Music man Jesus took on human flesh therfore he had human body that functioned just like ours did He even talked about this very subject
(Mat 15:11 CLV) Not that which is entering into the mouth is contaminating a man, but that which is going out of the mouth, this is contaminating a man."
(Mat 15:12 CLV) Then, approaching, the disciples said to Him, "Are you aware that the Pharisees, at hearing the word, are snared?"
(Mat 15:13 CLV) Now He, answering, said, "Every plant which is not planted by My heavenly Father shall be uprooted.
(Mat 15:14 CLV) Leave them! Blind guides are they of the blind! Now if the blind should be guiding the blind, both shall be falling into a pit."
(Mat 15:15 CLV) Now, answering, Peter said to Him, "Decipher for us the parable."
(You see even this particular life event was a parable)
(Mat 15:16 CLV) Yet He said, "Are you also unintelligent at this point?
I love this last line to his disciples and todays readers
(Mat 15:17 CLV) Not as yet are you apprehending that everything that is going into the mouth is becoming the contents of the bowels, and is being evacuated into the latrine?
Your mouth and intestines are in direct contact with the environment and are outside your body (just like skin is)
(Mat 15:18 CLV) Now those things going out of the mouth (vocolazition), out of the heart are coming, and those things are contaminating a man.
(Mat 15:19 CLV) For out of the heart are coming wicked reasonings, murders, adulteries, prostitutions, thefts, false testimonies, calumnies.
(Mat 15:20 CLV) These are those which are contaminating a man. Now to be eating with unwashed hands is not contaminating a man."
Now as a physician v 15:20 always bothered me.. not washing your hands can lead to all kinds of food poisoning etc....
but we have to remember that God is in control and we need to think spiritually ...our real bread/meat is spiritual and is from God's Hands which are pure,
In regard to the germ world we live in I now realize that God is in total control and those that get sick from these sort of things are part of his plan too. It use to really puzzle me when people in the course of their day did all kinds of things (baby's eating things off the ground, circumscion tattoo butchering milking animals etc) then and even sometimes now .....that we today would considered them "dirty" pocedures ...
I was amazed that many people (although a few did) that these people did not become badly infected....when scientifically we know that they should have. Make me ponder that God must have somehow either inactivated the germs or increased the immune system of the person etc.
Beloved
Every thing in the physical is recycled only man is embarressed by it
Wow! Thank you for bringing this old topic back. It caused me to find a second witness, and here it is.
Mar 7:1 And gathering to Him are the Pharisees and some of the scribes coming from Jerusalem.
Mar 7:2 And perceiving some of His disciples, that with contaminated (that is, unwashed) hands they eat bread"
Mar 7:3 (for the Pharisees and all the Jews, if ever they should not be washing the hands with the fist, are not eating, holding the tradition of the elders;"
Mar 7:4 and from the market, except they should be sprinkled, they are not eating; and many other things are there which they accepted to hold, the baptizing of cups and ewers and copper vessels and of couches),
Mar 7:5 the Pharisees also, and the scribes are inquiring of Him, "Wherefore are not your disciples walking according to the tradition of the elders, but with unwashed hands are eating bread?
Mar 7:6 Yet He, answering, said to them that "Ideally prophesies Isaiah concerning you hypocrites, as it is written, that This people with their lips is honoring Me, Yet their heart is away at a distance from Me."
Mar 7:7 Yet in vain are they revering Me, teaching for teachings the directions of men."
Mar 7:8 For, leaving the precept of God, you are holding the tradition of men of the baptism of ewers and cups. And many such like things you are doing."
Mar 7:9 And He said to them, "Ideally are you repudiating the precept of God, that you should be keeping your tradition."
Mar 7:10 For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, He who is saying aught that is evil of father or mother, let him decease in death."
Mar 7:11 Yet you are saying, 'If a man should be saying to father or mother, "A corban (which is an approach present) is whatsoever you may be benefitted by me,'"
Mar 7:12 no longer are you letting him do anything for his father or his mother,
Mar 7:13 invalidating the word of God by your tradition which you give over. And many such like things you are doing."
Mar 7:14 And calling the throng to Him again, He said to them, "Hear Me, all, and understand."
Mar 7:15 Nothing is there outside of a man, going into him, which can contaminate him, but those things going out of a man are what is contaminating the man."
Mar 7:16 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!"
Mar 7:17 And when He entered into the house from the throng, His disciples inquired of Him concerning the parable."
Mar 7:18 And He is saying to them, "Are you, also, thus unintelligent? Not yet are you apprehending that everything from the outside, that is going into a man, can not contaminate him,
Mar 7:19 for it is not going into his heart, but into the bowels, and is going out into the latrine - cleansing all foods?
Mar 7:20 Yet He said that "That which is going out of a man, that is contaminating the man."
Mar 7:21 For from inside, out of the heart of men, are going out evil reasonings, prostitutions, thefts, murders,
Mar 7:22 adulteries, greed, wickedness, guile, wantonness, a wicked eye, calumny, pride, imprudence."
Mar 7:23 All these wicked inside things are going out; and those are contaminating the man."
I tried looking for this in the KJV but could not find it, but it seems it was a little easier to find in the CLV. Thanks, must study this a little more now.
Peace and Love, G.Driggs