Why do many eat pork on Passover/Easter

[wayfarersoul1978]

When you think about Christianity is Jewish faith and early followers and founders were Jews. I just think it funny how ham is popular option on such Jewish holy day. I know Jesús said in Matthew it not what you eat that make you unclean, but how act and behave. But, it did say Jesús stop being kosher. Now Peter was eating kosher and God/Jesús Send peter straight in version. Yet it seem Paul acted like a Jew and stay in the Jewish communities he travel. What do other think ?

 

[ewq1938]

Pork is the new Lamb

 

[Paidiske]

I think it might help you to read Acts 15, and see how the earliest church was guided not to bind Jewish law on Christian believers.

 

[dougangel]

When you think about Christianity is Jewish faith and early followers and founders were Jews. I just think it funny how ham is popular option on such Jewish holy day. I know Jesús said in Matthew it not what you eat that make you unclean, but how act and behave. But, it did say Jesús stop being kosher. Now Peter was eating kosher and God/Jesús Send peter straight in version. Yet it seem Paul acted like a Jew and stay in the Jewish communities he travel. What do other think ?

Christ fulfilled that holy day for Christians when he fulfilled the law of Moses.
He became the Passover lamb on the cross. The only tradition Christ left us is breaking the bread and wine. As Christians you can do what you like.

 

[Roseonathorn]

Lamb is probably cuter and really how do You explain to Your kids, now children let´s eat this cute little lamb that You played with all summer. When they ask what kind of meat it is, some kids do. That would only get an Aaaaouuuuhhh I don´t want to eat anything, You are so mean. That is what You get for ethical sheep raising. Some do not like the taste of it. Some say the farming of lamb is unethical in certain countries so they do not eat lamb of that reason. If You do not care about ethical raising only costs, pig is cheaper than lamb.

 

[Saint Nod]

Australians eat shrimps over Easter. Really it appears to be a matter of personal taste and nothing to do with Passover

 

[Roseonathorn]

If we were served pork I would probably pass over... I don´t like pork. Shrimps sounds great.

 

[Saint Nod]

If we were served pork I would probably pass over... I don´t like pork. Shrimps sounds great.

Haha, very sharp! I like shrimps too... also not kosher by the way!

 

[FireDragon76]

I don't think it's as strange as in some traditions where they eat lamb as the normal thing for Easter. I guess growing up in a family with midwestern, squeamish sensibilities, lamb wasn't something you ate. It's like saying "I eat babies!"

 

[Ignatius the Kiwi]

So Saint Mark in giving us Jesus words commentates thus:

For it doesn't go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body." (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.) Mark 7 19.

I trust Mark and for that matter I trust Paul and the rest of the Christian tradition which does not require of anyone that they submit to the Torah's food laws. If someone chooses not eat pork or bacon because their conscience won't allow them to (I went through that when I was unsure what scripture was saying) then don't eat it.

 

[miamited]

When you think about Christianity is Jewish faith and early followers and founders were Jews. I just think it funny how ham is popular option on such Jewish holy day. I know Jesús said in Matthew it not what you eat that make you unclean, but how act and behave. But, it did say Jesús stop being kosher. Now Peter was eating kosher and God/Jesús Send peter straight in version. Yet it seem Paul acted like a Jew and stay in the Jewish communities he travel. What do other think ?

Hi wayfarersoul,

Well, first off, the celebration of Easter by christians is not a 'Jewish holy day'. Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah and you won't find many Jewish synagogues even acknowledging the risen Lord. Now, Messianic Jews do, but they are not the majority of Jewish believers. Secondly, Paul did not stay in the Jewish communities when he traveled. Paul's testimony is that when he visited a city he first went to the Jews of that community, but there is no further reference than that. He went to them to preach the gospel of God's salvation offered through His Son, but most Jews did not accept that. That's one of the reasons he was taken to Rome. He was going to be put to death by the Jews for what he was doing but he appealed to the governor, to whom the Jews had to take him, just as they did Jesus, to be sentenced to death. There is no indication that Paul stayed with Jews in the months that he visited a location. He seems to have stayed with other christian believers.

It's all in the Scriptures.

God bless you,
In Christ, ted

 

[prodromos]

The foods that were forbidden in the Old Testament were also largely symbolic. Pigs wallow in the mud and cannot lift their heads to the heavens and are symbolic of the sinful life turned away from the worship of God. The sea foods which were forbidden were likewise symbolic, being bottom feeders, they were also in the mud like the pigs.

 

[rstrats]

Ignatius the Kiwi,
re: "For it doesn't go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body." (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.) Mark 7 19."


I assume that you when you quote the parenthetical note from your translation, "(Thus he declared all foods clean.)" at the end of verse 19, that you are suggesting that the Messiah was saying that unclean animals had been made clean. Even if the parenthetical entry is authentic - some translations such as the "King James" and the "Interlinear Greek-English New Testament" don't have it - I am not aware of any scripture that ever refers to unclean animals as "food". Thus He could only be saying that clean animals would not be made unclean by eating with unwashed hands.

The context of verses 1-20 has to do with the Pharisees' practice of always washing their hands before eating. The subject is not clean and unclean animals, but unclean hands. The Messiah showed that unclean thoughts are the things that most defile a man, not just unwashed hands. After explaining that inner defilement of the mind is far worse than defilement of the body, the Messiah concluded in the sister verse of Matthew 15:19 -20: " For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man".

The Pharisees watched every word and movement that the Messiah made. They falsely accused Him of breaking the Sabbath, and claimed that He blasphemed when He said God was His Father John 5:18. But never did any Jew accuse the Messiah of eating, or advocating the eating of unclean animals.

 

[wayfarersoul1978]

I don't think it's as strange as in some traditions where they eat lamb as the normal thing for Easter. I guess growing up in a family with midwestern, squeamish sensibilities, lamb wasn't something you ate. It's like saying "I eat babies!"

Well eve are baby lambs, but tradition lamb is adult.

 

[wayfarersoul1978]

The foods that were forbidden in the Old Testament were also largely symbolic. Pigs wallow in the mud and cannot lift their heads to the heavens and are symbolic of the sinful life turned away from the worship of God. The sea foods which were forbidden were likewise symbolic, being bottom feeders, they were also in the mud like the pigs.

Thank you, a honest and logical. But do not eastern tradition keep a lot of old fashion Middle eastern tradition even more then Catholics?

 

[ViaCrucis]

When you think about Christianity is Jewish faith and early followers and founders were Jews. I just think it funny how ham is popular option on such Jewish holy day. I know Jesús said in Matthew it not what you eat that make you unclean, but how act and behave. But, it did say Jesús stop being kosher. Now Peter was eating kosher and God/Jesús Send peter straight in version. Yet it seem Paul acted like a Jew and stay in the Jewish communities he travel. What do other think ?

In Christ and His covenant what we eat doesn't matter, but that we eat with thanksgiving and to the glory of God is what matters.

What one eats on Easter probably depends on family to family, and is informed primarily by culture. I don't recall eating pork regularly on Easter Sunday growing up. I don't remember if there was anything particular we ate as a family meal after church, but knowing my family if it was anything it was probably turkey.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[Rhamiel]

Anglos and Germans like ham
So ham is a main dish at major celebrations

 

[prodromos]

We Aussies are unique in that we are probably the only people in the world who happily eat the animals depicted on our National Coat of Arms

 

[Paidiske]

Don't be silly, prodromos. Don't you know the unicorn is extinct from over-hunting?

 

[prodromos]

Don't be silly, prodromos. Don't you know the unicorn is extinct from over-hunting?

That would explain why we don't have a unicorn on the coat of arms