Eating Pork
Thomas Allen
I posted a comment to a comment on “TikToker Fired After Exposing How Plastic Is Getting In Pig Feed” by Anthony T (https://welovetrump.com/2022/09/08/tiktoker-fired-after-exposing-how-plastic-is-getting-in-pig-feed/#comment-5976483530). I argued that, according to the Scriptures, we were no longer obliged not to eat pork. My comment caused some discussion, with most commenters siding with the prohibition against eating pork. I call them Old Testament Christians because they seem to place more weight on the Old Testament than on the New Testament. Yet, none claimed that we are compelled to keep all the Old Testament laws; apparently, we are only required to keep the dietary laws. One claims that I did not know the difference between laws, statutes, and ordinances. Yet, when I asked him to explain the difference, he refused.
Of all the conservative websites where I have posted comments, with rare exceptions, the commenters at this site have the least intelligence and knowledge. Most of them can only parrot back the Republican, neoconservative, and establishment conservative propaganda that they have managed to absorb. When they lack any good counterargument, they often resort to name-calling.
This discussion is presented in the appendix. The names have been changed to protect the guilty. I have added an afterthought to one comment.
Appendix
B: There are many reasons God forbids eating swine, add this to the list.
M to B: Pigs will eat anything, including humans. We need to run China out of this country. Never buy Smithfield. Democrats would make good pig feed. Or, maybe we’ll find out there are some things pigs just won’t eat.
Me to M: Most pigs eat a more nutritional diet than nearly every human in this country.
M to Me: Regardless, they will eat anything and Smithfield is owned by China. I eat bacon, just not any brand.
W to M: No worries. If I get hungry enough to eat Swine I’m already doomed. I’m not a Jew but when it comes to pigs, I’m Kosher.
Besides, God tells us that it is naughty to sup on Pigs!
M to W: But you can’t have a BLT without bacon. If we feed the democrats to the pigs i’m [sic] done with bacon.
Me to B: In Mark, Jesus declared all food, which would included [sic] pork, clean.
B to Me: No he didn’t
Me to B: Mark 7:19 — because it goeth not into his heart, but into his belly, and goeth out into the draught? This he said, making all meats clean.
Pork is a meat; therefore, Jesus declared it clean. Your argument is with Jesus, not with me.
Cs to Me: Yeah, no food can deflie [sic] you. Spiritually. Thats [sic] what Jesus was talking about. If you read the whole chapter, thats [sic] the topic. Read the next verse for clarification. Mark 7:20
But God the Father did give us dietary guidelines on what to eat and not to eat, as it pertains to the body. Why would he repeat himself and say ‘Eat honey’ if later on he’s just gonna say, “Just kidding. Eat whatever you want.”
Its [sic] wisdom not legalism.
It wasnt [sic] about phyiscal [sic] health but spiritual. If the rabbis touched pigs, they were ceremonially unclean and couldn’t attend their services, etc.
Jesus was saying thats [sic] nonsense.
Now when it comes to health, pigs eat crap. Eat pigs and you;re [sic] likely to get worms Youre [sic] decision.
If you just go by Mark 7:19, it sounds like there’s no such thing as junk food.
Hope that makes sense.
Me to Cs: In Galatians 3:23–25, Paul writes that Christians are no longer under the law. “23 But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24 So that the law is become our tutor to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But now that faith is come, we are no longer under a tutor.”
Animal sacrifices were a major part of the law. Do you still follow the law by sacrificing animals, or did God repeal that law for Christians? If He repeals one law, why can He not repeal another law?
“Now when it comes to health, pigs eat crap. Eat pigs and you're likely to get worms.” Obviously, you know little about modern-day pig farms. What you say may be true for pasture raised pigs. However, nearly all pork sold today comes from pigs whose hoofs never touch the ground from the time that they are born to the time that they are slaughtered. These pigs live in an environment more sterile than almost every human household. Moreover, chickens eat crap, and there is no scriptural prohibition against eating chickens. (An old farming book that I have gives the following advice for maximizing a pasture. First, run cattle across it. Then, run pigs across it to eat what passes through the cattle. Finally, run chickens across it to eat what passes through the pigs.)
B to Me: Matt 5:18 (Jesus’ words) says he will not change the law. Lev. 11 (entire chapter but focus on v 46-47). The clean and unclean foods are LAWS, Jesus didn’t change the law. You are misunderstanding an interpretation.
Me to B: Then, according to you, Jesus lied. Both statements cannot be true. If he did not change the law, why are we not doing animal sacrifices as the Old Testament commanded? [Afterthought: Jesus did not change the law; he fulfilled the law by completing its purpose and meaning. He was saying that nothing would pass from the law until he fulfilled it.]
B to Me: You don’t know the difference between laws, statutes and ordinances. Jesus never changed the law.
Me to B: Please explain the difference between the three and provide a list of laws, statutes, and ordinances.
B to Me: II Tim. 2:15
Me to B: 2 Timothy 2:15 King James Version
15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Uh! Your response avoids answering my question. Please explain the difference between the three and provide a list of laws, statutes, and ordinances.
B to Me: Study yourself, i’m [sic] not going to spoon feed you
Me to B: My studies show that I am right and you are wrong. Moreover, most of the theologians and clergy that have consulted agree with me and not with you. Also, I must conclude that you do not know the difference between laws, statutes, and ordinances and that you cannot provide a list of them.
B to Me: Keep tooting your horn and puffing your chest out and eating that swine.
O to B: go outside both those books there were multiple references and (ellen g white is not a second god or prophet... just a shrewd Mormon clone and a diet nazi [sic]) 1 Timothy 4:1-5 “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.” KJV
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