Do you as a Christian keep Kosher?

Question

why or why not? What other parts of the bible do you willingly disobey and teach other to do the same by your example? How do you pick the laws you are going to keep and enforce on others, and the one's that you are going to break or ignore>

amazing how many people don't even know their own bibles......Just because most christians don't keep Kosher doesn't mean the dietary laws are not in their bible...

Answer 1

AMEN! I have had this battle with many christians I know. Just because it was in the Old Testament doesn't mean it shouldn't still be followed-as you said-it was a dietary law, like any other law given to us by God, a law that was followed in the New Testament as well. And all of a sudden we don't ahve to follow it anymore?? I dont think so. Just like keeping the Sabbath, or 7th day holy...how many christians do that these days? if you're going to fully commit you life to God-fully commit, don't pick and choose waht suits you.

Answer 2

I don't know how the rest do it, but I spin the Wheel of Persecution each week to select the sin whose violators I plan to harass for the next seven days.

Actually, if you check out Acts (chapter 15, I think) you will find info about the Council of Jerusalem, the very first ecumenical council in the history of the Christian Church. You will find that, after much prayer, discussion, and debate, the church declared that gentiles (i.e., non-Jews) were not subject to the Law and did not have to convert to Judaism in order to profess faith in Jesus Christ. The apostle Paul, incidentally, was the major supporter of this decision, as he had spent much of his adult life spreading the message of Jesus to non-Jews throughout the eastern Mediterranean.

Today, since an overwhelming percentage of the Christian population is gentile, they are not subject to the Hebrew Law. The Council enjoined gentile believers to observe some dietary restrictions and to abstain from sexual immorality, but the rest of the law had (and has) no hold over them.

Answer 3

I Keep Kosher And I a Christian. I keep Torah too.

Answer 4

As a vegan, I keep kosher. If you would pay attention, it was the first diet given to Adam. Also notice that the life span of men became much shorter after they were given permission to eat clean meats. God never gave us permission to eat unclean animals.

Answer 5

I thought that Jesus, Peter & Paul settled this question already. Alll three expressly said that the kosher laws of Moses do not apply under the new covenant.

If you are going to give Bible lectures, you might want to become more familar with the subject matter.

(Actualy I suspect that this might be a trick question because your arguments are so easy to rebut. You are just "baiting" Christians will silly questions, aren't you?).

A few examples:

Mark 7 (NIV)
Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, "Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. Nothing outside a man can make him 'unclean' by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him 'unclean.' "

After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable. "Are you so dull?" he asked. "Don't you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him 'unclean'? For it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body." (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods "clean.")

He went on: "What comes out of a man is what makes him 'unclean.' For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and make a man 'unclean.' "

Romans 14
As one who is in the Lord Jesus, I am fully convinced that no food is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean. If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother for whom Christ died.

Acts 10
About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles of the earth and birds of the air. Then a voice told him, "Get up, Peter. Kill and eat."
"Surely not, Lord!" Peter replied. "I have never eaten anything impure or unclean."

The voice spoke to him a second time, "Do not call anything impure that God has made clean."

This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.

Answer 6

I try to keep Kosher. I dont follow any man made religion just God

Answer 7

Um, it's Jewish people that hang out at the kosher scene. Wow.

Answer 8

I keep Kosher...


Then again I am Jewish so I guess that dose not count ;)

Answer 9

As the founder of Christianity I don't eat pork.

Answer 10

No, i Don't. Jimbob covered the rest.