If Jesus was a Jew, why dont Christians follow Jewish law?

Answer 1

Contrary to what some peculiar people here have said, Jesus DID practise Judaism all his life. He lived and died a practising Jew; there are references in the scriptures to his having prayed and preached in the temple/synagogue.

Jesus was only elevated to the status of 'deity' etc AFTER his death, and it was concocted by people who never even met him - such as Paul.

Christians have to somehow get round the fact that Jesus was a Jew and so now they claim he suddenly declared that Judaism was no longer relevant and that it could be set aside. What utter rubbish!

The only people now practising the religion that Jesus followed are the Jews.

TUBEROOT - so no Jews today is following Jewish law? What an astonishing statement!

Firstly, you don't even understand Jewish law - as illustrated by many of your posts on this site.

Secondly, given that I'm sure you don't know every single Jew on the planet, how can you know what they are or are not doing???

You have just revealed yourself to be extremely foolish!

CADISNEY;

'Little laws' - how very patronising. Jesus lived and died a practising Jew. I know you hate the fact, but it remains true. Deal with it!

Answer 2

The original followers of Jesus were Jews who did follow the laws.

Paul (the founder of Christianity as a religion) sought to bring non-Jews into the new faith, for which the laws (like kosher eating and circumcision) were stumbling blocks. So, Paul simply did away with them.

This was opposed to the view of James, who also welcomed non-Jews into the early Church, but first wanted them to convert to Judaism and keep the laws as Jesus himself had instructed.

It's kind of a mute point anyway. Since the Hebrew Bible only requires non-Jews to keep 7 laws anyway (non-Jews have never been required to keep laws such as kosher eating):
http://www.highcouncilofbneinoah.org/resources/Articles/A_Brief_Introduction_to_the_Noahide_Covenant.aspx

Answer 3

The answer to your question is found in Acts 15.

Gentiles were not required to become Jews first in order to become Christians second.

And remember that law was a covenant law, which Christians were never a party to in the first place. There is a new covenant, and it is not like the old. Read Hebrews 8:9.

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Answer 4

Jesus was a Jew. He followed the Jewish Law. When the Gospel was taken to the gentiles, the Holy Spirit made it plain that the gentiles did not have to take on the burden of the whole Law. The laws we had to follow were to not eat meat sacrificed to idols, to avoid sexual immorality, to not eat things strangled, and to not consume blood.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Christians follow Christ who fulfilled all the requirements of the Jewish Law.

Answer 7

Because God knew that no one could fulfill it. There is currently no one in the world that comes close to following Jewish Law. None. There is no temple for one thing.

Daniel probably never went to the temple which God commanded the Jews to do. So why was he so different? Because Daniel trusted God and believed God and it was counted as righteousness.

We are given a better promise through the New Covenant.

Hebrews 8:13
By calling this covenant "new," he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.

Answer 8

Christ threw out many of those little laws and then you saw the split of judaism and christianity. Most jews wouldnt accept the changes. The jews that did, and the gentiles that accepted the doctrine eventually started this offshoot of judaism, christianity. Both religions can be traced back to the same origin.

Answer 9

Firstly, let's be absolutely clear about this, Jesus was a Jew - not 'an Israeli' (I wonder what the difference is) - but a Jew. Not only with a genealogy going right back through to King David, to Judah and beyond - ie. an ethnic Jew - but also a religious Jew, too.

He was a Rabbi - ie. Teacher - it's there, in the Scriptures.
He followed the Jewish calendar of Feasts - Scripture records:
Passover (Matt. 26:2), Unleavened Bread (Matt. 26:17), Tabernacles (John 7:2), and Dedication (Hanukkah) (John 10:22).

He dressed like a Jew and wore a 'prayer shawl' (Matt. 9:20) - he even looked like a Jew (John 4:9).

These are just a few examples from Scripture - there are plenty more to show that Jesus was truly a Jew and, what's more, followed all the Jewish laws and teachings of the rabbis.

As to why Christians don't follow Jewish Law? Well, firstly, most of us are Gentiles, so the Jewish law is not for us. It's not for us to get circumcised, for example - that's for Jews.

What about the early Christians, who lived in Jerusalem and were, pretty much, all Jewish? Well, they had to work out - quickly - how what they had learned in Judaism interfaced with what Jesus the Messiah had taught them. In other words, what were the implications, what still applied and what didn't.

Firstly, Jesus said 'I have not come to destroy the Law, but to fulfill it' and 'not one jot, nor one tittle shall in any wise pass from the Law, till all be fulfilled'. Since we've understood that Jesus was FOR the Law, what did he actually mean?

Jesus was referring to the MORAL Law - ie. how man should behave both towards God and his fellow men, how he should love and honour them. Jesus gave many moral teachings on this, and none of them is at odds with Jewish teaching given by Moses and others in the Tanach.

The problem came with the CEREMONIAL Law - ie. the sacrificing of animals for sin. Since Jesus came to pay with his blood for the sins of the people, as St. Paul puts it:

'Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second'. (Heb. 10:8-9).

That is why the temple was destroyed in AD 70, because Christ had come and the sacrificial system had, in fact, passed away. God was making it impossible for the Jewish people to carry on with their sacrifices, because he had himself provided a Lamb, once for all.

Regarding the Feasts which the Jews still celebrate, even in the absence of their holy Temple, in all the lands of their dispersion, these help to keep Judaism alive and their Jewish identity intact and, as such, this is very good, for the Feasts have a lot to teach everyone. For us Christians who are (mostly) Gentiles, it is good for us, too, to go to the Feasts, identify with the Jewish people and learn what their purpose is and their meanings, for they have much to say. It is not wrong, for there are no blood sacrifices made.

The fact is, Christianity grew out of Jewish roots and, as St. Paul says, without them, neither should we exist, so we should not be proud in thinking that we are better than they, or know more, or are more blessed - we should not 'boast against the branches' for
'if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee (Roms. 11:18)'.

The controversy over circumcision regarding the Gentiles (Acts 15) was settled by the early church and it was understood that circumcision was for Jews only, as a token of the covenant of Abraham with their race and, as such, was not for Gentiles.

You see, some things of the Law are specifically for Jews, and circumcision is a good example.

When Jesus came, he established a New Covenant (Jer.31:31, Hebr. 8:13), not grounded on Law, but on Grace. Law says 'if you do this, you shall be justified', but Grace is the gift of God, whereby sinners could be justified through faith in his Son and not according (as the Law says) to their deeds.

Since men proved, again and again, that they could not keep the Law and be sinless, God brought in a better system, whereby all sins could be forgiven, by faith and not by works.
But, the Law had to come first, to show men what God's standard of holiness was, and how men were going to stumble in trying to keep God's law. But ...

'...when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law... (Gal. 4:4).
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Answer 10

Jesus followed the law......but there were 2 sets of laws......

the law of Moses...he kept this

the laws established by man's tradition.....he did not always keep this

first, christians were to at ;east follow the law of Moses

then, with the gentiles entering the church, many laws became ignored or deleted. this was wrong. to be a true follower of Jesus...we should do what he did.....this also explains why the early church was so pure and powerful...and the modern church seems so diluted in power......the early church was more obedient.