re: #121 Dr Lizardo

I’m pretty sure it was St. Paul that decided that Christians could eat pork, because otherwise there was no way the pagans/gentiles were going to convert - along with circumcision not being necessary - but I’ve often wondered, what’s the theological justification for it? I mean, really, I just can’t picture Jesus [as] tucking into a BLT or a ham and swiss on rye.

As I understand it, it had to do with the inapplicability of the Mosaic Law to gentiles. Paul was adamant that it was not just unnecessary, but actually wrong for gentiles to follow the Law, because it had not been given to them in the first place, and they might get the idea that it was following the Law that conferred salvation, rather than believing in Jesus’ sacrifice.