Jesus was 100% Jewish circa year zero. Observed Torah, went to and taught at synagogues, celebrated Hannukkah, ate a kosher diet, etc. But Christians don’t follow Jesus’s own religious practices.

  • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    That’s because Jesus didn’t tell us to eat a kosher diet or observe Torah strictly. Christians do teach the Bible in churches, the successor to synagogues.

    • missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      7 hours ago

      I’m not sure Jesus said anything about whether his followers need to keep kosher or observe the Torah. “I have come not to replace the Law, but to fulfill it” or something, right? I don’t think he weighed in on circumcision or pork. wasn’t that largely the early Christians deciding after his death?

      • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        6 hours ago

        Jesus said

        Matthew 15:11

        it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.

        The circumcision thing did come about at the Council of Jerusalem 20 years later, but Jesus instituted baptism which replaced it, and it follows the spirit of what Jesus taught.