

By Pierre Lidji · August 7, 2026

One of the most common teachings today is that under the renewed covenant, YAHUAH no longer distinguishes between clean and unclean animals.

People often say:
“Yahusha declared all foods clean.”
“Kapa’s vision abolished the dietary laws.”
“Sha’al taught you can eat anything.”
But is that actually what Scripture says?

No. The first mistake is assuming that everything living is considered food. Scripture never defines swine, shellfish, rats, or other unclean creatures as food for YAHUAH’s covenant people. Before the Turah was even given at Sinai, YAHUAH already distinguished between clean and unclean animals.

“Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens… and of beasts that are not clean by two.”— Mashah, Barashyth 7:2

This was centuries before the covenant at Stnay. The distinction was already known.
Later, YAHUAH commanded Yashar’al:

“These are the beasts which ye shall eat.”
— Mashah, Wayaqra 11:2

He then listed the animals that could be eaten and those that were not to be eaten.
YAHUAH did not simply say, “Eat whatever you desire.” He defined what food was for His people. Nowhere does Scripture say that pigs, shellfish, vultures, or other unclean creatures were later reclassified as clean food. Many point to Marqus 7. But what was the discussion about? It was not about pork. It was not about shellfish. It was about eating with unwashed hands according to the tradition of the elders. The Pharisees asked why Yahusha’s disciples ate bread with unwashed hands. Yahusha answered by exposing their traditions. The entire discussion concerns ritual handwashing—not changing YAHUAH’s dietary instructions. Others point to Kapa’s vision in Ma’ashaym 10. But Kapa himself explained the meaning of the vision.

“Aluah hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.”
— Kapa, Ma’ashaym 10:28

Kapa did not say:
“Aluah has shown me that pigs are now clean.”

He explained that the vision concerned people, specifically the acceptance of the nations into the covenant without calling them unclean. The vision interpreted itself. To ignore Kapa’s own explanation is to replace Scripture with assumption. Others appeal to Sha’al.

Yet Sha’al wrote:
“What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Aluah forbid.”— Sha’al, Rumaym 7:7

And again:
“Wherefore the law is set-apart, and the commandment set-apart, and just, and good.”— Sha’al, Rumaym 7:12

A man who calls the commandments set-apart, righteous, and good cannot be honestly used to argue that YAHUAH’s dietary instructions became meaningless. When Sha’al discusses food, he often addresses meat sacrificed to idols, disputes over eating, fasting, or judging one another—not declaring unclean animals to be clean. Scripture also teaches that false teachers would arise. One of their characteristics is that they speak lies while appearing religious. YAHUAH never changes His standard of holiness because human culture changes. If YAHUAH called something unclean, where is the verse in which He later says: “I now declare these animals clean.”

There is no such statement. Instead, YAHUAH repeatedly calls His people to distinguish between the set-apart and the common.

Questions This Doctrine Cannot Answer

If every animal is now food, why did YAHUAH distinguish between clean and unclean before Synay?
Why did Wayaqra 11 define which animals could be eaten?
Why was Marqus 7 about handwashing instead of pork?
Why did Kapa explain that his vision referred to people rather than animals?
Why did Sha’al call the law set-apart, righteous, and good?
Where does Yahusha ever say, “You may now eat every unclean animal”?
Where does Kapa ever say, “My vision changed the dietary laws”?
Where does YAHUAH ever declare pigs, shellfish, and other unclean creatures to be clean food?

Key Points

The distinction between clean and unclean existed before Synay. YAHUAH defined what food was for His covenant people. Marqus 7 concerns handwashing traditions, not unclean animals. Kapa interpreted his own vision as referring to people. Sha’al never called the Turah evil. No passage plainly declares unclean animals to have become clean food.

Final Verdict

The doctrine that every animal is now clean food depends upon taking verses out of their context. Marqus 7 is about human traditions.
Ma’ashaym 10 is about accepting people from the nations. Sha’al defended the holiness of the Turah. None of these passages abolish YAHUAH’s dietary instructions. The issue is not whether people can reinterpret Scripture. The issue is whether Scripture actually says what they claim. It does not. Amayn.