Why Christians don't follow Jewish Laws?

Question

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?

If christianity chooses not to follow the original laws (which Jesus did), then how come they are still published in all the versions of the old and new testament? I think Christianity made its own interpretation and kept the laws that they liked, and dropped the ones they didn't (like eating pork for example) It just seems hypocritical. if you're going to have beliefs, don't pick and choose, follow all the testaments printed or don't print them.

Answer 1

Yep, that's how it's been explained to me (in more poetic terms) by Christians. Sounds like you have a good grasp on the situation.

But what I don't understand is that God is supposed to be infallible, so if he changed his mind, isn't that like saying that earlier he made a mistake? So he is fallible?

Answer 2

Well, I would say that Christians are followers of Christ. The Judio Law makes no room for Jesus, because they are still
looking for the Messiah. When the Old Testament is a revelation of Jesus coming through the lineage of King David.
The Jewish religion does not accept Jesus as the Messiah, correction, not all. There are some Messianic Jewish Religious people who accept Jehovah Yahweh and their deliver, which is just another name for Jesus Christ.

Answer 3

Why don't Jews follow the Christian laws either? Why doesn't the muslim follow the catholics and the catholics follow the muslims? God never changed his mind. Its in the jewish gospels of the old testament that a messiah was going to come. It was prophesied in the old testament and fulfilled in the new testament. He never even said what God said in the old testament did not matter anymore but in fact - he just "updated" it into a more simpler form.

Answer 4

Jesus did not change “the Jewish law”. He came to fulfill the law!

Jesus said that the two “first and foremost commandments are: to love God with all your being and above all “things”, and to love our neighbour – even if that neighbour is your enemy! Those two are the basis for all other laws. All of God’s “laws” are based on those two. Any interpretations deviating from those two are invalid.

The trouble is that we look for “justifications” for our actions in certain situations, when we believe it is too hard to follow those two basic laws, or seems not “realistic” or "logic" or “real life”.

Our laws are established to protect us from each other. Following God’s law protects us from ourselves, from loading our conscience with guilt, and it protects others from our offences.

Failing to love the other or God is an offence = sin.

If Christians or Jews think and act willingly according to those two basic laws they are fulfilling it. Unfortunately we – and “religions” - are not perfect and mistakes are made.

We always need to strive to go back to the basics.

Love is the answer – whatever the question.

Answer 5

OK. you ask for it. what you call Jewish law was under the old testament{covenant} but that was a temporary covenant, where to cover their sins the Hebrew children were to kill an unblemished sheep each year to cover their sin, even the Jews do not do that any more. but Jesus was sent to be the unblemished lamb for the sacrifice of all for all time. the old law was and is a good guide line for all to follow, however when God sent peter the vision while he slept on the roof, he showed peter all the unclean animals and told peter to rise and eat, to which peter replied, lord i have never eaten only thing unclean, and God replied do not call that which I have cleanse unclean. Christians take this as God saying that those animals were now clean to eat. when those animals were classified as unclean, they did not have proper cooking practices and pork needed to be cooked fully.

Answer 6

God did not change his mind on anything. He completed what he was doing and moved on to the next step.

If you look at the 613 old testament laws, they are divided into four major section: moral laws ("thou shalt not"), sacrifical and ritual laws (burnt offerings, passover, etc), social laws (dealing with property damage, accidental death or injury, etc.) and sanitation laws (not touching bodies, going outside the city to do bathroom things, dietary laws, etc.)

The moral laws remain in effect. Read scriptures like Ephesians 5:23-26 and 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 to name just a couple of the list. Nothing as "changed" there.

The social laws should still be in effect. People should still be fined for injuring someone, etc. But because the government, not the church, currently sets the laws, some of them are not enforced. Not God's fault.

The sacrifical laws have been fulfilled by the sacrifice of Christ. They were only "shadows" or prophecies of what Christ would do has the sacrifical lamb, or the sin offering, etc. Because they have been fulfilled, they are no longer needed. Christians can do them if they want (such as I have enjoyed the Passover in the past), but are not required to keep them. Since they have been cleansed by Jesus, they do not need to be cleansed by rituals any longer.

The sanitation laws remain in effect, in that people still should not handle dead bodies, should "bury" or "flush", avoid contact with blood, etc. The difference is that because we are cleansed spiritually by Jesus, those things not longer make use "spiritually" unclean. But are still a danger to the body. So while eating certain foods not longer make a person "spiritually" unclean, it can still make them sick and should be avoided.

So they laws have not been changed. They have been fulfilled. And God has moved on to the next step in his plan, which is getting people reborn by faith in Christ.

Answer 7

Jesus came to fulfill the Old Testament. Remember, Jesus did try to talk to the Jewish people but they rejected him as the Messiah. They challenged him by asking if he is the Christ, where is Elijah? Accordingly, Elijah was suppose to make an appearance before the coming Christ.

Anyway, Christians supplemented the Jews as the chosen people.

Answer 8

I read the bible and realised it consists of 2 parts. The old testament and the new testament (NT). The old testament (OT) is the time before Jesus came. In the OT, the relationship between God and man is that of master servant. In the NT, it became Father and child. Between the 2, NT is better than OT because it elevates the relationship and hence love between God and man. As such, Jesus preached about things that were unheard before his time like "Love your enemy" Jewish laws were for the OT, but they were not abolished in the NT. Even Jesus said he didn't come to abolish them but only to create something better. In the end, Jesus himself was the sin offering and through him, man can receive repentance and draw near to God. In OT, in order to receive forgiveness, man has to sacrifice animals.

My understanding is that...

God didn't change His mind but He planned according to the times. In NT, faith in Jesus was the key because Jesus set the condition for repentance. Thus it was only through Jesus alone that one can receive forgiveness. It would then be futile to sacrifice simply animals for the same issue.

Answer 9

The question is which laws are you referring to? The Mosaic law or GOD's Law? There is a difference. GOD put HIS Law on stone, whereas, Moses wrote his laws on paper.

GOD's Laws are universal and permanent, Mose's laws are temporary.

Deuteronomy 31:24 “And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,
25 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,
26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.”

Deuteronomy 4:13 ”And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
14 And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.”

2 Kings 21:8 ”Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.”

2 Chronicles 33:8 ”Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.”

Answer 10

the law was fullfilled through Jesus. he was the perfict sacrifice so we need to believe in him and we are forgiven. God originally Gave 10 laws but the people broke them while moses was talking to god. the tabanacle was a picture of what jesus was going to do and so were the sacrifices that the jews had to make. in acts god shows peter "unclean"animals and tells him to eat them when peter refuses God tells him not to call un clean what he has made clean

Answer 11

God laws for perfection have always been the same. Before He wrote them on the stone tablet for Moses, they were His law and they will be for time eternal.

God's penalty for breaking His law is death. Man could not keep the law, so God allowed man to make animal sacrifices to die in his place for when he broke God's law.

Then God sent Jesus to live among us. He alone kept the law. He lived His life without breaking a single one, and He was tempted, just like we are.

Then He took His perfectly lived life and gave it as an offering to God to pay our death penalty for OUR sins.

Do we have to keep the Law to go to Heaven? No. No one but Jesus ever has. Would we be stupid to ignore the Law? Yes. Because it was written in love for our benefit. So, as Christians, we strive to keep the Law of God as closely as we humanly can.