As a christian is it ok to eat pork? i found it wasnt in the old testament!?

Question

only true christians answer please.

Answer 1

Matthew 15:10-11, 16-18 (CEV)

Jesus called the crowd together and said, "Pay attention and try to understand what I mean. The food that you put into your mouth doesn't make you unclean and unfit to worship God. The bad words that come out of your mouth are what make you unclean."

Jesus then said:
Don't any of you know what I am talking about by now? Don't you know that the food you put into your mouth goes into your stomach and then out of your body? But the words that come out of your mouth come from your heart. And they are what make you unfit to worship God.

Answer 2

Yes it is o.k. because the dietary laws in the Old Testament were meant for people to live a long time because there was nothing but death for them at that time but, when Jesus came on the scene and suffered and died for us and did away with death then everything was made clean for us because death wasn't any big thing anyway. Pork in those days and more and more often in this day and age had/has germs and bacteria and parasites. This is one reason why people should say grace to ward off these food borne illnesses. The opening up of the dietary restrictions in the Old Testament also was a signal to minister to the Gentiles, as they were considered unclean before then too.

Answer 3

Yes, it's okay to eat pork for Christians. The dietary laws of the Old Testament do not apply to Christians.

It is a common misconception that Christians are expected to live within the laws given to Moses in the first few books of the Old Testament. This includes everything from keeping ritual sacrifices, keeping a kosher diet, and sowing a garden in a certain way to wearing blue tassels on our clothes, abstaining from cross-dressing and homosexuality, and so on and so on. This was all well and good for the Israelites, but it was given to them to make their nation prosperous. Because God called them to be his chosen race (for reasons beyond the scope of this node) He provided them with a lengthy guideline on how to grow and stay strong. The Old Testament includes many things: an instruction book on how to build a nation in the ancient world, a foreshadowing of the coming of Christ, some very beautiful poetry, and a remarkable history; but it can never be taken as a binding set of rules for all people and all eternity.

Answer 4

All things are permissable, but not everything is beneficial. 1 Cor 6:12, 10:23

In other words you "can" eat pork, but that does not mean that it's the best thing for you to do. You "can" also kill someone, but that does not mean that it's wise. The point of free will and the grace of God is that we truly can do any and everything that we want to do, this does not mean that we will not be judged for it later.
Is not eating pork a requirement for salvation? No, but does that mean that I do it anyway? No. Jesus did not eat pork, and we are told to live as He lived (if we claim to be His 1 John 2:6). In the new testament when Peter is given the vision of "unclean" things and the Lord tells Him not to call anything unclean that He has made clean (Acts 10:14), He is talking about Gentiles, not food. Do not let these people who take this verse out of context mislead you into thinking that He was talking about food here. The lord was simply telly Peter that he wanted Him to go and share the gospel w/ a race of people that were once considered unclean. If you read that section in its entirety you will see that it is clearly not talking about pork and shellfish being ok to eat.
Pork and shellfish do serve a purpose though, the Lord created them to be garbage disposals, pork eat the trash of the earth and shellfish the trash of the sea. In turn, if we eat them, we ingest all of trash and diseases that they consumed in order to protect us, thus defeating their true purpose on earth.

Answer 5

Old testament law also said we couldn't eat shellfish. This is what Paul and Peter argued about, along with circumcism, regarding converting non-jews to christianity. The Levitican laws in the old testament were for the Jews, since we were not jews, it was decided they didn't apply to us, which is a good thing cause I really love crab legs.

Actually, a lot of those old eating laws made a lot of sense. Shellfish are bottom feeders, and many people are alergic to shellfish. Pork, if not cooked properly, is deadly, and those weren't the most hygenic of times. All in all, for that time period, those were really good rules.

Answer 6

Lol exactly what i was thinking 2weeks ago when i was reading my bible and i saw that in the old testament. Then I realized, that MOST of the laws of the old testament apply only to Jewish people. For example, Jesus said in Matthew 5:38-39, "You have heard that the law of Moses says, 'If an eye is injured, injure the eye of the person who did it. If a tooth gets knocked out, knock out the tooth of the person who did it,' But I say, dont resist an evil person! If you are slapped on the right cheek, turn the other, too. If you are ordered to court and your shirt is taken from you, give your coat, too." That is just one example of how the laws of the old testament differ from the laws of the New testament.

Answer 7

We are no longer under the laws of the Old Testament because of the Blood of Jesus Christ.
Romans 6:14 says's For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace
The following are some scriptures you can look up in regards to this
Acts10 :12-15
Mathew 26:28
Hebrews 8:7-13
Galatians 5 1-14
Romans 7:6

Answer 8

In the past "biblical times" people didn't eat pork because of disease and bacteria. The easiest way to get people to stop eating this meat that was making people sick was to say, God Said not to. This is just another example of how religion has been used to control the masses. However, as time went on, eating pork became safe. Some religions still do not believe in eating pork because it was never changed in their religion.

Answer 9

God told Peter was I have cleansed call it not common or unclean, There is several verses I can use, But Turn to Colossians 2:16-17 Let no man therefore judge you in meat(PORK) or in drink or in respect of an holyday or of the new moon or of the sabbath days. Which is a shadow of tings to come------- Yes it is oK to eat Pork.

Answer 10

And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you. --Leviticus 11:7

But just because you are Christian doesn't mean you can ignore the Old Testament:

"Do not think that I [Jesus] have come to abolish the Law (the Old
Testament) or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke or a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law (the Old Testament) until everything is accomplished. (Matthew 5:17-18)"

Answer 11

It's a cloven hooved animal that doesn't eat it's own cud. Therefore it is forbidden.

And as for only wanting christians to answer, there are plenty of people that have expertise on the bible that are not christian.

Leviticus 23:14,21,31
It shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations.

Deuteronomy 4:8-9
What nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? ... teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons.

Deuteronomy 7:9
Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations.

1 Chronicles 16:15
Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand generations ... an everlasting covenant.