Why Am I Eating a Pork Chop?

[Carl Emerson]

And point out Paul said meats "created to be received".

What meats did God create to be received? Not scavenger meats.

It's science, not religion.

If science declared pork poisonous it would be swiftly removed from the supermarket.

 

[Leaf473]

It clearly states in Deuteronomy 14:8 that we’re not to eat pork. In fact, Deuteronomy and Leviticus clearly state a lot of things that we don’t adhere to.

13:6 through18: We’re instructed to kill without mercy -even your own family members- anyone who tries to convince you to worship other gods.

17:2 through 13: Kill anyone who does evil-such as worshipping the stars- and violates the covenant. And if you’re not sure if the party is guilty, take it to court and if the Judge finds the party guilty and you refuse take part in stoning the defendant to death, then you should be killed too.

21:18: Kill your own son if he is rebellious.

Thou shalt not kill, but Deuteronomy, Leviticus, and Exodus is full of examples like this where we are to kill people for sinning. What about “as we forgive those who trespass against us”? I seem to have made executing people the theme here, but there are instructions/laws on other topics as well that we don’t follow, I’m assuming because they just don’t seem consistent with our faith.

So why is it OK to have a pork Bratwurst at the church fundraising event these days when God clearly forbids it?

You could argue that things were different back then and don’t apply today. But that would nullify the Ten Commandments. These laws I’m referring to were issued on the same day. They just didn’t make the top ten list.

Myself, I think the key is here

Romans 14:5 One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind. 6 He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn't eat, to the Lord he doesn't eat, and gives God thanks.

I definitely fall into the "all days alike" category, and I eat beef with the fat (unclean, I believe).

I believe the entire law (including the 10) is fulfilled by loving one's neighbor as oneself. If someone else wants to follow certain laws, that's fine. I've given up (hopefully) trying to get other people to live like I do (which I used to do a lot ).

 

[LoveGodsWord]

Myself, I think the key is here

Romans 14:5 One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind. 6 He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn't eat, to the Lord he doesn't eat, and gives God thanks.

I definitely fall into the "all days alike" category, and I eat beef with the fat (unclean, I believe).

I believe the entire law (including the 10) is fulfilled by loving one's neighbor as oneself. If someone else wants to follow certain laws, that's fine. I've given up (hopefully) trying to get other people to live like I do (which I used to do a lot ).

Romans 14:5-6 with context added back is to eating and not eating (fasting) on days that men esteem over other days. Nothing to do with anything else.

As to the biblical dietary laws? Well we have seen what happened with this global pandemic with people eating unclean foods. I personally believe God gave us His health laws for a reason and we should believe and follow them as with all the Word of God.

Isaiah 66:17, They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the middle, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, said the LORD.

I believe that it is best to follow what God says as he made us and knows what is best for us.

 

[Soyeong]

thanks for the response, Soyeong.
Yeah, I would guess that it would be rare or if at all that a rebellious son would be executed. What parent would do that? What I'm interpreting from your response, though, is that, given how you defend the pork law, you think that a rebellious son, providing there are two witnesses (most likely the kid's younger sisters- lol), should be executed to this day per God's instructions. Is this correct?

Jesus gave himself to pay the penalty for our sins, so it would be unjust to enforce a penalty that has already been paid. However, the fact that God considers certain sins to be worthy of the death penalty and the fact that Jesus gave himself to pay that penalty should make us want to go and sin no more by living in obedience to God's law.

 

[Yeshua HaDerekh]

Peter was told kill and eat, he said no lord I have never eaten anything unclean.
HE was told don't call anything unclean that God has made clean

He was NOT speaking about food, He was speaking about GENTILES...please read things in context!

 

[Yeshua HaDerekh]

Here's why you can eat a pork chop also:

9 The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray. 10 And he became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance 11 and saw the heavens opened and something like a great sheet descending, being let down by its four corners upon the earth. 12 In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air. 13 And there came a voice to him: “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.” 14 But Peter said, “By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.” 15 And the voice came to him again a second time, “What God has made clean, do not call common.” 16 This happened three times, and the thing was taken up at once to heaven.

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2016). (Ac 10:9–16). Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles.

That has NOTHING to do with food...PLEASE read things in context! He was speaking of Gentiles!

 

[Yeshua HaDerekh]

So when Jesus said that nothing that enters a man defiles Him, he was mistaken?

There are lots of things I won't eat because they are nasty. But that is not because of Divine Prohibition. Maybe God in wanting Israel to be different from all other nations around them selected critters that were more apt to make people sick- but that is not written so it is only a guess. They couldn't eat animals whose hoof was not split.

But those dietary restrictions as a matter of law were fro Israel alone and not for the Church. If a church member wishes to adopt the dietary laws, that is their freedom to do so, as long as they don't call it sin in the lives of others who enjoy a pork chop and lobster and clams.

The CONTEXT was eating with unwashed hands...there is NO mention of allowing the consumption of non-kosher food...

 

[Hammster]

Romans 14:5-6 with context added back is to eating and not eating (fasting) on days that men esteem over other days. Nothing to do with anything else.

As to the biblical dietary laws? Well we have seen what happened with this global pandemic with people eating unclean foods. I personally believe God gave us His health laws for a reason and we should believe and follow them as with all the Word of God.

Isaiah 66:17, They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the middle, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, said the LORD.

I believe that it is best to follow what God says as he made us and knows what is best for us.

Exactly, if you are an Israelite and under the old covenant.

 

[LoveGodsWord]

Exactly, if you are an Israelite and under the old covenant.

In the new covenant according to the scripture God's ISRAEL today are all those who believe and follow God's Word *John 10:26-27. If we are not a part of God's ISRAEL today we have no part in God's new covenant promise *Hebrews 8:10-12 from Jeremiah 31:31-34; Ezekiel 36:24-27. Gentiles are now grafted in *Romans 11:13-27. God's ISRAEL is no longer in the flesh but of the Spirit according to Romans 9:6-8. All of God's Word is for all of God's people who are all those who believe and follow God's Word and Jesus says we are to live by every word of God in Matthew 4:4 (quoting from Deuteronomy 8:3). True faith is also demonstrated by believing and following God's Word according to the scriptures in James 2:17-26

 

[Hammster]

In the new covenant according to the scripture God's ISRAEL today are all those who believe and follow God's Word *John 10:26-27. If we are not a part of God's ISRAEL today we have no part in God's new covenant promise *Hebrews 8:10-12 from Jeremiah 31:31-34; Ezekiel 36:24-27. Gentiles are now grafted in *Romans 11:13-27. God's ISRAEL is no longer in the flesh but of the Spirit according to Romans 9:6-8. All of God's Word is for all of God's people who are all those who believe and follow God's Word and Jesus says we are to live by every word of God in Matthew 4:4 (quoting from Deuteronomy 8:3). True faith is also demonstrated by believing and following God's Word according to the scriptures in James 2:17-26

Every word except the ones that YOU don’t follow, correct?

 

[Bob Carabbio]

MMM-McRib!

 

[GodLovesCats]

The question remains. If you know it's forbidden in Scripture, why are you doing it anyway?

Scripture also prohibits eating aquatic animals in the same chapter, but Jesus served fish to 5,000 people during his ministry. If the dietary laws in Leviticus and Deuteronomy were still in effect for everyone, that miracle (which began with three fish) would not have happened. So clearly the dietary laws changed.

 

[LoveGodsWord]

Every word except the ones that YOU don’t follow, correct?

And what would that be? Or is it the ones YOU do not follow that your having issues with?

 

[BBAS 64]

 

[SabbathBlessings]

Scripture also prohibits eating aquatic animals in the same chapter, but Jesus served fish to 5,000 people during his ministry. If the dietary laws in Leviticus and Deuteronomy were still in effect for everyone, that miracle (which began with three fish) would not have happened. So clearly the dietary laws changed.

There are many fish that are considered clean, the scavengers, bottom feeders etc. are not clean.

 

[Hammster]

And what would that be? Or is it the ones YOU do not follow that your having issues with?

You don’t follow every OT law. Please don’t pretend that you do.

 

[LoveGodsWord]

You don’t follow every OT law. Please don’t pretend that you do.

Why would I need to follow every law of the old covenant? We are in the new covenant now based on better promises, not the old. The old covenant laws for remission of sins are only a shadow laws that are fulfilled and continued in the new pointing to Jesus and His ministration on our behalf in the Heavenly Sanctuary as God's sacrifice for the sins of the world *John 1:29 and our great High Priest. No more animal sacrifices and sin offerings, no more Levitical Priesthood, no more earthly temple which was only a copy of the heavenly temple that the Lord pitched and not man *Hebrews 8:1-6. There is no pretending on my side so please do not pretend that there is.

 

[GodLovesCats]

There are many fish that are considered clean, the scavengers, bottom feeders etc. are not clean.

I was sure Leviticus wrote we are not allowed to eat anything that swims.

 

[Hammster]

Why would I need to follow every law of the old covenant? We are in the new covenant now based on better promises, not the old. The old covenant laws for remission of sins are only a shadow laws that are fulfilled and continued in the new pointing to Jesus and His ministration on our behalf in the Heavenly Sanctuary as God's sacrifice for the sins of the world *John 1:29 and our great High Priest. No more animal sacrifices and sin offerings, no more Levitical Priesthood, no more earthly temple which was only a copy of the heavenly temple that the Lord pitched and not man *Hebrews 8:1-6. There is no pretending on my side so please do not pretend that there is.

So you can eat pork. Awesome.

 

[LoveGodsWord]

So you can eat pork. Awesome.

Depends if we believe God's Word or not. Where does it say we can eat pork in the scriptures? I can only find this about eating pork below and in God's laws in regards to not eating pork in Deuteronomy 14:8 and it does not say we should be eating it although it seems many will be eating it and other unclean foods just prior to the second coming according to Isaiah...

Isaiah 66:17, They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the middle, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, said the LORD.