If God gave Moses a perfect set of laws, why would Jesus make it okay to eat pork?

The laws of Moses were perfect...for Moses and his people. The Jews wouldn't eat pork because pigs require too much feed (which is better suited to feed humans). Eating pork was, therefore, a habit of wasteful people. Pigs in Europe, on the other hand, could fatten up on the acorns in the forests, so eating pork made more sense than eating beef.

Let us go back to the time the earth and man were created. We were not even supposed to eat animals. Genesis: 1:29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. Our bodies with the plants for food were enough to support our lives. It was after the fall of man that man is shown eating animals. That is the funny part, that even when it is stated that they should eat fruits, the first Jews even started making animal offers of fatty animal to god. Well if they understood it like that it is not surprise that after seeing the pig revolting in the mud they see it as an uncleaned animal. Jesus represent modern days mankind, He came to show us what God is really like, and to do away with many taboos. Nevertheless, as somebody said in another answer, the pork meat is one of the most contaminated animal meats, because of the way they live, they can hold bacterias and germs that are nothing to them but bad to us. It is also true about the worms in the pork that can log in our muscles flesh and even make it to the brain. Today though is not just pig but also other animals and even plants that have contamination of some sort. Even as a Christian I don't like much eating meat, or eating any food three times a day. That is why fasting is still a healthy option.

The God of Moses is Satan, John 3:14, John 1:17, John, 6:32, John 10:8, Luke 4:6 and 4:9, John 4:21-22, and Revelation 13:10-18

Razz a ma tazz! How could Jesus contradicts Himself? Ain't happening buddy. You just don't get it!

Matt 15:11 "What goes into a man's mouth does not make him 'unclean,' but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him 'unclean.' "

So tell me if you eat bacon and curse that it's burned. Which is sin? The food or the cursing.

You are mixing covenants. The Mosaic was for the Israelites to distinguish themselves from the other people. We are now under the new Covenant, the old has been fulfilled in Christ.

Great question!

If consuming pork was prohibited according to Divine Order, then Jesus would never have dared to go against that prohibition, thus incurring Almighty God's Wrath. He did not come to change the Law. As far as he was concerned, Almighty God knew best, and he left it at that. No questions asked.

I agree with you: If laws came from a perfect God, then those laws must never be changed.

Parents raising children may change the rules of the house depending on that child's level of development. There is nothing wrong with that. Paul in NT talks about the Law and its role as that of a schoolmaster until the time when God's grace in Christ was revealed. Try to contemplate these things and hopefully they will become clearer.

Whenever you see an apparent contradiction, think yourself lucky as you have an opportunity to discover some new truth about God.

Blessings.

Because even with the set of laws that where set down, the Israelites where still a stiff necked people and tended to take everything literal

Like on the Sabbath Day, if a man was caught doing something like helping out his brethren with live stock, he was stoned to death because he dared to work on the Sabbath, thus the Lord said of them they are stiff necked

But as far as eating pork was concerned, is was put down for the Israelites to follow or for those who where within the land with them

But if you also pay attention, Jesus tells you He did not come to change but to fulfill them

Jesus also stated for what goes into the body is not what corrupts but what comes out of the mouth that will corrupt you

Mt. 15 never mentions pork, or any other food. It says that a man is made unclean by what comes out of his mouth. Vs. 18 says that what comes out of the mouth is what originates in the heart, and this is where a man is made unclean. How did you come up with pork? I see no contradiction. Jesus said he didn't come to change one jot or tittle of the Law.

If you read the verse in context you would find that you are in error of your understanding.

The word “mouth” represents a person’s thought and speech or utterances, what is in the heart.

The verses in this chapter are talking about what people say and do not what they eat. You will not find any corresponding verse(s) in this chapter that refers to food but rather words and actions.

Our improvement in moral purity depends on right thinking and right acting. "Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man." "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man" read Matthew 15:11, 19 and 20

Peace and Grace

David

Jesus didn't make pork healthy. His dying only meant that we no longer have to kill a sacrificial lamb when we sin, and we no longer have to worry about ceremonial cleanliness, or the civil laws that applied to the state of Israel. Everything else stands. He only came to fulfill why those were given in the first place(to point to Him coming). Make sense?