Question:  I would like your opinion on the belief of the Seventh-Day Adventists that it is a sin to eat pork and certain seafood.  In Leviticus chapter 11 it speaks of the clean and unclean animals.  But I just recently read in the book of Mark, chapter 7 where Jesus says that what you eat won’t defile you.  Food doesn’t come in contact with your heart, but only passes through the stomach and then comes out again.  He says that you are not defiled by what you eat, you are defiled by what you say and do.

            Donna

Answer:  Dear Donna,

            You are on the right track.  The dietary laws of the old covenant are not binding or required for Christians today – Mark 7, as you mention, is a passage that helps us understand that.  No passage in the New Testament even hints that Christians should “keep kosher”.

            In Christ,

            Greg Albrecht