James Recknor Leviticus 11:7-8 English Standard Version (ESV)
And the pig, because it parts the hoof and is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. 8 You shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.
Pork is forbidden in the Bible, so why do Christians eat pork? Is it a weakness of faith? Or ignore the orders of the Lord.
Acts 10:15And a voice spoke to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed you must not call common.”
This is an example of covenantial law in which God commanded a group of people to keep commandments in order to enter into a covenant with Him. It is not given to all people, but Israel.
Christians are not under the Law. We see that God removed this barrier in Acts Chaters 10 & 11.
Dear muslim we Christians are not and were never under the Levitical law which was given at Sinai to the children of Israel by Moses,for them to be a Holy People.
We Christians are under the new law which does not pertain to clean or unclean foods to make us Holy.
Jesus gave us the Holy Spirit to make us Holy and a special people unto God
We Christians are not under law but under grace…
Yummy porkchops ??
Romans 14:14 I know and am perfectly sure on the authority of the Lord Jesus that no food, in and of itself, is wrong to eat. But if someone believes it is wrong, then for that person it is wrong.
As a Torah-observant believer in Jesus, let me offer my take on this. Lol
Peters vision in Acts 10 is, IMO, the best proof that we should not eat pork or other unclean food, for several reasons. Here they are:
1). If Jesus had ever taught anyone that they could now eat any animal, they would have used it against him in his trial, but they could find no fault with him when it came to Law
2). Peter was Jesus’ righthand man and was with him during his entire 70-week ministry. He would have know what Jesus taught yet, years after Jesus’ ascension, Peter could still not imagine or consider eating anything unclean. It’s was foreign to him
3) Peter explains the vision twice to his apostle buddies, and the word food never came up even once
4) Peter understood that God was showing him that gentiles were not unclean. At the time, Jews were teaching and acting like being around gentiles made you unclean. God never made an unclean man. Animals had been classified as clean or unclean; men had never been
Ok, let the barrage begin. ?
These things are tutors, leading to Christ (Gal.3:24). What does it teach us? Is it only to abstain from a particular meat?
These lessons are allegories.
A cloven foot stands for a double-minded path/hypocrisy. (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Kings+18%3A21&version=AMPC)
Symbolic “dogs” and “swine” are those who eat anything, as regards spiritual food. If confronted with divine truth, they “tear to pieces”, those who present it to them (Matt.7:6). (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matt7%3A6&version=AMPC)
That sort was classified by the Jews, as the unclean Nations, or, as Gentiles. Up until Christ, Gentiles were outside the nation that God had cleansed for his own (Deut.14:2). (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deut.14%3A2&version=AMPC)
As mentioned by David above, confirmation for this theory is given, at Acts 10, where Peter’s vision of “unclean animals” are used as symbols, for the Gentiles. Peter confirms at verse 28; “God has shown and taught me by words that I should not call any human being common or unhallowed or [ceremonially] unclean.” That was God’s way of teaching Peter, that Christ cleanses from sin, both Jew and Gentile (Rom.1:16; Gal.3:26-29). (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Rom.1%3A16%3B+Gal.3%3A26-29&version=NIVUK)
We are also warned that when Christ returns, people that eat pigs and rats and such will be destroyed. Isa 66:17. These prophecies can’t be ignored. Offering a pig on the altar was enough to remove God from the building. Did he change his mind about pigs just because Jesus had died?
Yes David Jackson, we are not to eat the flesh of unclean beasts, in a symbolic sense, as already demonstrated.
I will assume that you respect the scriptures, and have read them above, and are going to read them below.
How do we symbolically, “eat the flesh” of pigs? Do you know what flesh stands for? (Gal.5:17-18; Rom.8:4-5; Jude1:23).
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Gal.5%3A17-18%3B+Rom.8%3A4-5%3B+Jude1%3A23&version=NIVUK
If we devour the corruption of others, we are made unclean.
How can that happen?
Often, those desiring to follow Christ, either fall prey to unclean/hypocritical spiritual leaders (cloven foot) who, from their sinful nature/flesh, feed the flock corrupt doctrine. Many followers are themselves corrupt, and they actively seek out such leaders, to “tickle their ears”.
These things can only be perceived, if we view things spiritually, and get the sense of their symbolic meaning. Those who view things literally and physically, cannot perceive the spiritual meaning…
1Cor.2: “9 However, as it is written:
‘What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived’ –
the things God has prepared for those who love him –
10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.”
*footnote from the Orthodox Study Bible*
Leviticus 11:2–4, 47 At least two issues relate to the animals: the nature of animals and eating only clean animals. The nature of all animals is good in itself because the Creator is good. He did not create anything evil in itself. This also applies to man, whose nature is good in itself. As Genesis 1:31 says, “Then God saw everything He made, and indeed, it was very good.” The Law giver (Christ) said that foods going into the stomach cannot defile a man; rather, the evil proceeding from his heart defiles him (Mark 7:15–23). He said this when the Law of Moses was still in effect. Why then did He declare through Moses that certain animals were clean and others were unclean, and only the clean ones were to be eaten? Whatever various answers may be given, one seems to stand out as especially important: the eating of clean animals forecasts the cleansing of both Jews and Gentiles in baptism to form them into one body, the Church. Peter’s vision in Acts 10:9–16 indicates the inclusion of Gentiles into the Church through baptism: “The earth, then, this is what the linen sheet denotes, and the wild animals in it are those among the Gentiles, and the command: ‘Kill and eat,’ denotes that Peter must go to them also; and the linen sheet being let down three times denotes baptism” (John Chrysostom 407 AD).
306 Antioch defiled the sanctuary and put flesh of swine on it, killed those who kept the Commandments, deceived many trough flattery and money. Changed the laws and times( time was marked from sunrise to sunset)
Probably because of Peters vision.
Also we’re not told to become Jewish when we follow Christ. Paul talks about this as well and gives a couple rules. Something about not strangling an animal and to not eat it with the blood still in it.
Something like that.
It wouldn’t be a bad thing to not eat pork but we aren’t bound by the law
Such statements reflect the failure to distinguish between the various laws God specifically gave to the nation of Israel, such as dietary, ceremonial and civil laws, and the moral law that applies to everyone – always.
This distinction is made clear in the “New Testament” in conveying that other than the moral law, which is completely fulfilled in just two: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength, and, Love your neighbor as yourself, all the non-moral “laws,” such as dietary, were to be understood as being descriptive rather than prescriptive.
And Jesus told the people that which goes in the mouth comes out of the body. But that which comes out of the mouth comes from the heart and that is what makes a man unclean.
Christians are not Jews. Read the bible.
Because Christians are no longer under such laws as these.
Christians are part of the other tribes ? specifically, Ephraim. (Christians though, since they are oblivious to the OT prophesies and scattering of Israel, are ignorant of this).
When Christianity began to spread into the Gentile people, many questions arose concerning the Mosaic Law. Gentiles were not subject to the Law. Many of them probably never heard of the Law.
One of the major concerns was over their diet. Since Gentiles were not following the Law, they ate pork and saw nothing wrong in it.
The Apostles decided that the eating of pork would not be forbidden for those people who already eat it. It should be a matter of conscience between each man and God.
Read the New Testament then you will understand why we are allowed to eat pork.p
Just before the verse forbidding pork,
4 ” The camel, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you.”
Isn’t it funny how the sheikhs and imams never told you not to eat camel too? ?
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