If the Old Testament is the Torah and part of the Bible, why don't Christians celebrate Jewish holidays?

Answer 1

Because it is not their traditions, it is not their history. They do not fall under the covenant G*d made with Abraham

Answer 2

Because the christians think the jews, and everyone else are flat wrong. The christians think jews are wrong, despite the fact that Jesus, you know...the lord, was himself not a christian, but indeed a Jew. If you could ask Jesus of Nazareth what faith he believed in he would tell you to your christian face...."I am a Jewish man". That's what is so absolutely hilarious about the whole thing. Always confused me as a child. Why am I a christian, if the dude I'm praying to was Jewish? Never made any sense, always the same answer when you ask the nun to, because Jesus says so! Christians don't celebrate anything, quite simply they fear god, so much so that celebration is not in their creed no matter what the occasion.

Answer 3

The Torah is actuatly the first five books of the bible. Most Christians keep some traditions of the Jewish faith, but they havee their own religion with more modern practices, and in practicing the more modern traditions they seem to have lost touch with the old. The Reason why Christians don't celebrate such things as Huanakkah is because they have more modern miracles that are focused on, where as the Jews mainly have what is written down in their scripture thousands of years ago.

Answer 4

Not Jewish Holidays but Biblical Holy Days. True Christians celebrate the 7th Day Sabbath (Saturday) and the Biblical Festivals found in Exodus,Leviticus and Deuteronomy.

If you sincerely want to know more:

http://www.ucg.org/booklets/HD/

http://www.pcog.org/Default.asp?sitemapId=LiteratureQuip&LitList=19&id=1247

http://www.lcg.org/cgi-bin/tw/booklets/tw-bk.cgi?category=Booklets1&item=1104358140

http://www.cog21.org/site/cog_archives/booklets/PTXMAS.htm

http://www.cog21.org/site/cog_archives/booklets/The%20Plain%20Truth%20About%20EASTER%20(G).htm


Edit: To poster above, just what was fulfilled by Christ?
http://www.cbcg.org/franklin/FV_Appendix_E.pdf

Edit: eg: the Talmund is not the Old Testament, the Tanakh is. The Talmund is a commentary on the Old Testament

Edit; Doug Lawrence: There is absolultely no evidence in the Bible that the Pope had the authourity to change the Sabbath from the 7th day (Saturday) to the first (sunday), indeed, the Bible plainly marks Catholicism as the false religion for doing so:

Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

Answer 5

No, because of the fact in case you worship Jesus (spelled with the two a J or a Y), you switched G-ds. Your god is a human sacrifice. Idolatry is a deal breaker in Judaism. a similar section in Deuteronomy that announces do no longer worship statues or animals says do no longer worship people - ineffective or alive. Christianity is subsequently a separate faith. So the adaptation is that Christians do properly known a non-Kosher messiah, no longer that we don't. ingredient to correction: there is not any "previous" testomony in Judiasm. there is Holy Scripture, the Torah, Prophets and Writings (Tanach). Christians have re-written and added to those Scriptures to examine their applications, spoke of because it previous and added a clean ex-cement with countless slurs aimed in direction of Jews. Their New Addition negates Torah. this might properly be a stable occasion of how "extra" isn't everywhere close to extra powerful.

Answer 6

A lot of Christian believe in the New Testament only, not the Talmud, so Jewish holidays don't make much sense, especially as they had to be matched to our original pagan beliefs so people could swallow the whole scam in North Europe. ;-)

Answer 7

Because the bible tells us that when Jesus came he was the fullfillment of the old law - the old testament. It says that when he came the old law was dead and gone, because he was the Messiah that the old testament had been talking about and waiting for. The new testament says that there are only 2 laws we have to follow as opposed to 6hundred something in the old testament - love God with all your heart, mind and soul and love your neighbor as yourself. I f you love people that way you will be fullfilling the 10 commandments that God gave to Jesus. You won't kill, steal, covet, commit adultery etc. The new testament covers it all. That's why he came.

Answer 8

Christians believe in both old and new testaments of the Bible. Jews do not believe in New Testament, because they don't believe the "son of God" is here yet, thus they groom their sons until the age of 13 for Bar Mitzvaha.

Answer 9

In reality we should be jewish, in the bible is established that Jesus was jewish, that is a very interesting question and I should find out about it.

Answer 10

Because most Christians believe that the OT laws have been done away with and replaced with the "Law of Christ" which incorporates some aspects of the OT laws (don't steal, murder, etc.) but are still not the same law.
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Answer 11

Because all the old laws and stuff were only temporary, and are now of absolutely no salvific value, while Christians are under a new and better covenant of grace, governed solely by the authentic and universal church, with its' own appropriate feast days ... first among them being every Sunday.