Christians eating ham: If Jesus died to bridge the gap between man and God; how would ham enter into it?

Question

When you are talking about rectifying the bridge between man and God, broken since Eden, you are talking about redemption and justice, not sandwiches. How did food enter the equation. Christ fed the multitudes with bread and fish but never once said anything about ham.
No, I am serious. Look at the great works of man: The Magna
Carta, the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States. All have to do with human freedom and dignity and never once, to my knowledge is ham mentioned. I eat ham, and have nothing against it. I just don't think there was any specific 'go-ahead' on the ham thing.

Answer 1

There is no specific go ahead.

Answer 2

Forget the ham. Let's talk fish. Case in point: Back in the day when the decree came down from the powers that be in the Catholic Church that Catholics should not eat "meat" on Fridays, the obvious alternative was fish. Since many church-going folk were fishermen, and tithing was a practice most followed (giving 10% of all you earned to the church)--the more money the fishermen made, the more they would tithe, and the more money that ended up in the church funds. God had nothing to do with this rule--yet for centuries, people believed it was a "sin" to disobey. Some good came out of this, however...in my little corner of the world you can always find a fabulous fish fry every Friday night!! (Upstate New York)
I hope that answers your question!!

Answer 3

You obviously do not own the Jesus cook book and travel guide (by Phill Mymanhole) The most popular sandwich ever the all famous BLT use to be called , in biblical times, The (JLB)Jesus loves bacon, there are also stone tablets that have been found in Jerusalem that tell the story of the day after Jesus turned water in to wine, well the fallowing day he made mayonnaise hence the ham salad was born all holy and creamy , and as far as the "magna carta" was that not Jimmy Carters Drunk retarded sister?

Answer 4

Mat 6:25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?


Mat 15:17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?


Mat 15:18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
Mat 15:19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:


Rom 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

1Cr 8:8 But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.



Col 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath [days]:

Answer 5

ACTS 11:1-10...

Now the apostles and the brethren who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. And when Peter came up to Jerusalem, those who were circumcised took issue with him, saying, "You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them."
But Peter began speaking and proceeded to explain to them in orderly sequence, saying, "I was in the city of Joppa praying; and in a trance I saw a vision, an object coming down like a great sheet lowered by four corners from the sky; and it came right down to me, and when I had fixed my gaze on it and was observing it I saw the four-footed animals of the earth and the wild beasts and the crawling creatures and the birds of the air. "I also heard a voice saying to me, 'Get up, Peter; kill and eat.' "But I said, 'By no means, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered my mouth.' "But a voice from heaven answered a second time, 'What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy.' "This happened three times, and everything was drawn back up into the sky.

Answer 6

There is no such word as "ham" during the early period as well as the period of Jesus Christ. Ham came only this early stage of life in this world and invented by some good people who maybe good in cooking.

Answer 7

I think it is similar to the "fish on Fridays" thing: the fish market was suffering and supply was much more than demand, so to help out the market the church ordered fish only on Fridays.

Similarly, perhaps pigs weren't all that common? Or the cloven hoof thing might have something to do with it.

Answer 8

the ham thing is part of the 618 old testament commandments found in the levitical law as a blood bought born again christian you are not bound by the o.t. law you can eat what ever you want to bring on the ham <((((><

Answer 9

Actually, there is a specific go ahead. Look at Acts of the Apostles 10:9 and following.

Answer 10

They LOVE to search for verses in the Bible that tell them how its ok NOT to follow the rest of the Bible...like Mr. Acts 10:9 here.