Since Jesus and his disciples were practicing Jews, they would have followed the kashruth laws. At some point, this practice was set aside. When was that, and what was the divine inspiration that allowed people to excuse this?
2007-07-10 03:01:32 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Timothy and Colossians were written well after the crucifixion. Kashruth was followed for some time following the death of Jesus. Using scripture to prove history is stupid.
2007-07-10 03:09:51 · update #1
Terrible answers so far - I am not looking for scriptural justification. Rather - I am looking for an historical account of when the practice was abandoned.
2007-07-12 03:25:44 · update #2
The reason for this appears in Acts 10. You can read it here, starting at verse 9:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=51&chapter=10&version=31
2007-07-10 03:09:29 · answer #1 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Peter argued against following the laws. Saul (Paul) was for continuing the tradition, along with a small contingent of the remaining 11 disciples. Peter managed to spread his ministry farther, and wider, so his tradition of being seperate from the Law of Moses won out. There were sects of Christian Jews, Messianic Hebrews who held to the law but believed in Jesus' Messianic credentials. They were all but drown out by the influx of ex-pagan (Gentile) Christians that were converted by Peter.
2007-07-10 10:07:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christ put and end to the Old Testament laws at the cross:
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. - Colossians 2:16.
Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: - 1 Timothy 4:3.
2007-07-10 10:07:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
human choice----That is why the change-
dietary rules where for our health- the original diet GOD gave us included NO meat-- Wouldn't our own creator know what was best for our bodies?
Fyi- those that say that these things were done away with-- @ the cross always with-- forget the Jesus said " I come not to abolish the laws but fulfill them......" Mathew 5:17-18
They only thing really done away with at the cross was the need to sacrifice- because Jesus was our Unblemished Lamb.
2007-07-10 10:18:02 · answer #4 · answered by darkness breeds 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus also said that it was what comes out of the mouth that defiles the body, not what goes in to it. The words you speak, not the food you eat, in other words. Because the words you speak come from the heart, and the food you eat is just temporarily in your body, right?
2007-07-10 10:34:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've wondered about this, too. But then again, Christianity has always liked to pick and choose what rules get followed (divorce, work on Sunday, etc.)
2007-07-10 10:06:26 · answer #6 · answered by wanfuforever 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
"Be more concerned what comes out of your mouth than what goes into it." --Jesus
Acts--Paul berates Peter from dining away from gentile believers.
2007-07-10 10:09:14 · answer #7 · answered by Thomas Paine 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋