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Polak
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So it appears that most Christians do eat pork, although some time ago I was flicking through TV channels and watched a televangelist for a few minutes. I don’t usually make a habit of watching these non-Catholic ministers, but sometimes I am curious to see what things they say and how people in these stadiums react to it.
Anyway, there was this minister who was quoting from the Bible [as they often do] and he started talking about eating pork. He said ‘do you know that some Christians eat pork?’ Then he referred to people saying that Jesus changed the rule about pork and basically stated that he didn’t say anything about us being able to eat pork.
It made me look in to it further, as I was wondering, if perhaps he was right that nothing had changed since God said pork was unclean in the Old Testament. There is indeed no passage in the New Testament where Jesus says ‘pork is no clean, you may eat it.’
In the Old Testament, we have this quote from Deuteronomy.
“The pig is also unclean, although it has a split hoof, it does not chew the cud. You are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses.”
There is however a passage in the New Testament, that I know many Christians who eat pork, point to.
"There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”
and
"Are you without understanding?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, then out of the body.”
This is supposed to be proof that Jesus said it is okay to eat any meat - that no meat [or food in general?] is ‘unclean.’
I have however seen counter argument to this, from people who say, God does not suddenly change his rules just because he sent his son to us and they also say, these quotes are taken out of context, as the whole passage is referring to clean and unclean in terms of the washing of hands and whether you can or cannot eat food with dirty hands.
In all honesty, I don’t know what to think. I was never taught by family or the Catholic Church that eating pork is wrong, but these non-Catholic Christians who say it is wrong and making me wonder about it,
Anyway, there was this minister who was quoting from the Bible [as they often do] and he started talking about eating pork. He said ‘do you know that some Christians eat pork?’ Then he referred to people saying that Jesus changed the rule about pork and basically stated that he didn’t say anything about us being able to eat pork.
It made me look in to it further, as I was wondering, if perhaps he was right that nothing had changed since God said pork was unclean in the Old Testament. There is indeed no passage in the New Testament where Jesus says ‘pork is no clean, you may eat it.’
In the Old Testament, we have this quote from Deuteronomy.
“The pig is also unclean, although it has a split hoof, it does not chew the cud. You are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses.”
There is however a passage in the New Testament, that I know many Christians who eat pork, point to.
"There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”
and
"Are you without understanding?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, then out of the body.”
This is supposed to be proof that Jesus said it is okay to eat any meat - that no meat [or food in general?] is ‘unclean.’
I have however seen counter argument to this, from people who say, God does not suddenly change his rules just because he sent his son to us and they also say, these quotes are taken out of context, as the whole passage is referring to clean and unclean in terms of the washing of hands and whether you can or cannot eat food with dirty hands.
In all honesty, I don’t know what to think. I was never taught by family or the Catholic Church that eating pork is wrong, but these non-Catholic Christians who say it is wrong and making me wonder about it,
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