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Tom Steele [11/24/2015 8:25 AM]
You know that you are OK to eat pork or shellfish, but you say you are not stupid enough to eat poison? That is a contradiction, the flesh of pigs and shellfish are toxic and cause all sorts of diseases, they just kill you much more slowly than the poison frogs do. There’s not a verse in the New Testament, when context is put into play, that overrides what God commanded in His Word in the Torah. I have numerous studies that prove it in length. That’s the point of this MEME though, to show how misinterpreting the Bible happens. If this verse justifies pork, than it justifies eating the poison frogs, and if every creature is good, than no creature is to be refused. I suggest you read the study I posted above titled “Created With A Purpose.” It breaks down every word in the verse from the original Greek. You’ll be surprised to find out that this verse is about not throwing away good food, as opposed to some made up permission by God to eat toxic things,
John Kissinger [11/24/2015 8:34 AM]
yeah Timothy Carter is having some moral BBQ restrictions as well 🙂
Timothy Carter [11/24/2015 10:55 AM]
Barbecued puffer fish at the next communion supper yum yum 🙂
Tom Steele [11/24/2015 11:07 AM]
Jim Jones?
Terry Wiles [11/24/2015 12:22 PM]
Hum. Someone said something like, “Stop calling things unclean that I have cleaned.”
“Whoever said that must have not known what they were talking about and it most certainly couldn’t have come from God,” said the religious leaders.
Tom Steele [11/24/2015 12:39 PM]
Yep, He said not to call GENTILE PEOPLE unclean. Had nothing to do with actual food. Read the passage, the food is only seen in a vision, the meaning of the vision is revealed by the recipient of the vision himself, Peter, saying that God showed him not to call any man unclean.
Terry Wiles [11/24/2015 1:26 PM]
Tom, you need to read more carefully. Acts 11:2-3 clearly says that the circumcision party criticized Peter saying “you ate with them.” Then Peter explains in the following verses clearly relating it to “eating” as well as opening the door of salvation to the Gentiles. Verse 18 says after his explanation they fell silent with their criticism.
Tom Steele [11/24/2015 2:10 PM]
Yes, verse 18 also says they they saw that God granted salvation to Gentiles. Jesus ate with sinners too, in neither account does it ever say that they ate unclean meats though. Unless you can prove that Peter ate pork when he had dinner with the Gentiles that day than your argument holds no weight at all.
Terry Wiles [11/24/2015 2:14 PM]
Lol. Just eating at a gentile table would have made it unclean. Scripture presented to the Pharisees didn’t do it either. Have it your way.
Tom Steele [11/24/2015 2:22 PM]
There is a difference between Jewish kosher laws from kashrut and Clean Animal Laws from Torah.
Troy Day
Jared Cheshire Alan Alleyoop I hereby challenge all bacon lovers, ham eaters, and all who think it is OK to eat pork, shellfish, catfish, sharks, eels, rabbits, and anything else that would be considered unclean according to Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 to eat two of the most poisonous animals on the planet: The Golden Poison Dart Frog and the Puffer Fish. Their bodies are filled with poison deadly enough to kill 10 to 30 grown men. But, your faith tells you that 1 Timothy 4:4 means you can eat whatever you want. Well, the verse also says NOTHING IS TO BE REFUSED. So, if your understanding of the verse allows you to eat anything and everything, then it must also be that you are not allowed to refuse. Bon Appetit!
Brody Pope [11/23/2015 10:26 PM]
Took a second but I figured it out. My bad.
Tom Steele [11/23/2015 10:29 PM]
If you’re interested, I do have a blog that breaks down the verse in the MEME word by word
@Timothy D McCune [11/23/2015 11:36 PM]
So since I eat all those things are you saying I’m wrong? Also I’m not stupid enough to eat out right poison or do like those that pick up poisonous snakes and tempt them to bite me, I know the verse means if one of these poison were to some how be put into my body I know that my God has the power to heal me, and yes Iam free to eat pork, shell fish etc….. As Paul states you are not to judge what one man calls holy and what one deems ok to eat.
Troy Day
are you muslim? Jared Cheshire Alan Alleyoop
Jared Cheshire
Troy Day Are you going to be serious or propagate nonsense?
Pentecostal Theology
Jared Cheshire This post is NOT nonsense !!!
Jared Cheshire
Pentecostal Theology this is nonsense.
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Troy Day
Jared Cheshire Muslims do not eat bacon or any pork products because the Quran explicitly forbids the consumption of swine flesh, classifying it as impure and haram, or forbidden. This rule appears in multiple verses, such as Surah Al-Baqarah 2:173, which states that carrion, blood, and swine are prohibited except in cases of necessity like starvation. Obeying this command demonstrates submission to Allah’s will and maintains ritual purity essential for worship.​
Quranic and Scriptural Basis
The Quran mentions the prohibition four times, using terms like “rijis” to describe pork as filthy or defiling. Hadiths reinforce this, equating pork consumption with spiritual harm, such as invoking Allah’s curse similar to alcohol. These texts form the core of halal dietary laws, emphasizing only lawful and pure foods.​​
Reasons for the Ban
Pork is deemed najis, inherently unclean, compromising a Muslim’s state of tahara (purity) needed for prayers and rituals. Spiritually, avoidance tests faith and promotes discipline; practically, it aligns with health concerns like parasites (e.g., toxoplasma) and high fat content, though the primary basis is divine decree rather than health alone. Exceptions exist for life-threatening hunger, underscoring mercy in Islamic law.​​
Shared Abrahamic Roots
This restriction echoes Judaism’s Torah, where pigs are unclean for not chewing cud despite cloven hooves. Islam builds on these traditions, promoting cleanliness across body and soul for over 2 billion adherents today. By forgoing bacon, Muslims uphold a holistic lifestyle of piety and well-being
Jared Cheshire
being that there are numerous factors of why someone could choose not to eat pork, primarily being the fact that it predates Islam by 3,500 years, and is most recorded in the scriptures that you claim to support means that you’re insinuated accusation of your question is nonsense.
Also, it’s not judaism’s Torah. That’s an uneducated and unscriptural claim.