Why can't we eat Pork and be a Christian?

Question

Can we eat Pork or Not?

Unclean food
Some say Christians shouldn’t eat Pork or other things the Jews were forbidden to eat in the old covenant.

Jesus said:
Mark 7:18-20 "Are you so dull?" he asked. "Don’t you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him ‘unclean’? 19 For it doesn’t go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body." (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods "clean.")

20 He went on: "What comes out of a man is what makes him ‘unclean.’ 21 For from within, out of men’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, 22 greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23 All these evils come from inside and make a man ‘unclean.’"

Paul said:
Romans 14:1-23 Welcome those who are weak in faith, but not for the purpose of quarreling over opinions. 2 Some believe in eating anything, while the weak eat only vegetables.

Oh I eat Pork, I am just wondering Why other's think you can't.

I also remembered the Jews and the O.T. so I get now what they are talking about.

Answer 1

Yes you can eat pork and be Christian

Answer 2

IT IS WRITTEN:

Romans 3:21-24 NIV
But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

Romans 8:1-2 NIV
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.

Romans 2:28-29 NIV
A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical. No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God.
This verse paul writes as a reference to the jewish law does not mean anything, you can't be saved through the law anymore becuase Jesus is the covenant.

Galatians 3:1-14 NIV
You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by believing what you heard? Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh? Have you experienced so much in vain—if it really was in vain? So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard? So also Abraham “believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” Understand, then, that those who have faith are children of Abraham. Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.” So those who rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith. For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.” Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because “the righteous will live by faith.” The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, it says, “The person who does these things will live by them.” Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.” He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.

JUST GOTTA READ THE BIBLE

Answer 3

You can eat pork and be a Christian. I eat it all the time and I am a Christian. The laws about food were in the old testement....the old covenant. We live under the new covenant. When those types of laws were set it was a different world. It was actually dangerous to eat pork because it was unclean in a literal sense. It is not that way anymore. Things are different in today's world and we can be a Christian and eat pork. So go ahead and eat some bacon if you want. ~Dawn

Answer 4

Modern Christians have ignored the prohibitions. Pigs this millenium isn't like the pigs in Biblical times. They were considered dirty because they eat anything on sight and more to their dislikes, pigs then destroy their crops and they really produce piglets so rapidly and always seen on dirty habitats. People of the Bible were used to eat animals that find nutritions on leaves, fruits and grasses. Like cows, sheeps, rams and goats and they also have use for their milks unlike the pigs that does not give out any except to destroy their plants and really devour every edible thing they see including human and other animal waste and carcasses. So, they are unclean and unsafe during those times until man today has learned how to farm them.

Answer 5

You can eat anything. Pork is hard to preserve in modern times. Imagine preserving pork in the desert with temperatures over 120 degrees farenheiht. That becomes problematic. See a prophet is basically someone with "divine" knowledge, you need to understand that people were ignorant in those times. The only people with any real knowledge were Kings and their servants. Most prophets serviced kings and nobleman. To save their people from disease they would forbid certain foods that were unclean in the sense that they were bound to spoil.

Answer 6

Sounds like you answered your own question. Someone is feeding you a load of sausage if they say you cannot. This same person will pick and choose what they want to quote. Witnesses will say that you cannot have a blood transfusion because of the old Testament proviso. But then the women are preachers and are strictly prohibited from being such according to Joshua. They also wear earrings which is prohibited in 2 Timothy.

Just another load of nonsense from someone who has not read the whole thing but only remembers what some half-baked preacher said last week.

Answer 7

Why do you have to have someone tell you it is ok to eat something? Are you six--eating crayons and toadstools?
If you don't believe something, don't do it.
If a religion you like says you aren't supposed to do something--you can still do it or not. You always have a choice.
Look at "christians" who don't drink, but live in sin or masturbate. How can you have a priest who molests kids or is a drunk or fat? These are all against their religion. They do it anyway. Some do it BECAUSE it is naughty.
Think of how many "christians" you know who are divorced, or who work or shop, mow grass on Saturday. There are thousands of little "laws" in the bible that christians don't bother to pay attention to.
They only pay attention to the ones someone ELSE is doing!
You want to eat pork, go ahead. You think it is icky, or that you are feeling particularly Jewish/Islamic, don't.
I hardly ever eat it, because it is so bad for the body--fatty, very salty,and easy to cook/store improperly. Not for RELIGIOUS reasons, but for the good health of my body--which I need just a while longer, so I can think of more good answers for Yahoo!.
Buddha says there are 3 portals: Your body (like where you go, your genitals, etc.) your mouth (what you eat and say and smoke) your mind (what you think or dwell on) Watch these to keep them as pure as you can for good karma.
It makes sense to keep yourself clean--doesn't it? Not because Buddha said so, but because it still makes sense for today.
Karma just means what you sow, so shall you (or somone dear to you) shall reap. Makes sense, huh? Sound familiar?
It amazes me that someone needs to tell you what to eat.

Answer 8

You can eat pork and be a Christian. The only thing you need to be a Christian is to believe that Christ died for you woke from the dead. The rest is just samatics. You do want to get to know him better as your relationship grows, and you have to discover for yourself (not what your told) what your other convictions too.

I don't think eating pork makes you or makes you not a Christian.

Answer 9

I don't know where you guys get this stuff from, I'm a christian, I eat pork, what does food have to do with religion??

Answer 10

I see people saying they are clean because they don't eat pork, but yet they go around murdering people. That's not unclean in the eyes of their demongod Allah?

Spiritual cleanliness comes from being washed, because we are all otherwise dirty. Those who are washed by the Blood of the Lamb are forever acceptible. Those who are not never are.

Answer 11

all those beautiful words the Christ said are true.the laws of eating are to protect our bodies from being polluted. the animals that we are forbidden to eat are unclean because they are scavengers and clean the earth and the seas for the benefit of keeping the earth balanced for man.these things we choose to eat just may be why we have so many cancers and other toxic illness's that are plaguing our kids.autism etc.i am not saying these are the reasons but they could be.