Is it immoral to eat bacon?

[Itagaki]

We know the Mosaic Law was given to show God's Perfect Moral Will for people. Jesus Himself, is said to have kept every jot and tittle of the law, and if He broke even a fraction of it, such as eating a piece of bacon, He would have sinned against God and would no longer be able to be the perfect sacrifice to placate the anger of God towards us. Now, my concern is that eating bacon is sinful and wrong. Yet many Christians disobey the laws of God. Why?

The Law of God does not change. If eating a lobster or a bacon cheeseburger was wrong 3000 years ago, it is still wrong today. Obviously, if God says, "Don't eat from the Tree or you will die!" you don't eat from the tree! And fruit is far healthier than the death food, known as bacon! So then, why do Christians disregard the Law of God which clearly tells us what we can, and cannot, eat? Can anyone explain this to me, without twisting scripture?

The bible makes it clear consuming swine is sinful. So why do some pass it off as moral, when it clearly is not?

 

[Life2Christ]

Now, my concern is that eating bacon is sinful and wrong. Yet many Christians disobey the laws of God. Why?

Bacon is the least of our sordid issues.

The bible makes it clear consuming swine is sinful. So why do some pass it off as moral, when it clearly is not?

Christians are not under the Mosaic law that's why. That's the best I can say. Someone asked the preacher John Piper about it and he agreed. Christians are not under the Mosaic law. Jesus was a practicing Jew at a time when breaking the Mosaic law was equivilent to breaking the law.

 

[Itagaki]

Sooo... I can go out and kill somebody then? If we're not under the Law of God, then it is total anarchy. Every man for himself! I can go out and do whatever I like, because there is no law now!

 

[seeingeyes]

Is it immoral to keep baiting your brothers and sisters with issues that mean nothing to you in the hopes that one poor lunatic with argue will you and you will be able to pound him into the ground with your hammer of "rightness"?

 

[Itagaki]

Is it immoral to keep baiting your brothers and sisters with issues that mean nothing to you in the hopes that one poor lunatic with argue will you and you will be able to pound him into the ground with your hammer of "rightness"?

I don't want to go to hell for eating bacon.

 

[seeingeyes]

I don't want to go to hell for eating bacon.

"Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. Nothing outside a man can make him ‘unclean’ by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him ‘unclean.’”
After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable. “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him ‘unclean’? For it doesn’t go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods “clean.”)" (Mark 7:14-19)

 

[BFine]

Today, believers in Jesus Christ are saved by the grace found in the New Covenant, and as Paul taught, believers are not bound by the regulations of the Law found in the Old Covenant:
Rom. 6:14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

Rom. 7:4 Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.

Rom. 7:6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

Col. 2:16 Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day —
Col. 2:17 things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.


Therefore, Gentiles and those who believe in Jesus Christ are free to consume pork or anything God has made. It is not a sin, because the restrictions found in the Old Covenant apply only to Israel apart from the grace of the New Covenant.
(excerpt from versebyverseministry.org)


*If your health or your personal convictions don't allow you to consume it, then abstain from eating pork, certain sea-foods, etc.

 

[pgp_protector]

I don't want to go to hell for eating bacon.

If you wish to live under the law, then don't break any of the laws.
(Good luck)

 

[pappastratos]

acts 10:9
About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. 10 He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. 11 He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. 12 It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. 13 Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”
14 “Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”
15 The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”
16 This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.

 

[emmliy]

I don't want to go to hell for eating bacon.

you `wont go to hell eating that,

 

[Life2Christ]

Sooo... I can go out and kill somebody then? If we're not under the Law of God, then it is total anarchy. Every man for himself! I can go out and do whatever I like, because there is no law now!

Now you are being a silly rabbit. You know what I mean. Most non-believers in Christ know how to follow the laws of society and we are not in total anarchy. Its the disobedience to God and not putting God first that leads to anarchy.

 

[parsley]

Those animals were unclean. Not everything that is unclean is a sin -- some of it is simply not clean.

Lobsters and shellfish are bottom feeders, and filter the toxins out of the water. We still think they're delicacies (or staples). Ravens and vultures eat carrion, the wolves and big cats are carnivorous. Many of the approved animals were herbivores... not all... but in carnivores, many of the toxins and parasites accumulate from one host to the next.

The hoof issue was apparently related to how animals release toxins through their feet, and also take in toxins and hookworms from their feet... among other things like ruminating. I'd look it up for you but am running out of time.

 

[Jupiter Drops]

What does the Bible say about what foods we should eat (kosher)? Are there foods a Christian should avoid?

However, I would say that you shouldn't eat foods that are used as offerings to other gods and pagan rituals.


And no, you can't go out and kill people. You should still keep God's commandment: Love others as you love God. Which means that the 10 Commandments are still in control.

 

[CounselorForChrist]

Doesn't it say in the bible all things that God made on our planet our for us to eat when it comes to animals? Either way I am pretty sure only Jewish people believe in food restrictions (Kosher). I love bacon btw, although at this point I can't eat it anyways lol.

 

[Ultima4257]

I think Itagaki has a point. Jesus did say in Matthew 5:18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. With that being said I guess it would be a sin to eat bacon. As a matter of fact I guess if you want to go on with this topic, I guess we could say that other laws in the bible are constantly being broken according to our culture. See below:

If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her. Deuteronomy 22:28-29

If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife. Deuteronomy 22:23-24
(It would really suck for the girl to be mute in this scenario huh!)

And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and
the adulteress shall surely be put to death. Leviticus 20:10

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear. Deuteronomy 21:28

I could go on if you wish. The fact of the matter is I believe the Law was created specifically for that culture in that period of time. In other words it isn't relevant to this day. Although eating pork definently is unhealthy for you as mentioned above. I do however, think the 10 commandents are relevant for today.

 

[Itagaki]

What does the Bible say about what foods we should eat (kosher)? Are there foods a Christian should avoid?

However, I would say that you shouldn't eat foods that are used as offerings to other gods and pagan rituals.


And no, you can't go out and kill people. You should still keep God's commandment: Love others as you love God. Which means that the 10 Commandments are still in control.

They are?

Do you observe the Shabbat? I certainly hope so.

I presume you go lights out from Friday at sundown till Saturday at sundown, not leaving your home, working, or using any appliances.

That is what it means to observe Shabbat.

 

[Itagaki]

Doesn't it say in the bible all things that God made on our planet our for us to eat when it comes to animals? Either way I am pretty sure only Jewish people believe in food restrictions (Kosher). I love bacon btw, although at this point I can't eat it anyways lol.

Moslems do not eat unclean food, like swine, either.

 

[Itagaki]

I think Itagaki has a point. Jesus did say in Matthew 5:18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. With that being said I guess it would be a sin to eat bacon. As a matter of fact I guess if you want to go on with this topic, I guess we could say that other laws in the bible are constantly being broken according to our culture. See below:

If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her. Deuteronomy 22:28-29

If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife. Deuteronomy 22:23-24
(It would really suck for the girl to be mute in this scenario huh!)

And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and
the adulteress shall surely be put to death. Leviticus 20:10

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear. Deuteronomy 21:28

I could go on if you wish. The fact of the matter is I believe the Law was created specifically for that culture in that period of time. In other words it isn't relevant to this day. Although eating pork definently is unhealthy for you as mentioned above. I do however, think the 10 commandents are relevant for today.

Cool.

So you too observe Shabbat?

 

[Jupiter Drops]

They are?

Do you observe the Shabbat? I certainly hope so.

I presume you go lights out from Friday at sundown till Saturday at sundown, not leaving your home, working, or using any appliances.

That is what it means to observe Shabbat.

Now what are you talking about?

http://www.gotquestions.org/Sabbath-keeping.html

 

[Ultima4257]

Cool.

So you too observe Shabbat?

I am not sure what you mean by Shabbat. If you mean the entire Old Testament Law then no I do not observe it. I was using those verses above to illustrate that some of the Old Testament Law seems to be irrelevant to this day, if not insanely cruel. In regards to eating pork or unclean meats I have tried to stay away from them in the past, but I do sometimes consume them, but not regularly. Expelled from my people must I go!!!