Originally Posted by
allodial
Conceivably, the outer law against eating pork could be 'inwardly' akin to avoiding making bad doctrine part of your life paradigm (i.e. consuming unclean things) and/or avoiding unhealthy speech patterns. More important than fighting conventional wars, though spiritual warfare can be real and is no joke, it seems more important to overcome such 'inner enemies'. I do believe that the physical world is a blessed part of the inheritance rather than only the spiritual.
Perhaps they are merely part of a greater filtering process: separation of the light from the darkness.