Jesus being Jewish, why the Christian faith do not follow what he did (eat Kosher, keeping Jewish Holidays,-?

Question

Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, etc. etc. -)instead of what he supposedly said?


And PLS. come up with your own thoughts,
Not 10 pages of quotations. It is meaningless to most of us in this forum

Answer 1

Yes! A quick - but mind you one of many - examples. Four tassels on you cloak. As I understand it Jesus changed a great many things, he was a Jewish reformer, and not a Christian. Just a reformer. Those things he changed like an eye for and eye - to - turn the other cheek. Shouldn't you follow the rest! Isn't Jesus a Jew? Or is it just inconvenient? Where are your Tassels Jesus worshipers? The answer resides within. Remember these are the same people who created the inquisition, the war in Iraq, and countless other atrocities - all while professing there religion of tolerance and love. Even the little things. Some moderate Christians when you tell them you don't believe in their version of religion/god/whatever will say its okay. Nevertheless they say it with such a sad tone like "ah, you poor idiot." The others just damn you to hell and tell you that meek and mild Jesus of theirs can't wait to see you burn for your non-belief. What a pathetic bunch of self righteous pricks.

Happy Hunting

Answer 2

Hmm... that is such a tricky question to answer. According to Christians, obviously this is what they think, because they see Christianity as an extension of Judaism brought by Jesus. But if you want a more objective perspective you have to consider that 1- we don't know if Jesus even existed to begin with. 2- if he did exist, we don't know if anything the Bible claimes he said or taught actually came from him. 3- Some things in the NT depends on how you interpret them. For example, if you interpret Jesus to have said he is God, that would have been completely against Jewish teachings which say God can never be born human, and a human can never be born a God. There are other disputes about how Jesus didn't follow all the Jewish laws to the letter. 4- Jesus didn't qualify to be the Jewish messiah, so none of his teachings would have really been relevant to Judaism anyway.

Answer 3

Well, for one thing and the most obvious, the Jews that are Jews today and stayed Jewish then, did not accept Christ as the Messiah. The belief that Jesus was the Christ and the Messiah, was the beginning of the Christian faith. And, again, those that did not believe that he was the Messiah stayed Jewish. So, of course, with a new religion and then new holidays. Easter, and Christmas are the main ones. Which celebrates Jesus' life and death. Jewish people use the old testament and Christians use the new testament because the NT is about the teachings of Christ.

Answer 4

If he actually lived (and honestly, I'm still waiting for that evidence), he would've been a torah observant jew. He would have kept all of the jewish holy days (and did, per the bible) and would have kept a kosher lifestyle. He is never once quoted as saying not to keep jewish law. He is quoted as having said, "I came not to destroy the law, but to fulfill it", which was a common rabbinical statement at the time. To "fulfill the law" at that time, was to bring a better understanding to it.
He is also quoted as having said that the law would not pass away until ALL had been fulfilled. Even the christians admit that he hasn't fulfilled all of the messianic prophecies and that when he returns, he will.. therefore, they are all in violation of what he said and did by not keeping jewish law.

Answer 5

The Christian faith as you know it now is obviously not a faith according to what Jesus aimed to accomplish. Christian religion was offically declared by Constantine as the empire's religion when He could no longer contain its growing threath to his kingdom. Most converts were becoming largely among it Roman citizens. Rome still strongly influenced by their mythical Gods and Godesses could not strictly follow the Old Jewish tradition. They have the inherent hatred of the Jews that is why they made all efforts to persecute the first Christians who were predominantly Jews but when they became officially the religion of the Empire, the Christians then became the oppressors and their target were the Jews who are not Christians and those who went out of the religion because of the many changes they made that resulted to the end of Judeo-Christian Tradition.
They declared Christmas to disrupt the Passover Holidays and keep away from the Sabbath observations by declaring Sunday as the day of the risen Lord and eventually remove the Saturday tradition of rest so they can continually do their businesses. The Single God for them have to be different without being accused of polytheism so they created a device by inserting three personalities in one God making it more impressive as a mystery no one should contest.
The most stupid idea is to make God go down and then took flesh to be a sacrificed for the sins against Him by people He just created. Deuteronomy 24:16, Ezekiel 18:3-26 and Jeremiah 31:29-30 will tell you that Jesus' death is not necessary for any man's sin to be forgiven.
The Most astonishing of all is the deception they made on "Lucifer" as an angel who turned rebel against God. Look for the word "Lucifer" in KJV Bible and Latin Vulgate of the Catholic and look for the word "Morning Star" in other Bibles such as NIV etc.. They can be found in Isaiah 14:12-17. Morning Star or Lucifer is not an angel but a man who want s to go up to heaven and sitted among the God's assembly. Then, visit Matthew 26:64 to know who is that man. Finally, read Revelation 22:16 to know who is the "Morning Star.".
Do you still want to know how are they different?

Answer 6

Jesus was the new beginning and all the old laws and traditions were out. I also believe the Christians did not want to be associated with the Jews and what ever the Jews practiced they did the opposite or ignored. By the way, I can't find anything about meatless Fridays in the bible. Another BS church law.

Answer 7

If I am not mistaken, there is a line drawn in the books between the two religions. The part that goes into Jesus' life is where the Jews said the Christians were crazy and the Christians said well fine we are taking our prophet and leaving. The Christians then held committees to determine what would actually get into the bible and what would be left out. It was probably chosen to be left out.

Answer 8

While Christ was on the earth, he criticized the Pharsies (not sure how to spell that) and Sadducee's for their incorrect worship methods. They had taken Gods law, and adulterated it. The Jewish law was a morphed version of God's law. Essentially, they were in an apostatized state.

Secondly, Christ fulfilled the law of the "old testament" and created a new law. Instead of 10 commandments, there were now two (love god, and love your neighbor). Things were more inside your heart than before. The old testament taught not to adulter, the new testament teaches not to lust. It's a higher, more spiritual law.

Lastly, true religion is not in it's holidays and customs. Just because you don't put up a Christmas tree, doesn't mean that you're not christian.

Answer 9

Because he brought a new dispensation (age)

The Law (you referenced it with the holidays and food laws) were being kept but not with a sincerity that God the Father wanted.

The new Law (New Testament) changed the "footing" - the Law of Grace put the pressure on the Individual to choose right, by understanding wrong, and by asking Gods help to do the very thing he was unable to do alone or through the Law.

It is laid out very clearly in Romans (the book)

Answer 10

He put an END to the law... And NO, HE WAS NOT ESSENE. While there are a handful of similarities, his teaching and the philosophy it entailed was in stark contrast to that of the Essenes.

Jesus said he didn’t come to destroy the law, but to fulfill it. (Matt 5:17) The effect was the same. Once fulfilled it was no longer in effect.

The very next verse, Matthew 5:18, LOOKS FORWARD to the time when the law WOULD BE SET ASIDE. "...Not even the smallest stroke of a pen will disappear from the Law UNTIL EVERYTHING IS COMPLETED." This “UNTIL” clause REINFORCES THE TEMPORARY NATURE OF THE LAW. It ONLY makes sense when we understand that it was intended FROM THE BEGINNING to be SET ASIDE.

On the cross, Jesus' last recorded saying, "It is finished," is an important milestone. Because of Jesus life, Satan had been defeated. The law was finished and would no longer stand between God and mankind.

Ephesians 2:15 Through his body on the cross, Christ put an END to the LAW WITH ALL ITS COMMANDS AND RULES. He wanted to create one new group of people out of the two. He wanted to make peace between them.

Colossians 2:14 He wiped out the written Law with its rules. The Law was against us. It opposed us. He took it away and nailed it to the cross.

Galatians 2:16 ...No one can be made right with God by obeying the law.

Galatians 2:21 ...What if a person could become right with God by obeying the law? Then Christ died for nothing!

Romans 3:20 So it can’t be said that anyone will be made right with God by obeying the law. Not at all! The law makes us more aware of our sin. 21 But now God has shown us how to become right with him. The Law and the Prophets give witness to this. It has nothing to do with obeying the law.

Galatians 5:4 Some of you are trying to be made right with God by obeying the law. You have been separated from Christ. You have fallen away from God’s grace... The ONLY verse that talks about falling from grace, and they did it by trying to follow the law!

The 10 commandments along with the rest of the law ("commands and rules" from Ephesians 2:15) were "set aside" when they were fulfilled or completed at Jesus' resurrection. We are no longer bound by that law.