Is it Okay for Christians to Eat Pigs and Cows when the bible Say's eating hoofed animals is a sin?

Question

I sure would hate to give up my hamhocks and greens. cry

Answer 1

Jesus came to fulfill the Mosaic Law, so we are no longer under it. Remember, that in the time of Moses, animal sacrifices were a requirement for the forgiveness of sins. We no longer have to do that because of Jesus giving his life for our sins. We are also able to eat pork and be thankful for it. Consider what 1 Timothy 4:4 tells us--"For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it be received with thanksgiving"
Yes, bacon and ham can be eaten with a clear conscience

Answer 2

the Bible doesn't say hoofed animals are a sin. it says in leviticus that the unclean animals whose hoofs WEREN'T split and didn't chew the cud. pigs have split hoofs but don't chew the cud so they aren't clean according to levitical law. cows have split hoofs and chew the cud so they are clean. animals like camels whose hoofs are half-split aren't clean. the hoof has to be split all the way.
cows fit the requirements but pigs don't
i don't eat pork because i'm kinda freaked out about eating animals who don't sweat, all those toxins are inside of them, and they wallow in mud, eww
i don't eat a lot of beef because of the hormones and the method of death, it's so inhumane. why don't they just do it the levitical way, with a nice quick slit across the neck with a sharp blade. they'd die immediately, experiencing no pain. now to eat beef i have to soak it in a salt water solution to get the hormones out
there is kosher beef but it is hard to find. you will never ever find kosher pork however. it's up to you what you do

just a side note: Acts 10 (Peter's vision with the animals on the sheet) was not referring to food. read the whole chapter not just verse 10. it was dealing with a man, a Gentile, named Cornelius. As a Jew, Peter was not to mingle with Gentiles, who were unclean people. but Cornelius was a just man who loved the Jewish people and wanted to serve the true God. verse 28 says "And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean." Cornelius and his family and household were saved that day. he was one of the first gentiles to be saved.

Answer 3

Beef is kosher as long as it is slaughtered in a prescribed manner and prepared according to kosher standards.

http://www.aishdas.org/toratemet/en_pamphlet2.html "Torat Emet" (Law of Truth)

Leviticus 11:2-7

These are the creatures that you may eat from among all the land animals: any animal that has true hooves, with clefts through the hooves, and that chews the cud — such you may eay. The following, however, of those that either chew the cud or have true hooves, you shall not eat: the camel — although it chews the cud, it has no true hooves: it is unclean for you; the shafan — although it chews the cud, it has not true hooves: it is unclean for you; the arnevet — although it chews the cud, it has not true hooves: it is unclean for you; and the swine — although it has true hooves, with hooves cleft through, it does not chew the cud: it is unclean for you.

The pig has cloven hooves but does not chew cud.

Google search: kosher christian

http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/24518 "Ask MetaFilter" (Question asked: "Why don't Christians keep kosher?"

One respondent cites Matthew 15:11--"not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man, but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man."

Answer 4

we are free of persevering with the motions of the regulation, with the aid of fact Christ is the final touch of what the regulation symbolized. even with the undeniable fact that, we are to proceed with the regulation in spirit, and it would nicely be organic now that Christ is interior of us. 'Unclean' is the concentration of nutrition rules. 'Unclean' continues to be an argument for mankind. The OT rules have been like a seed. human beings, ability believers the fertile floor. And the plant that springs out of the seed is the NT. Now - sparkling and unclean is what comes from the coronary heart. Christ nevertheless needs us 'sparkling' yet we are living immediately with what the regulation symbolized ... religious reality. If a man or woman is vulnerable, and needs to pass trough the motions of the previous regulation, we are advised to enable that's. The regulation became into imparted on guy as a punishment for refusal to have faith. via Christ - we are free of that 'punishment'. we are to stay contained in the spirit now, no longer the actual. as a result - what's unclean is what comes out of your mouth, no longer what is going in it. there continues to be sparkling and unclean. That has no longer replaced.

Answer 5

I have wondered about that... how some laws of the old testaments are abolished by the "Grace of Christ" while others are still adhered to like glue.

Given that hoofed animals are edibvle now... then why are tithes and offerings still so heavilly impressed in church? That law was implement in the old testament, and withink the last few books even.

Where does grace start and where does grace stop? Who dictates what, where and whom?

Answer 6

A little information leads some people quite astray.

Christianity claims that Jesus fulfilled the ceremonial law of the Jews. The laws that Jesus fulfilled include the eating of such animals. These laws became irrelevant with the resurrection of Christ, and Christians, therefore, are not required to follow them.

Answer 7

The bible never says anything about not being allowed to eat beef. It is actually on the list of clean foods.

Answer 8

If it's such a sin, why were they put here in the first place? Why was Adam given dominion over all animals as companions and food? Surely cows and pigs weren't meant to be confidants.

Answer 9

Actually it says that eating an animal WITHOUT A CLOVEN HOOF a sin, or whatever. It's okay to eat beef (because they have a cloven hoof) but not horse which has a complete, single hoof.

Answer 10

Yes. That is an Old Testament command that was repreived when the new covenant (post-Jesus or New Testament) was created.

See passages where Peter sees the sheet come down from heaven.