The dietary laws only apply if you meet two criteria:
1) That you are Jewish.
2) You are under the Old Covenant which God made with the Jewish people on Mt. Sinai.
Now, here's the thing:
"But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant He mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion for a second.
But He finds fault with them when He says:
'Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in My covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. And they shall not teach, each one of his neighbor and each one of his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest. For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.'
In speaking of a new covenant, He makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away." - Hebrews 8:6-13
If you are a Christian, then the Old Covenant does not apply to you. Period. You are under the New Covenant, which is found in the precious blood of Jesus Christ.
"And likewise [taking] the cup after they had eaten, saying, 'This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood.'" - Luke 22:20
Further, St. Paul clearly teaches that what we eat is of no consequence,
"As for the one who is weak in the faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand." - Romans 14:1-4
Christ Himself also having said,
"And He called the people to Him again and said to them, 'Hear Me, all of you, and understand: There is nothing outside of a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.'" - Mark 7:14-15
When a group came from Jerusalem to Antioch where Sts. Paul and Peter were ministering, Peter showed cowardice, and did not eat with the Gentile believers, which led to Paul rebuking him (note that Cephas is Peter, "Peter" coming from the Greek Petros meaning "rock" and Cephas from the Aramaic Kepha meaning "rock", it's the same name in two different languages)
"But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party. And the rest of the [Jewish believers] acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. But when I saw their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, 'If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?'" - Galatians 2:11-14
In other words, eat all the bacon you want, and do so joyfully and with thanksgiving to God.
And the same is true with the Sabbath.
If you want to rest on Saturday, then rest on Saturday. If you want to work on Saturday, then work on Saturday. If you want to eat a bacon-wrapped porkchop on Saturday, then you can do so, completely with your conscience clear before God.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is either deceived themselves or else a liar and a wolf in sheep's clothing.
-CryptoLutheran
