What has this to do with Christians eating Pigs?
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Nothing in creation is unclean because God made it clean, and so pigs are not unclean and we can eat them.
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I grew up in the West but since have embraced an eastern religion.  I am now a vegetarian, but it was not easy to make that change because meat-eating is such a given in my culture.  I think the main reason that modern Westerners tolerate meat-eating is that they take it for granted and do not think about it.  They grew up with it, so they just never think to question it.\n\nOriginally, meat-eating may have been necessary for people in cold climates in Europe or something.  Perhaps that is all they could find to eat to keep themselves alive in winter.  I know that even my own mother had to eat groundhog when she was a kid because that is literally all they could find to eat.\n\nBut once this becomes a part of the culture, people forget about the fact that what was once only done out of necessity is now done for pleasure.  People in my culture just love meat.  They don't like vegetables!  Eastern cuisines just know better what to do with vegetables!  They use spices and good sauces, whereas here, we basically just put butter, salt, and pepper on everything (usually out of a can at that).  So we think veggies taste bad!  \n\nAnother issue is the fact that some people purposely refuse to be vegetarians because they fear the stereotypical image that some vegetarians have.  They do not want to be seen as a "New Age liberal freak."  That's really how a lot of people see vegetarianism where I am.  \n\nThe Bible says that God put man over the animals and nature to "have dominion."  But instead of seeing this as a responsibility to care for the animals and plants, too many people see in this a justification to USE animals and plants to whatever benefit we can derive from them.  Most Christians I have talked to about this say that animals do not have souls, and that they were put here strictly for OUR purposes.  I believe that this is merely an attempt to justify their actions.  I do not think that is what the Bible originally intended.  In fact, the Bible depicts 2 times in history that are vegetarian:  the Garden of Eden, and the Messianic Era - the times where things are right and done in the proper way.
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"The age of martyrs also produced a great number of writers who wrote about Christianity and what they believe in order to dispel some of the myths about Christians (some said they were cannibals because they ate the “body and blood”) These writers became known as “The Apologists” and they were able to help clarify Christian theology to the pagans, leaving us with some of the greatest explanations of the Christian faith."\n\n\nWhat you teacher tells you is true.  Christians were deemed to be cannibals because of the whole blood host thing with communion and they were martyred by mass murders.\n\nThis is an important lesson in not taking the time to really learn about something and just assuming that rumors are true - like what you hear on TV - \n\nBig spin off in the Catholic religion when King Henry VIII of England wanted to divorce his wife and the Pope said NO.  So, Henry got out of the Catholic religion, made himself the King of Religion in his country and tried to make all the Catholics in England convert to the Church of England - a lot of people were murdered for not changing over as it was deemed treacherous not to obey Henry.\n\nThe irony of the whole protestant England thing was that in Germany a monk name Martin Luther was trying to lead reforms in the Catholic Church too.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther\n\nIt is a strange thing that ofter two or more people will arrive at the same idea in different ways by different methods but almost simultaneously\n\nNow we have Protestants because a man wanted a divorce - which would have been better because Henry usually cut off their heads after that and his first wife was, in a way lucky to have got away with her head.\n\nYou have a very good teacher
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It's not in the Quran.  It means that this congressman is bragging about how serious he is about not eating pork.  \nHe should've put it in another way.  It does sound rather offensive. \nIf he were to watch his wife being raped it's just as bad, if not  worse than eating pork.\nMuslim husbands are told in the Quran to respect their wives.
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That passage is talking about when you gather at The Lords Supper (communion) it helps if you read the whole passage and not just a verse in it. It was very common for people to meet and eat with eachother in fellowship and worship. There is nothing wrong with it, but when you gather together for Communion, its not to get together to pig out.
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Swine is referred to Pork (or pig) and it is forbidden in Islam. \nSome one told me a great saying..."Remember, you are what you eat"
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Pigs 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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If you lie down with dogs, you rise up with fleas?  The Bible says that God does not cast his pearls before swine, meaning that you must prove yourself worthy before knowing some divine information the Church shares with you.  That might be the Book of Mormon, I'm not sure.  I'm not very brushed up on it.  My boyfriend's family is mormon, so I hear about it.  Believe me....I hear about it.
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I think you may be confusing Jesus' ministry with your respect for animals.  I understand and respect your beliefs, but I really don't think anyone who eats an animal product is being untrue to anything Jesus taught or to Christmas.
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Hey everybody, don't you realize that Rev 'feel good' is pulling you by the legs? Next, he will talk about genetically engineered pigs with split hooves and chewing cud, so jewish people can eat it. He's just looking for arguments. Don't fall into his trap.
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In Acts 10, God lowers a sheet down in front of Peter, in the sheet is all sorts of animals, clean and unclean, God tells Peter to kill and eat them... Peter tells God he has never eaten unclean meat and God tells Peter "Everything I have created is clean" and Paul also teaches us that no food is unclean in and of itself but if someone feels something is unclean, then to them it is and we shouldnt offend them. Basically eat what you want, Jesus said its not what goes into our bodies that makes us unclean but what comes out of the heart. I think thats all the Bible needs to say in answer to the question.
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Many things... but the biblical thing is a cow chews cud, pigs don't. That is why pigs are unclean in the old testament. Also, pig poo smells a lot worse then cow poo does!
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It says don't cast your pearls before swine...You can talk to someone about God, but if they aren't receptive, then you should let it go and pray that God will open their hearts at a later time...Let the dead bury the dead, I believe Jesus told that to his disciples...I think he was saying to let the dead in spirit bury the dead in body
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Way back when the good o'l book was a written. Pork was seen as a dirty animal and shell fish had no refrigeration, both were seen as good ways of getting sick, gods will kinda stuff.
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It's against Christianity, Islam and Judaism to eat pork. people do it anyway because it taste good.\n\nkosher-The law of clean and unclean meats can be found in the book of Leviticus 11:.  Yah gave us meats that are clean or healthy for us to eat, this is what the term clean meats refer to.  Jews have created a word that many think is the proper Hebrew term  for clean meats.  This word as you may know is Kosher.  Kosher is not the Hebrew word for clean meats, it doesn't  refer to the laws of clean and unclean meats.  Kosher refers to the way the animal is slaughtered, and how to drain a majority of it's blood.  They have  Kosher pigs, in fact the state of Israel has one of the largest pig farms in the world.  \n\nLeviticus 11:7 And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.\n8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.\n\nAny animal can be Kosher as long as it's slaughtered according to the Jewish law. Just because you see Kosher on a food label does not mean that product contains 100% clean meat. All it means it that the animal used for that product was slaughter in a certain way that the rabbi's approved of.
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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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They are the followers of Satan - the unholy, unclean pig-eaters.