Can Christians eat pork?

Question

If Jesus never came to abolish the laws of Moses then why do so many Christians today eat pork??


Leviticus
Chapter 11
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1 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
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"Speak to the Israelites and tell them: Of all land animals these are the ones you may eat:
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any animal that has hoofs you may eat, provided it is cloven-footed and chews the cud.
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But you shall not eat any of the following that only chew the cud or only have hoofs: the camel, which indeed chews the cud, but does not have hoofs and is therefore unclean for you;
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2 the rock badger, which indeed chews the cud, but does not have hoofs and is therefore unclean for you;
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the hare, which indeed chews the cud, but does not have hoofs and is therefore unclean for you; and the pig,
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which does indeed have hoofs and is cloven-footed, but does not chew the cud and is therefore unclean for you.
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Their flesh you shall not eat, and their dead bodies you shall not touch; they are unclean for you.

Deuteronomy Chapter 14

And the swine, because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean

Answer 1

You are laboring under the false impression that Christians actually go by what the Bible says. Most of them don't even read it.

Answer 2

Leviticus chapter 11 lists the dietary restrictions God gave to the nation of Israel. The dietary rules were never intended to apply to anyone other than Israel. Jesus later declares all foods clean (Mark 7:19). God gave the apostle Peter a vision in which He declares concerning formerly unclean animals, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean” (Acts 10:15). When Jesus died on the cross, He put an end to the Old Testament law (Romans 10:4; Galatians 3:24-26; Ephesians 2:15). This includes the laws regarding clean and unclean foods.

Answer 3

Jesus didn't come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it. These laws were given to the Jews, and I'm not certain that they don't still apply.
In the book of Acts, chapter 10, Peter saw in a vision a blanket filled with all manner of unclean animals lowered before him. A voice told him to eat. Peter said no, for no unclean thing had ever passed his lips. In the end, God told Him not to call unclean what God had cleansed.
Christians were never commanded not to eat pork or other unclean animals, only things offered to idols or bloody or strangled.

Answer 4

Acts 10
9-- The next day, as they went on their journey and drew near the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray, about the six hour.
10-- Then he became very hungry and wanted to eat; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance
11-- and saw heaven opened and an object like a great sheet bound at the four corners, descending to him and let down to the earth.
12-- In it were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild beast, creeping things, and birds of the air.
13-- And a voice came to him, "Rise, Peter; kill and eat."
14-- But Peter said, "Not so, Lord! For I have never eaten anything common or unclean."
15-- And a voice spoke to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed you must not call common."

Now what say ye about what the Bible says?

Answer 5

Romans--Chapter 14 verse 14:
As one who is in the Lord Jesus, I am fully convinced that no food is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.

In Acts 10:10-15, Peter has a vision where he is told to kill and eat. When he objects about some of the food being unclean he is told God has pronounced the food clean. (This is paraphrased you might want to read it yourself)

I guess we Christians do read the Bible, and are following the New Testament when we eat pork.

Answer 6

The pope said that they could (well he is the catholic god )

The eating of pork, by the christians started by a papal decree in the late 12th century.
This decree was written into the bible as the coversation between the angel and Peter (the unclean meat now being clean)
It was introduced during the inquisition to make it easy to identify the christians from the jews and the muslims.
Jews and muslims had no right to life in the Holy Roman Empire and were hidiously killed when they were identified.
True christian tolerrance at work...!!

Answer 7

Pigs are no longer grimy animals. Pigs are animals that are many times stored in grimy situations. Wild boar is not any dirtier than livestock or goats. you're incorrect approximately Hindus and Buddhists: Hindus do no longer consume cows, yet consume different meat (in the event that they might arise with the money for it). Buddhists consume meat. Jews had a prohibition approximately eating purple meat, which became into observed into Islam too. interior the previous they might have been acceptable - there are various illnesses that could bypass from pigs to people, alongside with tapeworm. that would not shop on with any further. cutting-side farming has broken the cycle the place human waste (sh*t) finally ends up interior the pigs' nutrition.

Answer 8

The abolishment of the food laws in Leviticus was one of many misinterpretations that the Christians made from Jesus's teachings. Jesus will straighten out all this confusion He caused the first time He was here when He once again returns to Earth.

Answer 9

With Jesus, he said that he did NOT come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it.

Matthew 5:17 (New International Version)

17"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

Believers are not Under such restrictions as this.

(And BTW: I LOVE pork!)

Answer 10

They aren't suppose to but they justify the eating of pork by saying in so many words that it was an Old Testament edict and that they believe more in the New Testament.