The same exact set of instructions that calls homosexuality an abomination calls eating pork and some other animals an abomination. That set of instructions is never contradicted in the NT.
Why does it call eating pork an abomination?
Pork and shellfish are designed to clean the filth of the ground/sea floor. They are like earth’s vacuum cleaner. They don’t have sweat glands, so the poison stays contained within them. When you consume that flesh you get all the filth in their tissue. It has never been considered food.
Why does it call eating pork an abomination?
For the same reason homosexuality is. Because God said so. Any reason beyond that is speculating on the text.
>My view, and that of the OT is that homosexuality and eating bacon are on the same level. I avoid both.
I understand about the pork and unclean etc. but there are degrees of sin and these two wouldn't be on the same level.
Eating pork would only go against an 'informed' or instructed conscience whereas sodomy causes a greater combustion in the mind and soul as it goes more against nature, against an uninformed conscience.
Isn't that correct?
Do you keep the Sabbath Day?
Edit: Never mind, someone else answered already. Why would God say no to eating pork?
Leviticus 11 tells us it has to do with holiness. Eating unclean animals makes us unholy in some way.
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