followed strict dietry and jewish law,can you imaging jesus and his followers sitting down to dinner ,first course of oysters followed by a suckling pig on the spit,I DONT THINK SO,so why dont you do the same,also no form of work on the sabbath,
2006-09-25 11:34:41 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
3 replies and still no answers
2006-09-25 11:40:31 · update #1
and please dont quote from the new testament as it is totally irrelivent to the question,as at the time of jesus there was no new testament.
2006-09-25 11:42:32 · update #2
what is wrong with you people ,you cant answer a simple question without quoting from the new testament,as i said the n/t is irrelevent ,you know it and i know it too.
2006-09-25 11:49:19 · update #3
You're right. The Christian Bible paints Jesus as a basically observant Jew, who told his Jewish followers to be the same.
He was an orthodox Jew from the West Bank.
2006-09-26 15:24:11 · answer #1 · answered by mo mosh 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You obviously haven't read the Bible very closely. When Jesus and the disciples are criticized for doing work, even healing on the sabbath, what was his answer to guys just like you? The sabbath was meant for man, not the other way around. It's lawful to do good on the sabbath, such as care for the sick or retrieve a lost animal, and it's lawful to gather grain for food. Jesus points out that He is Lord of the sabbath.
We have no specific teaching from Jesus on keeping kosher, but Jesus was not a strict Jew as we see in whom he associates with, in whose house he stays, who he talks to. We have the Apostle Paul clearly setting aside the dietary restrictions, and Paul's writings have been considered authoritative from the earliest days of the church.
Other than the "British Israelite" cult of Herbert W. Armstrong, I never hear any Christian making these scripturally unsound arguments.
2006-09-25 11:45:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes jesus was a jew
but jesus also noticed that jewish people were looking at religion and believes in another way than the way God wanted it to be
jewish people were living to a very strict law, basically thinking people live for the law
when actually the law lives for the people
jesus wanted to bring the true meaning of religion and believe back into the spotlights n that is being tolerant and caring to your loved ones and basically every1 around u
why dont u just accept that some people find that religion isnt about resting on sabbath and going to church, religion is about believe and feelings, not about some silly rules
2006-09-25 11:41:56 · answer #3 · answered by fairy_without_boots 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The new testament is a reporting of what Jesus did while He was on earth. So unless you want to be stubborn and not listen...which may be the truth of it....Jesus was often scolded by the hypocritical Pharisees of the time for doing such things as (1) healing on the sabbath, (2) not doing ceremonial handwashing, etc. He said, it's not what goes into a man's mouth that defiles it, but what comes out of it.
Something for you to consider?
2006-09-25 11:46:17 · answer #4 · answered by christian_lady_2001 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't deny that he was a Jew and was born under the law. He came to fulfill the law and he alone kept the laws with perfection as only God could. He also fulfilled the Sabbath as the Lord of the Sabbath. To rest in the Lord is to cease from our own works of righteousness and he is our Sabbath rest.
I don't know what you are talking about with the oysters and pigs on a spit. Of course he would have kept the laws seeing he was a Jew born under the law but you overlook that the Lord lowered a sheet in signifying all manner of beast and the Lord said take and eat. Peter said he would not for he had never ate anything unclean. It is obvious from Peter's response there were "forbidden" beasts to have partaken of. The Lord told Peter, how dare you call unclean what I call clean. Just as the Sabbath was literally fulfilled in Christ who became our righteousness, he had cleansed us from all our sins and no one dare say of whom God calls clean to call them unclean.
Christ was born under the law to free us from the curse of the law. He fulfilled the law and by his blood he bought in the New Testament, the law of love.
2006-09-25 11:47:01 · answer #5 · answered by parepidemos_00 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
People reference the new testament because it is the only recorded document that was written about Jesus, near to the time of His life. According to the gospels, which were written about Him, Jesus said that it is okay to eat any kind of meat because it was created by God. And I know that Jesus was a Jew. But his life/death/ressurection changed things. .
2006-09-25 12:13:09 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Of course He was a Jew.
Jeremiah chapter 31 verses 31-34: 'Behold days are coming,' declares the Lord, 'when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,' declares the Lord. But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,' declares the Lord, 'I will put my law within them, and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. And they shall not teach again each man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,' declares the Lord, 'for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.'
2006-09-25 11:44:01 · answer #7 · answered by pops 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jesus fulfilled the old jewish law and set it aside. It is no longer of any effect.
Only the new covenant church, which Jesus personally founded, now has the authority to make religious rules.
The rules you mentioned are no longer.
2006-09-25 21:08:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I do not think that the fact Jesus was a Jew is in dispute. However in the NT which Jews do not recognize, in the book of acts, God tells peter to eat from a table filled with many of the items reviled in the OT. He refuses because of them being unclen. God then tells him,"What I have cleansed, let no one call unclean."
2006-09-25 11:40:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
HE was a Jew but he Believed in him self did he not?I am the way the truth and the life no one comes to the father except through me.-Jesus
2006-09-25 11:46:10 · answer #10 · answered by sonoftheKing 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋