Why is it that christians justify eating pork?

Question

Eating pork was introduced from Paul(Saul)

Answer 1

they justify it because they do it.think about it.no person ,jew,christian,muslim likes to be told the truth if it exposes their wrongdoing.thats why we say the truth is bitter.so they will come up with excuses they cant backup.they say that Jesus said the law is not to change till heaven and earth pass.yet they change the law to suite them in these times.excuses like they had no refridgerators!and its ok now cause time went by.but whos authority?.did God say that? maybe Jesus said it? where?when?..they have no answers.and they wont admit their folly when it would mean another victory for the truth of islam.

Answer 2

Mar 7:1 The Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus.
Mar 7:2 They noticed that some of his disciples were eating with unclean hands, that is, without washing them.
Mar 7:3 (For the Pharisees and indeed all the Jewish people don't eat unless they wash their hands properly, following the tradition of their elders.
Mar 7:4 They don't eat anything from the marketplace unless they dip it in water. They also observe many other traditions, such as the washing of cups, jars, brass pots, and dinner tables.)
Mar 7:5 So the Pharisees and the scribes asked Jesus, "Why don't your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders? Instead, they eat with unclean hands."
Mar 7:6 He told them, "Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites. As it is written, 'These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
Mar 7:7 Their worship of me is empty, because they teach human rules as doctrines.'
Mar 7:8 You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition."
Mar 7:9 Then he said to them, "You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to keep your own tradition!
Mar 7:10 For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and 'Whoever curses his father or mother must certainly be put to death.'
Mar 7:11 But you say, 'If anyone tells his father or mother, "Whatever support you might have received from me is Corban,"' (that is, an offering to God)
Mar 7:12 you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother.
Mar 7:13 You are destroying the word of God through your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many other things like that."
Mar 7:14 Then he called to the crowd again and said to them, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand!
Mar 7:15 Nothing that goes into a person from the outside can make him unclean. It is what comes out of a person that makes a person unclean.
Mar 7:16 If anyone has ears to hear, let him listen!"
Mar 7:17 When he had left the crowd and gone home, his disciples began asking him about the parable.
Mar 7:18 He said to them, "Are you so ignorant? Don't you know that nothing that goes into a person from the outside can make him unclean?
Mar 7:19 For it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and is expelled as waste." (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

This is where most christians get the idea of all foods are clean

Answer 3

Paul didnt introduce the eating of Pork.

Yet, even if he had, why do you reject the teachings of an apostle who was handpicked by God himself?

Jesus introduced the concept of what you eat not being the problem, its what you put in your heart that is the true problem. For a better explanation of this, you can read the gospel of Mark. Paul had nothing to do with this one as he was not yet an apostle.

Answer 4

Once people are saved, they can do just about anything that the rest of the "unsaved" do ... they just excuse it by saying they are saved by grace. Getting saved is like having a blank check for just about anything. Do you think Jim & Tammy Faye (and other TV evangelists) feel any sense of sin about what they do to scam people? Of course not. So why would a pork chop suddenly matter?

Answer 5

In the old testament, Jews were bound by rules of all kinds, including not eating unclean foods. If you follow the rules, you get into heaven. However, in the New Testament, Jesus came and through his death on the cross, people are no longer bound by the law and trying to keep all of them (impossible), but are forgiven through his grace. So, all is permissible, except that which goes against God (sin). Check out I Corinthians 10:23.

Answer 6

I've often wondered this too. The Old Testament forbids eating pork. How did that change?

Answer 7

Christians have been relieved of all personal responsibility. The "devil" made them do it and God forgives them.

Not eating pork had nothing to do with cleanliness. God forbade many things for His chosen people. Pork was never forbidden to surrounding nations.

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Answer 8

Jesus said that it is not what goes into a person's mouth that defiles him, it is what comes out of a person's mouth that defiles him (see Matthew 15:11-20). "For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, slander, etc." The ceremonial law of the Old Testament was given to the Jews as a shadow of what was to come. The coming of the Messiah nullified the Jewish ceremonial law but the moral law still applies.

Answer 9

Incorrect Peter did. He has a vision three times telling him it was acceptable to eat all kinds of food. This set a pattern for how the law could be changed.

Answer 10

the reasons jewish didn't eat it was because it was considered unclean and in those days it was...there was a terrible problem with sanitation and cleanliness concerning livestock especially pigs as they lay in their own excrement which of course could make people sick...now days they are much cleaner and given drugs to prevent parasites etc.