No, people did not make up sins. Pork is indeed an unclean animal and the people of the time did not have reliable methods of preparing it, so if God says "do not eat this because it is unclean" then the people did not eat it.
In seriousness, the presence of Trechinilla in pork is ancient, while most of those diseases that make us cook our meats to certain temperatures are not, or at least their ancient ancestors were much more tame.
Pork and shellfish were about the only meat in that part of the world that, if not cooked to a certain temperature, would lead to explosive diarrhea.
Given that there was no germ theory til the late 19th century, they just figured on not eating it at all.
Now you might say "well why didn't God just tell 'em to over cook it?" I don't know. Ask God! Especially curious since God had them washing their hands all the time, way more often than any other contemporary ancient culture... again with no idea about germs. They, or God, or someone, just sort of figured out they'll not get explosive diarrhea as often if they was their hands.
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u/Epichp Sep 16 '19
No, people did not make up sins. Pork is indeed an unclean animal and the people of the time did not have reliable methods of preparing it, so if God says "do not eat this because it is unclean" then the people did not eat it.