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Does Mark 7 Make Pork a Sin?

Jesus relocates defilement from the plate to the heart, and Mark adds that he was declaring all foods clean. The question about pork turns on that distinction, not on a list of forbidden meats.

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Does Mark 7:14–23 Make Eating Pork a Sin?

Jesus teaches that what enters the body cannot defile a person, since food passes through and never reaches the heart. The real defilement comes from within, from the evils the heart produces.

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Leviticus 11:1–8: Why the Pig Is Called Unclean

Leviticus puts Israel's table under Yahweh's word rather than under appetite, and the pig is named unclean for a specific reason: split hoof, no cud. The passage forbids pork to Israel under that covenant without calling pigs evil or pork poisonous.

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