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Today, 10:48 am
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Old Testament laws
The Jewish people do not eat pork. Our Lord never mentioned that
we Catholics can eat pork. Where do I look this up or would you please
tell me what the position is? I love pork and always eat it, but my
husband is Jewish.
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Today, 10:53 am
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Re: Old Testament laws
The dietary laws of the OT are no longer binding on us because they
were fulfilled by Christ's redemptive act on the cross, which fulfilled
all the requirements of the Law.
We still observe and uphold the Ten Commandments, however because they comprise the basic moral law that God instilled in the human heart, which he reinforced by giving them to Moses. This is known as the "natural law" that we all must keep no matter what belief system we were brought up in or hold because they are universal to all human beings.
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Today, 10:55 am
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Re: Old Testament laws
Acts chtp. 15 is about the Council of Jerusalem, where the Church
determined that Gentile converts need not follow the Law of Moses.
Acts 15 5 Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to keep the law of Moses.” 6 The apostles and elders met to consider this question. 7 After much discussion, Peter got up and addressed them: “Brothers, you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe. 8 God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us. 9 He did not discriminate between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith. 10 Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of Gentiles a yoke that neither we nor our ancestors have been able to bear? 11 No! We believe it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are.” I would also read Paul's Epistles. Most of them have at least a little explanation about how we are made right by our Faith in Christ, not by obedience to the Law of Moses, which brings only death. Paul's Letter to the Romans is the most complete theological summary. His letter to the Galatians hits on the same topic, and is more readable, IMO.
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Today, 12:01 pm
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Re: Old Testament laws
There is also Mark 7:14-23:
14 And he called the people to him again, and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand: 15 there is nothing outside a man which by going into him can defile him; but the things which come out of a man are what defile him.”[g] 17 And when he had entered the house, and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable. 18 And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside cannot defile him, 19 since it enters, not his heart but his stomach, and so passes on?”[h] (Thus he declared all foods clean.) 20 And he said, “What comes out of a man is what defiles a man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, fornication, theft, murder, adultery, 22 coveting, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. 23 All these evil things come from within, and they defile a man.”
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