This Sunday our topic will be bacon. We will be looking at the Levitical food laws and attempting to answer three questions:
1. What is the reason for the food laws?
2. Why were goats and cows OK to eat but not shrimp and pork?
3. Why is it cool to eat bacon now? Why the change?
Your homework is to read Leviticus 11. It is pretty long and not particularly interesting, so reading the first 23 verses will probably give you enough of the flavor of the passage if you can't make it through the whole chapter.
Both pork and shrimp are scavengers. They are unclean both symbolically and physically. God is also practical and wanted to keep us healthy.
ReplyDeleteChrist fulfilled the law and all things are now clean we are not clean by our actions but by our faith. The answer lies at the intersection of symbolism, practicality and faith.