why do christians reject the Torah?

Question

why do christians choose to ignore everything written in the first five books of moses?
Why do they choose sunday as holy day, when torah says saturday? Why do they not follow dietary laws? Why do they remain uncircumsized? why do they not observe the 613 commandaments in the torah?

Why do they pick and choose and find excuses and phoney biblical citations for everything?

Answer 1

I will respond to some of what you ask, and let others talk about other things.

In the new testament we read that the early Christians gathered on "the first day of the week" for their eucharistic celebrations, to commerate the ressurection of Jesus on Sunday. Nowhere does it say, however, that the early Christians referred to Sunday as the "sabbath" or saw it as a replacement for the sabbath. Those early Christians were Jewish, and they would have attended Jewish sabbath services on Saturday as well as Christian celebrations on Sunday. Sunday is refered to as "the Lord's Day" in the new testament, not as "the sabbath."

Soon, however, Jewish congregations expelled their Christians members. Also, Christianity spread much more rapidly among Gentiles than among Jews. As a result, Sunday was the day that remained for Christian observance. Saturday , the day for Jewish observance, was dropped as Christianity lost it's Jewish character.

Now, you could understandably argue that if Jesus is seen as the fulfillment of the Hebrew scriptures, shouldn't Christians be keeping the Jewish law, even if they are not Jewish? The early church had that very same debate. In fact, much of Paul's writing address this point (what we don't read is the view of the opposing christian voices to which he is responding). The book of Acts of the Apostles gives a summarized account of the debate, which culminated in what Christians call the Council of Jerusalem, in which it was decided that new converts to Christianity did not have to accept the law of Moses.

In reality, however, different Christian denominations today have varied beliefs about the torah. Seventh Day Adventists, for example, worship on the seventh day and honor much of the torah.

As for dietary laws, the gospels say that Jesus "declared all foods clean."

Perhaps this is a good way to look at it: just as Jews interpret the Torah in the light of the Talmud , Christians interpret the Torah in the light of the New Testament.

Naturally, we are going to disagree. Hopefully, with mutual respect.

Answer 2

Christ came not to replace the law, but to fulfill it. He came to give us the Holy Spirit of God. It is in the Spirit that the law can be truly followed, truly fulfilled. One can follow the law to the letter, and still not have the Spirit of Love. But if one has the Spirit of Love, one can follow the law in spirit and in truth. The Spirit of Love is greater than the law, and this is why the New Covenant is greater than the Old Convenant. The fruits of the Spirit are love, justice, compassion, mercy and truth. The law alone cannot bring these into the heart of a man, only God can bring these. Jesus came and taught that the law alone is not enough; the law is good, but the law is not God. First Christ must come into your heart, and then the law will follow of its own accord, a law tempered by love and mercy. When the elders caught the woman comitting adultery they came to Jesus asking that she be stoned to death as the law demanded. Jesus said "Let whoever is without sin throw the first stone", and with these words he showed us how the New Convenant is superior to the law, because it is a convenant rooted in the love, mercy, and compassion of God.

Answer 3

Judaism is not like Christianity, calling them both "religions" is reductive, actually. Judaismis a culture and way of life. Christianity is fairly portable across cultures and ways of life. Some of us take a great deal of the Torah to be outdated cultural rules specific to the Hebrews of the Bible, and some of us think those rules would have been for all tyime if the Jews hadn't messed it up and now Jesus has liberated us from the law. Most of us have a combination of the two in our minds.

There is a great deal of explanation in the epistles of Paul about this situation, for example in Romans where it talks about no longer being slaves to the law and Galatians 1 and 2 where Paul explains that Jesus' death is the final sacrifice and all observance of laws for their own sake no longer makes sense - in that case Christ died for nothing, he says.

Did you think you were the first person in history to think this charge up? You're awfully steamed up about it. I hope you feel better soon.

Answer 4

Who advised you that the Christians rejected the Torah? The Christians at the instant are not against homosexuality yet are against gay acts. in my opinion, i don't care while you're a gay or not in spite of the incontrovertible fact that that is totally commonplace that lots of the homosexuals disguise interior the closet until eventually they are married and have little ones and then they pop out, they are such cheats. the little ones of Israel are each and every of the individuals of the international apart from the Ishmaelities.

Answer 5

Because we are not under the Mosaic law, we are under grace. By the way, Jesus broke the Sabbath laws, often.

Joh 1:17 For the Law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Rom 6:14 For your sin shall not lord it over you, for you are not under Law, but under grace.

Gal 2:21 I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness is through Law, then Christ died without cause.

Gal 5:1 Then stand firm in the freedom with which Christ made us free and do not be held again with a yoke of slavery.
Gal 5:2 Behold, I, Paul, say to you that if you are circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.
Gal 5:3 And I testify again to every man being circumcised, that he is a debtor to do all the Law,
Gal 5:4 you whoever are justified by Law, you were severed from Christ; you fell from grace.

Answer 6

for christians the holy book is the new testament. where the new testament ratifies the pentateuch (or other parts of the old testament) they follow the old law. but where the new testament supersedes the mosaic code (which it does most of the time) christians follow the new law.

christians do not reject the pentateuch, they simply do not consider it their testament.

do jews reject the bhagavat gita?

Answer 7

Not being a Christan, it is difficult for me to answer that, however, I'd assume it's because it is a Jewish document. The simple fact that the Jewish and Christian religions are separate and have different beliefs, seems to be reason enough.

Answer 8

Because the Torah is the Jewish book... If you actually knew anything about the "phony Bible", then you'd know the answer to this question.

New covenant and whatnot.

Answer 9

Not reject it, don't practice it. For the law was a curse given to Moses and that generation. Christ redeemed us from that curse and we no longer live by law but by grace.

Answer 10

Its not rejected, its fulfilled. The 'laws' of the old prophets served a purpose, and that purpose is done now. Finished. Complete in Christ.
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