I was trolling through this thread thinking about wisdom, and righteousness, and it occurs to me, why do Christians eat bacon?
Think this thru with me...
If you are Christian (believe in Jesus), then you believe he is the savior as foretold in the Jewish prophacies... so by definition you must first believe in the Jewish prophacies as well (otherwise how could he be your foretold savior). In other words, in theory, you believe in the Jewish religion and then ON TOP OF THAT you believe in the coming of your foretold savior...
And... I'm not aware that Jesus ever taught "Now that I'm here, you can ignore all the rules from before," because even he himself and all his diciples still practiced the Jewish faith, and he is the leader and example, no?
Which brings me back to my original question...
How come Christians eat bacon?
Not passing judgement, just throwing out theoretical possibilities...
1. There is no one universal truth, and religion is a buffet from which you can pick and choose what's convenient, which goes against all the "you'll be damned if you don't beleive like me" discussions.
2. Followers are ignorant of their requirements, having not really studied their religion so much as just do what everyone else is doing... which just might leave you still in the damned catagory quite possibly.
3. It doesn't really matter, because its all made up anyway (but that can't be true because it doesn't say that in the Bible ANYWHERE).
4. Bacon is THAT good, that it's even worth eternal suffering.