Leviticus 11:41 states that every creeping thing that "creeps on the earth" shall be an "abomination" and that it is to not be eaten. Again, I'm not sure what God was trying to convey here about it being an abomination. Didn't God create the creeping thing and then now He's saying they're bad?
Verse 42 states that these creeping things apply to whatever crawls on its belly, whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet among all creeping things that creep on the earth and that they shouldn't be eaten because they are an abomination. This verse appears to pretty much be a copy of the last verse. The first animal this verse describes is whatever crawls on its belly. It appears to be the snake. I recall from the story of Adam and Eve in Genesis, the serpent ended up losing its legs for deceiving Eve and then Adam practically choosing to hang around with her and eating the fruit to fall in the Garden of Eden. Well, that sucked. I guess Eve was perfectly matched for Adam, and I guess Adam wanted in on what Eve had too, so I think it's a stupid thing to blame the woman for a man's fall.
This whole context of these creepy things that God even created, and how it's supposed to be an abomination is really hard to understand for me. It just feels contradictory, but it doesn't make sense to reject the Bible because of these weird passages though.
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