If eating shellfish was an abomination during old testament times then why isn't it now?

Question

I didn't recall jesus saying it was ok to eat shellfish.

Answer 1

pick and mix christianity. that's why all religions based on these silly superstitious writings from millenia ago are a waste of time and reserved for unthinking fools.

Answer 2

In the old testament days, eating shellfish could kill a person. We now know that shellfish can contain a poison. We still do not eat it when harvested during the summer months (during the months without an R in the name of the month.

Answer 3

So what? Jesus in that time probably only ate kosher food, and wouldn't even touch anything that was not kosher.
Times are different today my friend.
Most Jews, and all the Christians I know eat shellfish and pork.

Answer 4

nicely, the "previous Testaments" are frequently known because the "previous testomony." And God did not write it. Many adult men wrote it over a era of milennia. a number of those adult men writing it had little or no information of a lot of something. similar as you for instance, once you mean the former testomony says menstruation is an abomination. The previous testomony says that NO position. so that you word, you're interior the same classification because the authors of the former testomony. Be proud, and save in ideas, you're unique, a useless ringer for honestly anybody else on earth.

Answer 5

Jesus said, "I did not come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it".

This basically means that the whole time the Jews lived under the law it was to prove a point. There is no man who can live up to the perfect standard of God. The law was given to show the need for a savior.

Answer 6

The critical passages you need are:
1. Acts 15 - where they define the requirements for non-Jews to be Christians.

2. Matt 15/Mark7 - where Jesus declares that we are not defiled by what goes in, but by what comes out.

Answer 7

I thought the new testament was basically sapposto cancel out the ways of the old testament....

I mean.. this is quite the silly question.. especially if you think of all that went on during the old testament that isn't acceptable any longer.....

Answer 8

The reason why Christians don’t have to abide by the strictures of rabbinical law concerning the sole consumption of only kosher and clean foods can best be summed up by stating that when Jesus came into this world to sacrifice on behalf of our sins, he made us new creatures who are no longer bound by the purity standards adhered to by orthodox Jews. Direct scriptural support can be found for this in many places in the New Testament. Mishmash, one of the respondents to your question, cited one such supporting text in Matthew 15.

However, the most clear exposition concerning our freedom from the dietary standards found in the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible), is in Acts 11: 1 –9 :

“And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him, Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them. But Peter rehearsed [the matter] from the beginning, and expounded [it] by order unto them, saying, 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: 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. And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat. But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth. But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, [that] call not thou common.”

Ultimately Jesus message and sacrifice supplanted trivial matters of dietary prohibition and ritual cleanliness, with a higher call to be moral and spiritually pure. That is why Christians, ultimately, should concern themselves with morality over other shallow displays of piety.

Answer 9

Really? Peter and Paul had a big disagreement over these Jewish dietary laws. It's well-recorded in Scripture.

The outcome is that everything is good to eat, except blood.

Answer 10

It is if you are Jewish. In the Bible, Matthew 15, Jesus says, 17"Don't you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? 18But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man 'unclean.' 19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. 20These are what make a man 'unclean'; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him 'unclean.' " Mark 7 says 14Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, "Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. 15Nothing outside a man can make him 'unclean' by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him 'unclean.' "

Answer 11

He also said don't eat from the swine, because its a dirty animal, but everybody eats pork, Well, not the Jews or the Muslims.