1) Predatory animals ate the blood of other animals, and scavengers ate dead animals. Because the people couldnt eat blood or animals they found dead, they couldnt eat animals that did these things either.
2) Some forbidden animals had bad associations in the Israelite culture just as bats, snakes, and spiders do for some people today. Some may have been used in pagan religious practices. To the Israelites, the unclean animals represented si or unhealthy habits.
3) Perhaps some restrictions were given to Israel just to remind them continually that they were a different and seperate people commited to God. Although we no longer must follow these laws about food (Act 10), we can still learn from them the lesson that holiness is to be carried into all parts of life.
We cant restrict holiness only to the spiritual side, we must be holy in the everyday practical part of life as well. Health practices, finances, use of leisure--all provide oppurtunities to put holy living into daily living.
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