"As a matter of interest, do you adhere to the dietary laws as detailed in the Old Testament?" asks Brendan of Pete 7*.

In fact, these teachings and rules were superseded on more than one occasion in the New Testament by God or Jesus declaring that those creatures had been cleansed after all; e.g. --

(Acts 10:9-16) . . .The next day as they were pursuing their journey and were approaching the city, Peter went up to the housetop about the sixth hour to pray. 10 But he became very hungry and wanted to eat. While they were preparing, he fell into a trance 11 and beheld heaven opened and some sort of vessel descending like a great linen sheet being let down by its four extremities upon the earth; 12 and in it there were all sorts of four-footed creatures and creeping things of the earth and birds of heaven. 13 And a voice came to him: "Rise, Peter, slaughter and eat!" 14 But Peter said: "Not at all, Lord, because never have I eaten anything defiled and unclean." 15 And the voice [spoke] again to him, the second time: "You stop calling defiled the things God has cleansed." 16 This occurred a third time, and immediately the vessel was taken up into heaven.

... so not really a fair & applicable question.

I am of Brendan's opinion re the rest of his post, mind!

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