Why Cant Christians Eat Pork?

Pork, shrimp, seafood, meat, vegetables, anything. There is nothing that is restricting us and let me explain why. In the Old Testament God gave dietary laws to Israel. Remember He didn’t give them to everybody He only gave them to the Israelites.

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Subsequently,Is it okay to eat a pig in the Bible?

Isaiah 66:17 puts pig eating in the same category as eating rodents, and both are abominable-detestable. Leviticus 11 is still true today. So in order to convince yourself that eating pig is okay, you have to find Scripture that shows God has changed His mind on this.

One may also ask,What did the Bible say about eating meat?

But God did ban one aspect of eating animals. After giving Noah and his descendants permission to eat meat the Creator stated: “But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.” (Genesis 9:4) In practical terms, this means the blood must be drained out of a freshly killed animal before it could be eaten.

In this manner,Is it mentioned in the Bible that Christians never ate pork?

This is actually described in the Bible. The Jewish Christians (who were the majority in the early church) kept the Torah and never ate pork (or anything unclean according to the Torah).

Why is pork considered to be unclean food?

For centuries, pork truly was unclean because the treatment of parasites through high heat cooking was not understood. (And people still ignore this.) Lobster and shellfish were also on the list — bottom feeders that clean the water of toxins, and retain things like mercury more than scaled fish.

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