Is Ash Wednesday biblical? That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's

edition of Core Christianity. Hi, this is Bill Meyer along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the

radio program where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day.

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us your question at Questions at Core Christianity.com. First up today, here's a voicemail

from one of our listeners named Jamie. My question is, I was wondering about the diet. It shows

in genesis of the things that we are to eat.

And then again, in Leviticus, about the things that we are to eat in the law,

everybody eats whatever they want, like pork, sausage,

and they say that this has all been changed, that God said eat whatever you want. So I was just

wondering if we could get some clarification on what the diet should be for us to be following

Jesus and just the law. That's all. Thank you. Yeah, Jamie, a really good question. So those laws that you find, the cleanliness laws related to food and what you eat in places like Leviticus or part of the ceremonial law, which Jesus Christ fulfilled.

We're not under the types and shadows of the law, the ceremonies of the people of God that related to the Old Testament,

the old covenant.

We're in the new covenant now through Christ and his work.

And so those laws in particular have been abrogated.

They've been fulfilled.

They're no longer binding upon us as believers today.

And that was a very big conflict in the early church as

Gentiles were coming to faith in Christ and joining together with a predominantly Jewish community

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