does any body else find this funny?

Question

We all know that Jews and Muslims cant eat pig,
in the old testament, it says something about pigs being filthy and not to eat them.
well anyways i was saying this to a Christian friend of mine, and she said that they dont take this literally, because they go by the new testament...
and when i asked why, she said that the old testament was written before "Jesus-God" came down to earth, where he realised that it was too hard for Christians not to eat pig....
Isnt this undermining gods greatness?? like he didnt know that it was "too hard" not to eat pig UNTILL he became human?? And how hard could it be in the first place???

Answer 1

People's interpretation of the scriptures is and has always been depending on their Ego.
If the scriptures doesn't fit to your ideas of a nice life - well then we just 'bend' them abit or re-write them.
That's how it has been going on for millenia.

It just makes it all more fun doesn't it??

Answer 2

ACK!
I will try to sort this out. The Old Testament is GOD's Law and the history of his people. It clearly proclaims the coming of the Messiah and has endless fulfilled prophecy. It is very valid in all of its laws and all of its instructions. Jesus fulfilled the law and we would still be abstaining from pork if Peter was not instructed to tell us we can eat whatever we want.

Act 10:11 And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:
Act 10:12 Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
Act 10:13 And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.
Act 10:14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
Act 10:15 And the voice [spake] unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, [that] call not thou common.

Answer 3

Yes, that does seem like an unusual explanation. As a person with a personal relationship with God but also one that does not rely on the interpretation of a book to decide whether or not something is right, I would suspect that the idea of not eating pigs may have had more to do with the fact that pork in those days was thought to be dirty because it carried a lot of diseases...especially when not refrigerated and when not properly cooked. God always wants us to do what is good for us but I do not know if this pig thing is actually his will, or the will of those who developed the religious rules of the day.

Answer 4

If I'm not mistaken, you are saying that your friend is stating that Jews and Muslims don't take the restriction against eating pork literally because they go by the New Testament. But that's not true. Jews don't believe in the New Testament and go strictly by the Torah's old dietary laws. Muslims don't eat it because Maimonides, the Jewish court physician to Muslim sultan Saladin in the twelfth century, and arguably the greatest of Jewish philosophers and legal codifiers, agreed with other Muslims and Jews of his day by declaring that pork was an "unclean" meat because of pigs' dirty habits; when pigs cannot find water, which is often the case in the Middle East, they have to bathe in mud or their own feces. Maimonides therefore asserted that pork was an unhealthy and unwholesome meat to consume. He was the first to justify the taboo on secular rather than religious reasons.

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Answer 5

eating too much pig (or should i say pork?) is really bad for everyones health... that is the reason why God forbidden the Jews to eat them during the OT and up to this time...,
but why do Christians eat them? it is because like what Jesus says "Don't you know that whatever goes into a person from the outside can't make him unclean?".

Answer 6

That's your friend's personal interpretation. If memory serves, it all goes back to a story that when someone rebuked Jesus because some of His disciples were eating with unwashed hands, He replied that people were defiled by what came out of their mouths (i.e., words) rather than what went in. From that, most Christians concluded that the Jewish dietary laws had been abrogated with the New Covenant.

I'll leave it to someone else to cite the source. Christians so love to do that.

Answer 7

Pork , after Jesus was crucified the laws were changed and everything after that was ok to eat..On the other hand pork is really not very good for you but if you eat it in moderation it wont kill you....Pork takes an entirely different enzyme to break it down then any other meat we eat and the fat content is actually high in pork ...Other than that a nice slab of ribs would be just fine !

Answer 8

Slight, but common confusion here. Yashua bin Yusef specifically said ( reportedly ) that he wasn't going to change one jot ( read letter ) of the 'Law of Moses' until he brought about the 'New Kingdom', which, the last time I looked, he still hadn't. It was Paul, the Spouter of Lies, who hijacked the Jerusalem Church of Yashua and his brother Y'acov ( James the Just ) and opened it to the Goyyim, i.e. Gentiles, i.e. anyone who isn't a Jew. And it was Paul who dispensed with the need to follow the 'Law of Moses', something that would most certainly have been an abomination to Yashua..

Thus anyone who claims to be a follower of either Judaism, Islam or Yashua bin Yusef ( the person transmogrified into 'Jesus Christ', should not be eating any pork, or meat products having their origin in the Sus genus of the Suidae family of mammals.

And that includes BACON !!!

Answer 9

That prohibition is entirely owing to the depredations of hot weather. Pig meat goes off quickly . The weather in the Middle East is hot to very hot and therefore in the interests of public health, it is not advisable to deal in pig meat.
Both tribes realised this and incorporated a ban within their religious law.

Answer 10

Hmm. Good question. Is it too hard for Christians to eat the family dog or cat, too?

The curious thing is how they totally ignore the OT Scripture forbidding eating pigs and shelfish, and wearing mixed fibers, etc., yet pick out the allegedly anti-homosexual verses right next to it and claim they are still in effect.

Answer 11

Most Protestants eat Pig and Shell fish because SCIENCE has made it safer.

If people still died from it, no Christian would eat it!