Kosher Foods and Unclean foods

[DD2007]

Why does the Jewish faith consider certain foods (like pork )unclean and non servable?

Why did Christians decide to change Jewish diets?

 

[PaulDupre]

Why does the Jewish faith consider certain foods (like pork )unclean and non servable?

Because Moses commanded it in the OT.

Deuteronomy 14:8
And you may not eat the pig. It has split hooves but does not chew the cud, so it is ceremonially unclean for you. You may not eat the meat of these animals or even touch their carcasses.

Why did Christians decide to change Jewish diets?

Because Jesus declared all foods to be clean.

Mark 7:14-23
14After He called the crowd to Him again, He began saying to them, "Listen to Me, all of you, and understand:

15there is nothing outside the man which can defile him if it goes into him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man.

16If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."

17When he had left the crowd and entered the house, His disciples questioned Him about the parable.

18And He said to them, "Are you so lacking in understanding also? Do you not understand that whatever goes into the man from outside cannot defile him,

19because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and is eliminated?" (Thus He declared all foods clean.)

20And He was saying, "That which proceeds out of the man, that is what defiles the man.

21"For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,

22deeds of coveting and wickedness, as well as deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride and foolishness.

23"All these evil things proceed from within and defile the man."

Hope this helps.
Paul

 

[ralphinal]

Don;t forget that in Acts, Peter had a dream where God told him that if he created it, it is not unclean. Also in Acts. the Apostles decided in the first Church Council that non Jewish Christians (Gentile Converts) did not have to live under the kosher food laws.