** What really is behind the term “Judeo-Christian faith”? Does it mean we are bound to some Jewish customs? **are we partly Jewish yet acknowledging Jesus Christ as the foretold messiah in the old testament who the Jews renounced? Some sects (like the Jehovah’s witnesses) tend to claim that we are no longer bound to Jewish customs. What does the CC hold?
I recommend reading Nostra Aetate, Vatican II’s Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, especially paragraph 4.
The Jewish people were the first ones who were given the Ten Commandments. We are certainly still bound to those. But we are not bound to some of the other laws (dietary laws, for example).
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