Why do Christians ignore the original jewish laws?

Question

Home come christians completely disregard the fact that Jesus was jewish? The pastor in church quotes out of the old testament all the time, but I don't notice him not eating pork, or keeping to many of the jewish laws quoted in the old testament that Jesus actually followed. Jesus was a practising jew, and it is qouted many times that he followed those traditions spoke about in the old testament.

My questions is, how come christianity has picked and choosed what it would like to follow? If you're going to be dedicated and believe in Jesus as lord, why not follow the rules he followed?

It very specifically states these rules in the old testament, but I don't notice those passages ever been mentioned in church. Just wonder what your thoughts on this are.

The pastor in church quotes the old testament all the time? Why not quote the laws of Moses where he discussed the 10 commandments and then the jewish laws of food, marriage, etc...

Okay, so If I understand what you are all saying, God changed his mind when he sent Jesus here? He told us one things and then later said it no longer mattered what he said before?

Answer 1

This is a good question. Christians just pick and choose what to believe out of the old testament. They use the excuse that Jesus's death nullified lots of the old testament. If this is so, they should get rid of the parts that don't apply anymore instead of keeping them in their Bible. They still keep the Ten Commandments though for obvious reasons.

Answer 2

You can blame this on the Roman Catholic church, somewhere around the second or third century AD. Previous to that time, Christianity was considered a Jewish sect. In particular? It began to diverge over the issue of circumcision.

Back then - circumcision had the potential of being a life or death situation. There were no anti-biotics. And people actually died from being circumcised as adults. It was the adults who were at risk. Circumcision of babies, by contrast, seemed to have few health risks.

The Roman Catholics also incorporated the beliefs of other religions during this time, most notably the druids. This is where you get Christmas and Easter from. Neither one have anything to do with Christ. They were both considered Pagan holidays, until they were incorporated into Christianity.

The Roman Catholic church ALSO decided to pick and choose which parts of the Torah they would incorporate into their Old Testament. Although they are similar - the Jewish Torah and Old Testament are not identical. Numerous sections of the Torah have been deleted from the Old Testament, and other parts have been mistranslated.

A number of my Jewish friends tell me, that "thou shalt not kill" should be more properly translated as "thou shalt not murder". That's a big difference. And yet it has been used by conscientious objectors, to avoid going to war.

This ALSO explains why there has been so much anti-Semitism by the Catholic church, down through the centuries. The Popes basically picked and chose what parts of the Torah - and the dozen or so New Testaments - to believe in. And the Jews were a constant reminder to them - of just how far off course from the original documents - the Catholics actually were.

On another note . . .

There is no evidence - outside of the Bible - that Christ ever existed. And no proof whatsoever that God exists. And as far as I'm concerned? The entire thing is about apples and oranges anyway, and you can pretty much do whatever you want.

Answer 3

I can tell from your question that the Holy Spirit is comforting you. Your question, filled with truth that only a few will ever see.

Why do Christians ignore the original jewish laws? This is how your question starts out. Notice you used the word Christian instead of religious people. You also said the original Jewish Law.

When Moses came down from God's Holy Mountain who did Moses present the Law to? He presented the Law to God's Covenet People. All the twelve tribes, not just to the tribe of Judah.

10 Commandments. These Commandments are the Law. They are not hard to follow or to preform when you put God first in your life.

Jesus, the Son of God. God's Word. God Himself in the flesh did not do away with the Law, no He came to fulfill the Law. Jesus Christ, the annointed of God did not change anything of the Law. Nothing. We are to follow each Commandment just as they were presented to us the first time.

Many people today confuse religion with Christianity. Its like water and oil. They do not mix at all. When a person accepts Jesus Christ as Lord, that person is a new creation in the Annointed of Christ. The Law in now part of them. No longer confused but enlighten.

Christians for the most part don't sin everyday. Sin, they know separates them from God. When this happens, they are mindfull of this change and need to repent to again be back in the Grace of God.

So now the real answer is that the churches with all their denominations are the teachers of what they want their people to believe in and do.

Christians do not pick and choose. They follow all the Commandments.><>

Answer 4

I've wondered that myself. But you have to remember that there are so many denominations, and cultures with their own personal ideals within these - I kind of think that that age-old laws and rules have been slowly diluted over time. Like in the UK, the church of England was created as a sub-division of catholicism by that fat cat Henry VIII; a new denomination that allowed him to divorce. Maybe it's small changes like this that have managed to result in almost complete disreguard for the traditional rules, that people now do not feel fit into their everyday lives.

Then again, I don't think that people forget that Jesus was a Jew - they just remember that the jews killed him in the end for suggesting something a little extreme. Although it was meant to be, Christians aren't going to follow the exact routines and teachings of those who ultimately murdered their leader, are they?

Answer 5

Gentiles never were under the Mosaic Law, only the Israelites. Christ when he died brought to an end the Mosaic Law and now we live under the Law of the Christ which is love, Matthew 22:37 " 'You must love Jehovah your God with your whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole mind.' This is the greatest and first commandment. The second, like it, is this, 'You must love your neighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments the whole Law hangs, and the Prophets." Even though it is not necessary to follow the Mosaic Law to gain salvation somethings are still Ok to do if you wish like not eat pork if you chose or other types of meat such as Ostrich, some people chose not to eat shellfish etc, but it is not necessary to gain everlasting life. Of course the 10 commandments are good to follow and if you fullfill the two commandments that Jesus Christ gave us, you would not be breaking any of the 10 commandments, example; if you love Jehovah your God with all your heart, soul, and mind, you would not be committing idolatry or if you love your neighbor as yourself you wouldn't be committing adultry, or committing murder, or stealing,etc. Get the idea. The two commandments that Christ gave us would cover everything. The Hebrew Scriptures(Old Testament) are still beneficial just as it states at 2 Timothy 3:16,17 All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness, that the man of God may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work. 1 Corinthians 9:11 Now these things went on befalling them as examples, and they were written for a warning to us upon whom the ends of the system of things have arrived. You can see that everything is written as an example for us, how God dealt with people good and bad so that we could learn from the things written, Old Testament and New Testament.

Answer 6

Because at His death on Calvary, He completed the LAW. When we became free from the law as Paul teaches, it can no longer be our focus. Jesus and loving our neighbors and reaching out to others is now our focus. The LAW cannot be a focus in a believers life, WE have far to much work at hand. Christ also said that when the Holy Spirit comes He would write His laws on our heart. We know if we are born again the difference in right and wrong and it is etched on the tables of our hearts.

God Bless

Rob

Answer 7

Christians have always been exempt from Jewish dietary law and other Jewish laws because most of us are gentiles. This posed a problem for the early church, too. If you go to Acts 15 and read along, you'll see they were dealing with the same thing. In Acts 15:29, you'll see only four things the gentile Christians were asked to observe. We're to refrain from sexual immorality, and to refrain from eating meat sacrificed to idols, eating meat from strangled animals, and from eating blood.

In fact, I'd suggest you read through the whole book of Acts. It will explain a whole lot. It's not that long and is pretty exciting reading. Read it like a story, though, and not like a study.

Answer 8

First of all, we're Gentiles, not Jews. Secondly, lots of Christian churches are New Testiment churches, but that doesn't mean that we don't beleive the Old Testiment, it just means that things have changed. For example, in the Old Testiment people had to offer burnt sacrifices to God, but then Jesus died for everone's sins and became the ultimate sacrafice. Also, not all Christians disregard the fact that Jesus was a Jew.

Answer 9

I think that the points of Christs teaching was that the laws had become mored important than religion which basically is doing good to your fellow man. The point is that the rules and laws of a religion should not undermine the true nature of religion,of love and kindness. This has become true of most religions over the centuries even Christianity

Answer 10

Because as I understand it, Jesus was the fulfillment of the old law. Those laws existed as the only way for the jewish people to absolve their sins and go to heaven. The crucifixion of Jesus substitutes for all those old requirements. The only reason those old laws were necessary was because people were in a state of sin, and they had to obey those laws to absolve that sin.

Jesus brought the state of grace. Instead of sacrificing animals, Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice, and he became the conduit to heaven rather than acts.

I'm not really a Christian though, so maybe I should defer to someone more knowledgable.