I should have brought my Bible to work - very little for me to do today! I could have studied more!

I think the main thing that struck me in the article was the laws BEFORE the old covenant and AFTER the new - for example, disobeying God's word was clearly a no-no (see the Fall), killing a no-no (Cain KNEW he wasn't a good boy by killing Abel), meat was clean and unclean, even if Noah didn't know which was which then it would have been explained then or just two lists, those animals to come in twos and those in sevens. Fornication was also wrong (although Lot was just after the old covenant I think... aaaaagh I know he went with Abram, was that when it started, Abram listening to God's word and moving, or was that when Abram became Abraham or was it with Jacob... you know, I need to go back to Genesis and start again I think!).

Then I thought, well, if the early Christians didn't do it, why? Was it just a hang-over of the old laws? After all, Paul said that only eating blood was wrong, nothing else. Was it that it was taken as read it continues and therefore just not mentioned specifically?

The point that Jesus wouldn't waste fish but would do pigs was a good one, but that was before the new covenant because he hadn't been sacrificed for us yet, so therefore invalid IMO.

I'll need to re-review the letters from that article too, but for now I'm finding it hard to avoid piggie things while shopping (poor DH, he hasn't realised yet)! It's everywhere! Which then led me to think that it is wrong because if it were OK then Satan wouldn't be pushing piggie on every single meaty product you can buy - but then I'm a bit paranoid about demons and temptation sometimes. But just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean Satan's not out to get me!