It's because many "Christians" unfortunately don't put in the time to read or study the Bible honestly, so they are bound to subscribe to various false doctrines like the myth that Christ/Paul declared an end to the dietary law. It's all rooted around people being so attached to eating pork that they'd rather do anything except believe what the Bible says.
Hello Vid and welcome here. Being Christians, Jesus deemed all things good to eat in Acts. Except for things with the blood still in them, things strangled and food offered to idols. Christians do not and have never been under the Jewish law. That is why Christ came, to fulfill the law man could not.
There are MANY others on here who could explain this better than I, hopefully they will chime in.
God bless and lead you into ALL truth :)
Acts shows very little dialogue from Christ, and even then there isn't a single passage of dialogue from Him that declared an end to the dietary law. Your argument, though it is commonly used by Romanists to disregard scripture, has no biblical basis whatsoever for these reasons:
1.
It Was Not A "Jewish" Law
Genesis not only explicitly shows God's command concerning what was lawful and unlawful to eat being practiced, it also shows Noah didn't need God to explain the difference to him:
“You shall take with you seven each of
every clean animal, a male and his female; two each of
animals that are unclean, a male and his female;...And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him." - Gen. 7:2,5
As anyone can clearly see, it was generally understood that God consecrated certain animals for human consumption many generations before God ever mentioned it to the nation of Israel at Sinai. Jews certainly didn't invent that law because they didn't exist as a people until the northern 10 tribes rebelled against Solomon's son Rehoboam, and God never once stated anywhere that He only wanted the Jews to keep it.
2.
Christ Never Declared An End To The Dietary Law
I'm assuming here that your belief that Christ declared an end to the dietary law is based on the vision Peter was given in Acts 10. However, a closer inspection of the entire chapter shows Christ's dialogue wasn't meant to be read as him saying "Christians can eat unclean meat now" because Peter eventually understood the real message Christ was communicating to him when he met Cornelius:
"Then he said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep company with or go to one of another nation.
But God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean." - Acts 10:28
3.
Christ Fulfilling The Law Does Not Mean He Came To Diminish Its Authority
Matt. 5:17 is an often twisted and misquoted verse by people who attempt to disregard the Law. In this passage, Christ clearly said no one was to even think that His intention to diminish the Law's authority:
“
Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill." - Matt. 5:17
The Greek word "pleroo" that is translated as "fulfill" does not give any implication that Christ came to diminish the Law's authority. What it does imply is that Christ came to reveal the spiritual intent behind the Law, exactly as Isa. 42:21 said He would. Considering the Bible's plain teaching about Moses being a type of Christ and Moses enforced God's laws, it makes no theological sense whatsoever to portray Christ as being anti-Moses.
When Christ said He came to fulfill the Law, it was clearly within the context of fulfilling the messianic prophecies and symbolism that were contained in the Law. Christ accomplishing that does absolutely nothing to absolve the Christian of their responsibility to live by it, as Christ Himself said in verse 20:
“For I say to you, that
unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven."
The whole problem Christ had with the religious leaders that much like a lot of "Christians" today, those men paid lip service about how they lived by the scriptures while simultaneously disregarding everything Moses wrote when it proved to be inconvenient.
4.
The Bible Clearly Shows Gentiles Keeping The Dietary Law
Now you say Christians didn't keep this law, but an honest examination and study of the NT show why this is simply not true:
“But this I confess to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect, so I worship the God of my fathers,
believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets." - Acts 24:14
This is an undeniable statement by Paul that he still believed and practiced what was in the Law, whole years after his conversion.
“For Moses has had throughout many generations those who preach him in every city,
being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.” - Acts 15:21
That is an undeniable statement from James that says Moses was read to the Gentiles. Now if Moses was read in to Christians in the synagogues, that would obviously include instructions about which animals God designated for human consumption.
"Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry,
and commanding to abstain from
foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth." - 1 Tim. 4:1-3
This passage is especially important because Paul warned Timothy to be on guard against false teachers telling Christians to abstain from "foods which God created to be received". Now where in the Bible does it instructs someone about the foods God set apart to be eaten? The Law. So the obvious and logical implication is that Christians were instructed to keep the dietary law, otherwise they wouldn't be able to keep their guard up against people telling them not to eat clean meats!
