Muslims and Jews do not eat pork because the old testimant (Leviticus 11) says not to eat pig and any other animal which are not clean, like the camel or the hare.
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New testement gave the allowance.  This was used also to show that unclean things had now become clean,  Allowing the Gentiles to become Christian.\n(although they were actually still Jewish at that time but Christian Jews)
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I think the first question means "Why were the seven commandments shortened for the stupid animals?"\n\n2-1 If everyone was equal then why did the pigs get milk and apples? ( That was one of the commandments, everyone is equal)\n\n2- It means the pigs (Napoleon) are taking over and their dream is not going to work out.
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You would have to ask someone who was Jewish. But animals do not have souls which are "accountable" for sin, so I wouldn't think that it would matter to the animal. They aren't going to go to hell. But the owner is in charge of what the pet gets to eat (most of the time!) so it would be up to them.
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Well, apparently they do not understand the term "personal conviction".  God gave us the animals to not only keep under our domination but also to eat (it is in Genesis...through the rest of the OT you can read about the stuff they weren't supposed to eat).\n\nIn the NT, it specifically states that it isn't what is put INTO the body that makes someone "unclean" - it is what comes out of our heart.  Paul even spoke of eating meat made as a sacrifice to idols.
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It doesn't prove anything that cats are not mentioned in the Bible.  There is no mention of any kind of pets in the Bible....dogs, cats, hamsters, guinea pigs, etc.  As far as I can tell, people in Bible days didn't keep pets.  They had enough things to contend with in their lives without trying to keep an animal alive and well.
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Kosher has little to do with being "blessed by a Rabbi". Fresh fruit and vegetables, for example are automatically kosher (unless they are wormy or bug infested). \n\nObviously only certain meats have the possiblity of being kosher.  Unkosher meats would include rats, cats, humans, etc. The rules of which animals are kosher are outlined in the Bible.  (There are obviously those who reject the Bible and thus don't care about kosher.) Also the way in which the animal is killed may render it unkosher.  For example, even a kosher animal is unkosher if you strangled it to death, if it is road kill, etc.\n\nTo be certified kosher the kosher animal has to be slaughtered properly and under strict rabbinic observation, the carcus inspected for adhesions on the internal organs, etc.\n\nI suppose you could reasonably hassle your Christian friends by asking the old "WWJD?" question.
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islam only forbids pork it doesnt see it as evil...\n\nmore about this....\n\n\nFood and drink have direct effect on our health. That is why Islam has prescribed regulations about our food and drink. It lays great emphasis on our physical as well as moral health, because both of these are equally important for a healthy society. The abstention from eating pork is one of the steps taken by Islam to practise hygiene and to attain purity of soul.\n\nIslam, for the cultivation of inner faculties, insists upon the cleanliness of body and the purification of soul through Salaat (prayers) Zikr (remembrance of Allah) and other devotional duties. Islam teaches us how to attain the virtues and how to give up bad habits because both good and bad grow in the man according to his upbringing, education and environment.\n\nA human being has natural desires: food, sleep and sex being the three primary ones. He has also natural emotions: sorrow, happiness, love, fear, disgust and avarice etc. Islam doesn't recommend the complete abrogation of these impulses but offers a method of controlling them through religious education and discipline.\n\nThe prohibition of eating pork in Islam is relevant in this context. There is a saying in English that "a man becomes what he eats." According to physicians and medical experts, pork is a harmful diet. Consumption of swine-flesh creates lowliness in character and destroys moral and spiritual faculties in a man. \n\nBody & Soul\nThe life of a man is a compound of body and soul. Anything, which is harmful for the body, hurts the soul as well. Consumption of swine-flesh reduces the feeling of shame and as such the standard of modesty. Those nations, which consume pork habitually, have a low standard of morality with the result that virginity, chastity and bashfulness are becoming a thing of the past in Europe today. The number of unwed mothers is on the increase despite the use of pills and other contraceptives.\n\nAccording to a report, 60 to 70% girls in Sweden become mothers before marriage. The formula of "skin to skin is no sin" is having its toll but there is hardly and feeling of shame and remorse over the end-result. Since the European nations have become addicted to wine and pork, sexual freedom with all its attendant evils has got ingrained in their culture. Consequently, homosexuality has been legalized by the British Parliament.\n\nThe Holy Qur'an has prohibited the swine-flesh, hence the Muslims would not dare touch it. The Bible has also forbidden swine-flesh, but Christians disregarded this order and started consuming it. The Europeans now proclaim that pork is a very powerful diet, rich in protein. Some of them further argue that since there is a great scarcity of food-stuffs in the world and swines are available in abundant quantity, they should be consumed in diet to overcome the food shortage. If this argument is true, why don't they use dog's meat as dogs too are available in plenty? The Europeans perhaps hate the mention of dog's meat in the same way as the Muslims shun pork.\n\nAnother wrong notion about swine-flesh is that its consumption lengthens life-span, although this is a pure myth and absurdity. On the contrary, people, who abstain from pork and liquor, have a longer span of life. The Muslims in Central Asia bear a testimony to this truth.\n\nHowever, in the consumption of flesh Muslims are required to be selective and distinguish between Halaal (Lawful) and Haraam (Unlawful). This step leads automatically to the deeper understanding of the need for the cultivation of a pure human nature. As blood is virtually our life-stream and whatever we consume ultimately affects the blood system, it is, therefore, necessary to exercise choice in the selection of our food and drink as per the requirements of the Shariah.\n\nThere are certain foods and drinks specified by Allah, and His Messenger Prophet Muhammad (peace be on him) as forbidden. The pro
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As Christianity infected the world, it entered areas where pork had always been consumed, this continued. No source of protein that delicious would go un-utilized by hungry people who had a tradition of consuming it.
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There were different viewpoints in the early Christian church on this issue.  Some felt that in order to be a Christian, you had to first become Jewish and keep all the Jewish laws with perhaps the exception of the sacrifices.  Others felt that you did not have to follow all the Jewish laws, but that certain ones ought to be kept, such as the Jewish calendar (Holidays), the moral laws, and dietary laws.  Others, and Paul is in this group, felt that one did not have to keep any of the Jewish laws except for the laws of morality.  \n\nPaul has the largest influence in the New Testament, and therefore most Christians do not feel any obligation to keep the dietary laws.  But understand that Paul did not view the Torah (Law) as totally bad.  He felt that it was good for teaching us what sin is.  And he also felt that it was not bad in itself, but Paul did object to the way the "Judaizers" (those of the first 2 groups I mentioned) VIEWED the law.  Paul taught that the law is well and good, but it does not lead to salvation.  You are justified by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.  And that is your salvation, not works of the law.\n\nSo here is my advice:  If you agree with Paul, then I think you may keep the dietary laws or other laws of the Torah, JUST AS LONG as you do not begin to think that it is by the performance of that law that you have salvation.  Salvation is by the grace of God through your faith in Jesus.\nThat's Paul.\n\nNow, my opinion:  Our body is a temple (Paul also agrees with this concept) and therefore we are to take care of it and keep it pure.  So if you believe that by keeping the dietary laws, you will be healthier, then I say by all means, you should do that.  But honestly we do not know for sure why those Laws were ever given.  The Bible does not say to follow those dietary laws so that you will be healthier, but so that you will be "holy."  If the Bible was trying to give you a diet for good health, it should have prohibited eggs and poison mushrooms.  But it does not.  And furthermore, eating meat is not considered the healthiest diet.  The original plan of God in the Bible seems to be vegetarianism.  Remember that before Noah, God gave the people "every herb of the trees, etc" as food.  It was a vegetarian system.  But after Noah, then God allowed meat-eating, but it can almost be seen as a concession.  The Jewish interpretation is that God saw how wicked man was and that he just wasn't good enought that God could expect them to be strict vegetarians.  So he said, Ok, you can eat meat, just so long as you do not eat the blood, etc.\n\nThe only reason that the Bible gives for the dietary laws is so that "you will be holy, as I the Lord your God am holy."  In Hebrew, the word holy carries the connotation of set apart.  It has been speculated that God was trying to set the Jewish people apart from the surrounding nations.  Many of them sacrificed pigs for example.  And God forbade the Israelites from this, so that they would not be like the surrounding nations, and perhaps because the pig was seen as dirty (understandably!).  \n\nIn some times and places, people have to rely on meat-eating to survive.  But I think that the ideal is vegetarianism.  According to the Bible, God gave humans dominion over the animals......but does dominion mean we have to be cruel rulers?  I think that if we are capable we should be vegetarians.  But if you are in a time and place where that is not possible, then God of course would understand.  But that is just my opinion.\n\nMy brother has a neat little book called, "What Would Jesus Eat?"  You might really enjoy that!  It talks about the diet of that time period.  And it was a whole lot healthier than what we eat!  They ate little meat, and a lot of whole grains and legumes.  They did eat a lot of fish of course, being in the Galilee.
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In the Muslim world, pigs are the lowest, dirtiest animals and it is forbidden to eat them.  To give a pig the human qualities of speech, intelligence and a personality is highly blasphemous!
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both muslims and jews would, if they knew it came from hogs, probably not accept it as a medicinal product, not because it wouldn't help, but because , to them, pork, and anything derived from it, is unclean to them. however, some jews, and possibly muslims, who do not fully follow the dietary laws, would probably allow the medicine to be used.\ni know that some of the reformed jews even eat bacon and ham because they are aware of the original purpose of the ditery laws as being used to prevent the ingestion of certain organisms which can cause extreme illness, and even death, when the meat is not fully cooked. pork is a transmitter of the smal cysytic parasite which causes elephantiasis, an illness which causes the leg to become huge, and useless as a limb used to walk on.
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Jesus ate no unclean meats.\nIsaiah 66:15-17For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with His chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.16- For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many,17- They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, EATING SWINE'S FLESH, AND THE ABOMINATION, AND THE MOUSE, SHALL BE CONSUMED TOGETHER SAYS THE LORD.\n  I don't think we have seen the Lord come back with such fury, as spoken in these verses, so this  is yet to come, and we can see quite clearly from these verses, unclean meat is still considered unclean meats today as well as in the Old Testament.
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because of the caffeine content in coffee, some teas, and some sodas- it is forbidden to use such "stimulants"\n\nand it has not been forgotten with the new testament- it has more so adapted to more hygienic treatment of animal products through the years- it used to be very unsafe to eat meat, especially certain cuts of meat or meat of questionable origins, that's why there were so many dietary restrictions- some people still hold fast to their dietary beliefs while others have changed with the times
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The story of the pig and Muhammad is nonsensical and lame.\n\nPigs are glutton. They eat everything. Is everything clean? Pigs are the most withstandable animal against bacteria and virus. Quite like walking vessels of bacteria.\n\nPigs are the sources of some terrible diseases like J.E. and avian flu (if not mistaken).\n\nSome may say that pigs are tasty. It is true based on the saying "Not all good things are sweet and not all bad things are bitter". \n\nNo matter what technique scientists do to make pigs safely edible, they will not accomplish that because zillions generations of pigs have lived and practised the glutton eating habits and made them super dangerous to consume and to have contact with them. \n\nPigs do breed super-fast. Even an offspring can give out birth just after two months (if not mistaken).  \n\nGod forbids men to eat pigs because of the above statements and maybe more to discovered. God knows best. However, we can eat pigs if there is no other choice of food or during very, very difficult times.
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Both Judaism And Islam are religions that govern the  whole way of life, and I think that you are right that because of the climates where they first attracted many believers and the inability to keep meat fresh in the olden days, the relions banned pork as a matter of practicality (Then), unfortunate for modern times when so many people have problems finding enough to eat in the third world....
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unclean animals include any animal that is in some way presented as dirty for example shell fish are considered unclean because they eat dead and decaying matter off the floors of the ocean. also any scavenging bird or animal such as ravens crows weasels, vultures, owls, lizards, ferrets, many different types of bugs, rats, squid, snakes.\n\nLeviticus 11:1-47 has characteristics of unclean animals
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Who said that? \nIn my country, many Muslims pets dog, and bred pigs too even they may not eat it..Im not Muslim, but that's the fact that i got..\n\nMissinformation i think