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    Posted: 29-Dec-2006 at 20:53
The answer to your question has more to do with simple biology than religion.
When a sheep is slaughtered and the hide is removed a film is left covering the meat. In any dry climate this film becomes waxy and protective against bacteria easily entering the meat and the meat remains wholesome just by simply keeping flies away and in the shade.
A pig needs to be processed differently. It is nearly impossible to skin or remove the hide from a pig if you do there will be just raw meat without any natural protection.
Piglets are a different story, Since the domestication of the pig and the development of fire whole young pigs were spit roasted--and eaten skin and all and once roasted/smoked the meat is less apt to become invaded by bacteria ??
    
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"I do not nullify the grace of God; for if justification were through the law. then Christ died to no purpose."
-Galatians 2:21
 
"Christ has obtained a ministry which is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion for a second."
-Hebrews 8:6-7
 
"You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. For through the Spirit, by faith, we wait for the hope of righteousness. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any avail, but faith working through love."
-Galatians 5:4-6
 
"But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we serve not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit."
-Romans 7:6
 
"Our competence is from God, who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not in a written code but in the Spirit; for the written code kills, but the Spirit gives life."
-2 Corinthians 3:5-6
 
"And he called the people to him and said to them,"Hear and understand: not what goes into the mouth defiles a man, but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man."
-Matthew 15:10-11
 
 
  I believe its Ok to eat pork or anything else you wish to eat. Most people are probably asking by now "But I though Jesus reaffirmed the prophets that came before him", Well, he did. Jesus reaffirms the Moral codes that were passed down to Moses and the prophets that came before him but what(I believe) he did not reaffirm were the ritual observances such as not eating pork. For these ritual observances will not gain you the Kingdom of Heaven. But only the grace of the Lord and fith working thru love.
 
For instance when the men brang up the woman to Jesus who had committed adultery what did Jesus say. "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone". Now, it would have been justified by the old law to stone the woman.
Jesus reaffirms the moral codes when he is asked what is the most sacred commandment? He says to love your God with all your heart and to love your neighbor.
If one believes pork to be unclean let him not eat it but if he permits it clean than once again,.....it is to no avail.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Be a servant to all, that is a quality of a King.
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