Why is it okay for Christians to eat pork now?

Question

Pls only serious answers. I really want to know why it is okay now when the bible specifically said that the pig is not acceptable. (I miss bacon too, but that is not an answer)

Answer 1

Christians pick and choose what they want to believe. They claim that little book is the word of god, yet they refuse to believe in all of it.

Funny.....

Answer 2

The dietary laws of the Old Testament put pork and several other animals out of bounds. In the New Testament, the early church wanted to expect the non-Jewish Christian converts to do the same thing as non-Jewish Jewish converts--obey the old rules and circumcision was the primary issue, but it was just a symptom of taking the whole lawbook. In a big Jerusalem meeting, Acts 15, they discussed it. The conclusion was: "Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood" (vs 19-20).

If you were Jewish AND Christian, you might want to abstain for the sake of your Jewish heritage. But the Church had grown far, far beyond just Jewish believers. We non-Jews were never under the laws that you refer to. Those laws are not what saves us, what brings us to Christ and they recognized it. Christians can eat pork. As for those who don't eat meat, pork included, may I refer you to another passage, for it is a different issue with different source problem (as in the non-Jewish butchers in those days offered the meat for blessing by the local gods and some declined to eat meat as if that were participating in the worship of other deities): Romans 14 or 1 Corinthians 6 and 8.

Answer 3

It was the Jews under that Law that could not eat pork. Those under the blood of Christ are free from the Law. Check out Leviticus 11 to read about why they couldn't eat pork and other animals.
But we are not under the Law anymore... read Romans, so we are okay to eat pork. In fact, I had pork the last two nights in a row... yum!

Answer 4

boy do i love bacon especially Oscar Myer bacon hm mm.they say that when Christ came he changed the law when actually he said he didn't come to change the laws.they also say that in those days there was no refrigeration.that's crap,the laws of God clearly state that we are not to eat of the pig,or anything in the ocean that does not have both fins and scales, such as shrimps and clams,crabs,lobsters,they are all scavengers and clean the ocean not fit for the body that God inhabits.people will make scripture into their story,like his.tory..

Answer 5

If you check the Acts of the Apostles you can find out that the food question was a big deal for the first christians around. i think it was about politics so as many as possible could convert to christianity in these days without any care for special food detalis or odd rituals connected with 'em. Also remember that circumsion was skipped as well as the food laws (kosher).

Answer 6

But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them, saying, 5 I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me: 6 Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and
wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. 7 And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat. 8 But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth. 9 But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. 10 And this was done three times: and all were drawn up again into heaven.

Answer 7

My opinion on the matter is that whoever wrote that book of the bible knew that if you cooked pork incorrectly you can get sick and die (This is a theory of how Mozart died incidentally), so he put that clause in there to try and teach the uneducated masses not to do it. This is clearly not divinely inspired by God or else he would have just told them how to cook it correctly.

Answer 8

That is Old Testament Jewish dietary laws and really have nothing to do with Christianity. Read the New Testament; it basically teaches to say blessing over food to be consumed and not be so concerned with the 'old law.'

If your doctor has not prohibited you from eating pork for health reasons, then I would say blessing and enjoy it.

H

Answer 9

1 Corinthians 10
"25Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, 26for, "The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it." 27If some unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat whatever is put before you without raising questions of conscience. 28But if anyone says to you, "This has been offered in sacrifice," then do not eat it, both for the sake of the man who told you and for conscience' sake — 29the other man's conscience, I mean, not yours. For why should my freedom be judged by another's conscience? 30If I take part in the meal with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of something I thank God for? 31So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. "

Answer 10

Because the OT law was to avoid "unclean" things, and pork was on the list. But, God has made these foods clean now.

So there is consistency between the OT and NT.

Answer 11

He said to them, "Are even you likewise without understanding? Do you not realize that everything that goes into a person from outside cannot defile, since it enters not the heart but the stomach and passes out into the latrine?" (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

Mark 7:18-19