Why do Christians eat pork even though in your bible it says you are not allowed?

[blondfrog]

In Leviticus chapter 11 verse 7 it clearly states that eating pig is forbidden.

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So on paper the whole its an old testament meant for the Jews and priests would work. However this logic is completely disbanded and contradictory because Christians still accept it and read this verse at church or during bible study.

[Effably]

The easy answer is that Leviticus is a mix of rules for Jewish priests and then later rules for Israeli people. It is primarily seen as a ruleset for the priesthood, not all of it embraced by Christianity. Anyone having read Leviticus would know that.

The part you reference are all in the first half and are rules for priests, not ordinary people. While it might have been seen as proper to follow, it is not even addressed at your typical Christian.

It is also understood that some animals were framed as unclean due to influenza and alike and that unclean was an easier explanation. This is for example the case with Islam and pork, where we can trace a swine flu to the time of Muhammad.

Famous segments like Man should not lie with man, which is also from Leviticu, is also pointed at priests. Although that one technically, if you read Hebrew, actually says "A grown man should not sleep with a not grown man" and is basically Leviticus asking the Israelite priests to please stop sleeping with little boys. A rule the priesthood clearly struggles with even today.

[Flower7]

Why do you think being with boys seems to be so common for priests? I’ve never understood that.

[Effably]

I have no idea. You would think it would be little girls, not that that is any better. The double taboo of it? Historically perhaps simply due to nuns handling the young girls? Probably a very provocative but interesting research topic for a psychology degree there.

[Bricealan]

@Flower7 I have often wondered about that too, Flower.

[Bricealan]

@blondfrog You should get out more, maybe get a job at McDonalds, or maybe a grocery store. Can't imagine you indulge in this kind of nonsensical drivel. Meet a nice woman, get a hobby.

If I indulged in this kind of idiocy, I would be in an institution.

[blondfrog]

Dude I'm married and have a job. I work in IT. And I was just asking a question.. I'm Muslim lol 😆

[purplepoppy]

We're supposed to burn a dove everytime we have a period. Lobster and prawns are off the menu too. Christians aren't supposed to steal, rape, murder etc either.

The simple truth is most Christians don't even obey the serious stuff like "don't do evil shit" and "try not to be a twat". On judgment day that bacon sandwich kinda pales into insignificance.

[WhitneySnow]

Because Jesus did away with most of the Old Testament laws except for the Ten Commandments

[Dargil]

The Messiah granted a new Dispensation and the Levitical dietary restrictions no longer apply, although Seventh Day Adventists choose to honor them as an expression of submission. My small submission is why I spell His name G0d.

Mark 7. 14-16

Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.”

[Dargil]

Many posters defile themselves here.

[blondfrog]

So on paper the whole its an old testament meant for the Jews and priests would work. However this logic is completely disbanded and contradictory because Christians still accept it and read this verse at church or during bible study.

[Dargil]

I don't say that, and Jesus did not say that.

[BadApple69]

That’s Old Testament.
New Testament:

Mark 7:18-19: Jesus explains that nothing entering the body makes a person unclean; it goes to the stomach and is eliminated, so food doesn't defile the heart.

[strateguy632]

The same chapter said for israel not for everybody so just to study.

Verse 2

[blondfrog]

Well then they should be reading it to people at Church or during bible study. That's just confusing.

[Sevenpointfive]

that's one of the parts that the jews wrote. leviticus refers to levites/levantine people.

[Sevenpointfive]

my parents tried to raise me catholic. it didn't work. but it always rubbed me the wrong way that catholics and all christian sects use the same bible. how are you going to study the same book and be different? i know that people will say that so-and-so places more emphasis on these things making them different. it's the same goddamn book! you are the same!

[docster]

Acts chapter 10 did away with the food laws.