If Jesus was Jewish, why do so many Christians eat ham on Easter?

Question

There are an awful lot of Easter and Christmas hams. Jesus wouldn't have been able to eat the Christmas or Easter dinner.

What about the WWJD movement? What's the difference between turning the other cheek and eating by the Kosher rules.

Answer 1

So what he's not invited.

Answer 2

You probally already knew that OT food laws were removed as part of the new covenant, so ham or shrimp will be ok.

So why ham instead of scampi?

Ham is a traditional Easter food. In the early days, meat was slaughtered in the fall. There was no refrigeration, and the fresh pork that wasn't consumed during the winter months before Lent was cured for spring. The curing process took a long time, and the first hams were ready around the time Easter rolled around. Thus, ham was a natural choice for the celebratory Easter dinner

Answer 3

Jesus said that the customs and traditions of His people would not get you into heaven. Only accepting Jesus as the savior will get you into Heaven. Jesus refused to submit to the traditional washing of hands because the laws of the Jews were held over the laws of God. When He says that the old laws will be not be abolished nor changed He is referring to Moses' laws. The 10 commandments. Yes Jesus was a Jew but the Jewish people never saw Him to be the Messiah just a simple man, a carpenter.
Christians are free eat any thing we want to but glory must be given to God for providing the food.

Answer 4

We Christians can eat anything we want to now. Jesus cleansed all foods when He was here on Earth. In the New Testament, Jesus even cleansed the hoofed animals and shell fish.
God also gave man dominion over ALL animals.

Besides, Jesus would not be here to eat these dinners anyway. We started having them AFTER His death and Resurrection in celebration OF HIM....

Answer 5

Since Jesus said so many of the Jewish laws were completely wrong(an eye for an eye,stoning adulteresses to death,divorce your wife with a personal letter,give your enemy no peace,etc)perhaps he also rejected their dietary advice as well -& may have consumed prawns & ham as well---One thing is for sure---He never told his followers what to eat.

Answer 6

God would not "hate pigs". while God made pigs He appeared at them and stated they have been "solid" like all the different animals (see Genesis financial ruin a million). The prohibition on ingesting beef, and different ingredients, replaced right into a "ceremonial uncleanness" area of the numerous stuff God set as much as make the Jews a distinctive human beings consistently unsleeping of their distinction. Jesus Christ fulfilled each and all of the ceremonial purposes of thec Jewish human beings, so while He got here countless those ceremonial standards became out of date. Muslims nonetheless do no longer consume beef as a results of fact they have not realised Jesus Christ did away with this prohibition..study the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles and you will see for your self. savor your Viscount St. Albans bagel.

Answer 7

It was reveled to Peter that this was ok.

Acts 10: 9-15

9About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. 10He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. 11He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. 12It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles of the earth and birds of the air. 13Then a voice told him, "Get up, Peter. Kill and eat."
14"Surely not, Lord!" Peter replied. "I have never eaten anything impure or unclean."

15The voice spoke to him a second time, "Do not call anything impure that God has made clean."

Answer 8

It said that in the old testimante however, Jesus then says in the new testament (do not worry about what you put in your mouth such as pork anymore, but what comes out of your mouth.) He was talking about people that curse and how it effects there soul.

Answer 9

Jesus made it quite clear, according to whats recorded in the New Testament, that sticking to Jewish Law is important to salvation:

17"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. 19Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven. [matthew 17-20]

In fact, a group of early christians known as the ebionites, followed Jewish law, and believed it was obligatory to become jewish to become christian (and also rejected the idea of Jesus's divinity).

'Saint Paul' (who was declared a heretic by the ebionites) legislated according to his 'vision' of Jesus, that people do not need to follow the law, and he made christianity available to both jews and non-jews, and likewise that is why most christians after him permitted themselves to eat pork, and why many christians eat pork today.

Answer 10

Good question, i have stopped eating pig and shell fish. Maybe its part of the coruption that satan has decieved Christians into believing. We should get back to the Bible and reject all evil from our Churches and from our lifstyles.

Answer 11

Maybe to prove that they are no longer Jewish?
Maybe many Christians have never read the Old Testament.