Hi all
Sorry to go a bit off topic. This is an informative thread that i enjoy reading. However, if can I humbly request that you don't use the "sw*ne" word. Please just use pig or pork or hog etc. In my country, sw*ne is an extremely offensive word, on par with the "f" word, and it make me very uncomfortable to read that word in some of the posts.
Thank you for your understanding.
Hi tripleseven and welcome to CF
It is hard to get around talking about swine in a discussion about clean and unclean foods when it is written in the scriptures. I will try and be mindful though or perhaps you can simply interpret the word how it is meant to be interpreted in the biblical context?
Swine is written all through the bible....
Leviticus 11:7 And the
swine, though he divide the hoof, and be cloven footed, yet he chews not the cud; he is unclean to you.
Deuteronomy 14:8 And the swine, because it divides the hoof, yet chews not the cud, it is unclean to you: you shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcass.
Proverbs 11:22 As a jewel of gold in a
swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
Isaiah 65:4 Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat
swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
Isaiah 66:3 He that kills an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrifices a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offers an oblation, as if he offered
swine's blood; he that burns incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.
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.
Matthew 7:6 Give not that which is holy to the dogs, neither cast you your pearls before
swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
Matthew 8:30 And there was a good way off from them an herd of many
swine feeding.
Matthew 8:31 So the devils sought him, saying, If you cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of
swine.
Matthew 8:32 And he said to them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of
swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.
Mark 5:11 Now there was there near to the mountains a great herd of
swine feeding.
Mark 5:12-14 And all the devils sought him, saying, Send us into the
swine, that we may enter into them. And immediately Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the
swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand
and were choked in the sea. And they that fed the
swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.
Mark 5:16 And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the
swine.
Luke 8:32 And there was there an herd of many
swine feeding on the mountain: and they sought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.
Luke 8:33 Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the
swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.
Luke 15:15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed
swine.
Luke 15:16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the
swine did eat: and no man gave to him.
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God bless
