Question:  Dear Greg,

            How have you been eating pig when your Old Testament shows God saying not to eat pig?  As you know, Jesus (PBUH) came not to change God’s law but to fulfill it.  As you can see, eating pig is certainly a change of the “pig eating law”.  Some good Christians don’t eat pork, but about 80% of you Americans, Christians or not, know nothing but pig?  Don’t be a deceiver, give an answer.

            M. Ali

Answer:  Dear M. Ali,

            After my answer you may still judge me to be a deceiver by your criteria, but I will do so as you request.

1.      You speak of “your Old Testament.”  You also note that some “good” Christians refrain from eating pork.  Christians who accept historic and orthodox Christianity do not require part of the old covenant (old testament)—in this case the Jewish dietary laws.  Are you saying that Christians who eat pork are by definition “bad” Christians?  If so, upon what authority do you make that determination?  Or, are you saying that Christians must obey Jewish dietary laws?

2.      You also seem to have a problem with Americans—“you Americans”.  Are you saying that there are no Americans who are not “good” Christians?  Again, upon what authority do you make that judgment?

3.      Presuming you are asking for the basis of Christian logic and rationale which allows the eating of foods not allowed under the Hebrew laws (allows, but does not require—no Christian is required to eat pork, shrimp—or beef or lamb for that matter)—I will supply the same.  Mark 7:1-21 gives the Christian basis of what defiles a human being.  Such corruption comes from the heart and mind, not from what is eaten, according to Jesus Christ.  Acts 10:1-33 links the Jewish prohibition of accepting any non-Jew as a religious equal with the prohibition of certain foods, and by linking them together shows them both to be spiritually bankrupt.

            In Christ,

            Greg Albrecht