Why can Catholics eat pork and shellfish?

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šŸ¤” not trolling I would just like a simple answer to this if you can provide me one. Thank you.

Catholics are under the moral law when it comes to the Old Testament? Yes or no? So the shellfish and pork would be under dietary laws?
 
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Catholics are under the moral law when it comes to the Old Testament
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Some things yes, some things no.
The ritual/dietary stuff, no.
The other, morally based things are actually more strict since Jesus (ie no more divorce, no harboring anger)
 
Thank you for your response. What about polygamy? Does that fall under the moral ? why is that( if it is )condemned by the church?šŸ¤”šŸ™‚
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Catholics are under the moral law when it comes to the Old Testament? Yes or no? So the shellfish and pork would be under dietary laws?
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James the Just, who presided at the Council of Jerusalem, ruled that Gentile Christians were to be almost wholly exempt from the Jewish dietary laws. The only restrictions applying to Gentile Christians were to be these:

It is my judgment, therefore, that we ought to stop troubling the Gentiles who turn to God, but tell them by letter to avoid pollution from idols, unlawful marriage, the meat of strangled animals, and blood (Acts 15:19-20, Nabre),

where ā€œpollution from idolsā€ is generally understood to mean eating the meat of an animal that has been sacrificed to an idol.

 
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Re: polygamy, Jesus specifically condemned divorce and remarriage as adultery, and taught that marriage was between one man and one woman, becoming one flesh. And that this had always been Godā€™s plan, which He knew because He was God and was there. (Ditto on knowing why Moses had permitted divorce.)

It was a serious question, in early Christian circles, as to whether it was intrinsically immoral for a widow or widower to remarry at all, and only young kids were considered a good reason. Third marriages, after having a spouse die twice, were seen as ridiculously sex-hungry.

So if you are looking for Christianity to teach polygamyā€¦ Noopers.
 
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No. Catholics can eat pork and shellfish.

But why would anyone want to eat a pig? They are smart animals, and it would be kind of hard to slaughter them. I know the slaughter houses do that. If I had to do it, I wouldnā€™t.

Shellfish are also OK to eat, but itā€™s like eating ā€œbugsā€ of the ocean. They are arthropods and related to scorpions, centipedes, and other many legged animals. Even though all arthropods donā€™t live in the ocean, many are land dwellers but have the same type of body. I told someone once that I did not like to eat anything that has a face.
 
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šŸ¤” not trolling I would just like a simple answer to this if you can provide me one. Thank you.

Catholics are under the moral law when it comes to the Old Testament? Yes or no? So the shellfish and pork would be under dietary laws?
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Dietary laws and laws on ritual cleanliness arenā€™t part of the moral law. The closest equivalent would be how the Catholic Church might prescribe a day of fasting or a day of abstinence. Catholics are obligated by charity to obey the Church, as they would obey God.

Moral law relates to anything that is intrinsically evil. Eating pork or shellfish isnā€™t intrinsically evil, whereas fornication or murder is intrinsically evil. When God set Adam to the task of caring for the Garden, he gave him every animal to eat, and every plant to eat. Jesus has restored mankind to that state.
 
Matthew 15:11
10Jesus called the crowd to Him and said, ā€œListen and understand11 A man is not defiled by what enters his mouth, but by what comes out of it.ā€
 
Romans 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not food and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

1 Timothy 4: 1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will renounce the faith by paying attention to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, 2 through the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared with a hot iron. 3 They forbid marriage and demand abstinence from foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. 4 For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, provided it is received with thanksgiving; 5 for it is sanctified by Godā€™s word and by prayer.

Acts 11: 8 But I replied, ā€˜By no means, Lord; for nothing profane or unclean has ever entered my mouth.ā€™ 9 But a second time the voice answered from heaven, ā€˜What God has made clean, you must not call profane.ā€™ 10 This happened three times; then everything was pulled up again to heaven.
 
These were a part of the ceremonial law, of which is no longer binding for Christians. The Abrahamic covenant has been extended outwards to now include both Jews and Gentiles, perfected by the blood of Christ our High Priest in heaven. Moral laws, such as those contained in the 10 Commandments, are eternal and forever binding because they are based in eternal law.
 
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