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I regularly read from New Living Translation, but for study I prefer the Septuagint and a KJV.

The Septuagint is easily 800 years older than the Masoretic text. I think the KJV is great for the NT for for the OT there are some pretty stark differences.

I regularly read from New Living Translation, but for study I prefer the Septuagint and a KJV. The Septuagint is easily 800 years older than the Masoretic text. I think the KJV is great for the NT for for the OT there are some pretty stark differences.

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Wait, are you saying that eating bacon is a sin or something?

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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.

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Why does it call eating pork an abomination?

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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.

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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.

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Leviticus 11 tells us it has to do with holiness. Eating unclean animals makes us unholy in some way.

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Eating unclean animals is something we are specifically told not to do in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14. In Isaiah, God has some very negative things to say about swine eaters. Just search for the word "swine" in the KJV and it will come right up. It's end times prophecy about judgement of swine eaters.

Giving up pork has been difficult.