God expands the human diet: every moving thing that lives shall be food for humanity, in addition to the green plants already given. Before the flood, the diet described in Genesis 1:29 was vegetarian; now meat is explicitly included. This expansion is a consequence of the changed world — both the world's increased harshness and the new relational dynamic between humans and animals introduced in verse 2. Acts 10:13–15 records God telling Peter to kill and eat, and the vision's declaration that nothing God has made clean should be called unclean points back to this post-flood broadening of human freedom. 1 Timothy 4:4–5 states that everything created by God is good and not to be rejected if received with thanksgiving. The application is not dietary but theological: the progressive unfolding of what God permits and commands is real, and the New Testament reaches back to these early post-flood permissions to ground the freedom believers have in Christ. Receive the food you eat today with the thanksgiving this verse implicitly invites.

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