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Actually, Christian depends on the temporary nature of a vast majority of the law. There are various mechanisms to handle it from Supercessionism to Dispensationalism. The bottom line, whole portions of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy are religated to the dustbin, having no "application" for Christians. For instance, Leviticus 11 which you brought up. No eating blood - how about no eating pig, shellfish, etc.?

In this particular instance, the "bait and switch" comes in Acts 10-11, with further reference to Mark 7, where most Christian dogma ERASES the very commandments of Leviticus 11 as if they did not exist. The very idea that the Almighty issues an eternal command and later at a whim recinds it for "theological" reasons is the reason for my "bait and switch" comment. As you must note, I hold that all of the Word of G-d is both operable, and profitable and that no part - NO PART - has become "fufilled" (where the word "fulfilled" in modern Christian venacular means ABOLISHED, NO LONGER FUNCTIONING). Pleroo from Matthew 5:17 does not mean "fulfilled" it means "fully operable."

Well, you've touched on some topics I know almost nothing about (Supercessionism, Dispensationalism, and other competing Protestant theological approaches.) And to be honest, I have little interest in them.

I try to keep these teachings close to my heart:

(Matthew 22:34-40) Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

And this:

(Romans 13:8) Owe no man anything but to love one another, for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the whole law.