{"id":11580,"date":"2024-10-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=11580"},"modified":"2026-09-20T13:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T13:14:13","slug":"eating-pork-bible-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/learn\/eating-pork-bible-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Christians Eat Pork? Yes, the New Testament Lifts the Restriction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>Christians are free to eat pork. The question starts where it should, with Leviticus and Deuteronomy forbidding it to Israel plainly and twice. It does not end there. Mark reports that Jesus, in saying what does and does not defile a person, declared all foods clean; Peter is told on a rooftop in Joppa not to call unclean what God has made clean; Paul tells the Romans to stop judging one another over meals. The law was real. So is\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe Now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? 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