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ABSTRACT

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is known for their commitment and obedience in keeping the pentateuchal dietary laws irrespective of the ever dynamic world people live in. The Seventh-day Adventist Church sees the levitical dietary laws to be very important because not only careful exegesis and theological reasoning prove that these are God’s requirements and were not revoked but that when observed, they express respect for the holy creator. The teaching concerning clean and unclean meats has been a remarkably enduring element of Seventh-day Adventism. It is worthy to note that the Adventists attest to the fact that the major reasons why God gave the dietary laws to his people is to set them apart from other nations and for them to be holy unto him, as he is holy. It is an indisputable fact that there are foods one can eat and such food will corrupt and defile the person’s system. Holiness is essentially the theological basis of these dietary laws even though other theological explanations can be deciphered. In the same vein, obeying the dietary laws makes the Adventists to live longer and healthy and as a result, they have quality time to serve God here on earth. The quality of life that people live as it concerns their health and longevity depends on what they eat. Most unclean animals are transmitters of communicable diseases. Therefore the major focus of this work is to discuss the implications of the levitical dietary laws by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which includes holiness or set apartness, health benefits and strong moral discipline of the Adventists. Keeping the dietary laws therefore sanctifies and distinguishes the Adventists as God’s covenant people.