Jewish roots?

[fhkjds]

Can somebody please help me make sense out of the following 2 scripture passages?

1. Acts 15:28-29: “It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things.”

Is this saying that if Christians eat meat, they should eat kosher?

1. Matthew 23:1-5 ""Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples, saying: “The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. Therefore whatever they tell you to observe, that observe and do, but do not do according to their works; for they say, and do not do. For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. But all their works they do to be seen by men.” "

Is Jesus saying here that the scribes and the Pharisees had good teaching but they just didn’t live up to it? I thought he was very critical of the Pharisees.

Any help and insight is very much appreciated.

 

[Crusading_Canuk]

The Pharisees as were all Judeans at the time were bound by the Law of Moses, this is the Old Testament and up to the time of Christ although incomplete was the very best faith available to man. So the Pharisees did have very good teachings, they’re problem was precisely that they didn’t live up to them, and even when they “did” it was in public to make them look good. Kosher, is part of the Law of Moses and we need not (and should not) concern ourselves with it.

 

[laszlo]

Can somebody please help me make sense out of the following 2 scripture passages?

1. Acts 15:28-29: “It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things.”

Is this saying that if Christians eat meat, they should eat kosher?

1. Matthew 23:1-5 ""Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples, saying: “The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. Therefore whatever they tell you to observe, that observe and do, but do not do according to their works; for they say, and do not do. For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. But all their works they do to be seen by men.” "

Is Jesus saying here that the scribes and the Pharisees had good teaching but they just didn’t live up to it? I thought he was very critical of the Pharisees.

Any help and insight is very much appreciated.

1./ The Mosaic Law significantly restricted which animals can be eaten (e.g. no pork). The new restrictions are much more relaxed, and related to the meat represent only health reasons.

2./ Jesus in Matt 23 talked to Jews bound by the Mosaic Law. The Mosac Law was given by God, and thus good. The problem with the Pharisees was that they worshiped the Law, instead of God, who was present among them.

The question for the Christianity was weather the gentile Christians should follow the Mosaic Law or not; and the clear answer is no.

The moral is, that many things are good, but not expedient in a given time.

 

[Bezant]

Can somebody please help me make sense out of the following 2 scripture passages?

1. Acts 15:28-29: “It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things.”

Is this saying that if Christians eat meat, they should eat kosher?

No. Kosher meat at that time would have meant additional requirements to the ones outlined here.

The prohibition against blood here is from the Laws of Noah, given after the flood with the rainbow, which Jews believe is binding on all mankind (as opposed to Torah, which is binding only to Jews).

 

[FAB]

Can somebody please help me make sense out of the following 2 scripture passages?

1. Acts 15:28-29: “It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things.”

Is this saying that if Christians eat meat, they should eat kosher?

1. Matthew 23:1-5 ""Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples, saying: “The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. Therefore whatever they tell you to observe, that observe and do, but do not do according to their works; for they say, and do not do. For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. But all their works they do to be seen by men.” "

Is Jesus saying here that the scribes and the Pharisees had good teaching but they just didn’t live up to it? I thought he was very critical of the Pharisees.

Any help and insight is very much appreciated.

The passage from Act’s is the First Council of the Church held in Jerusalem. The question at the time did gentiles first have to become Jewish, including circumsim to become part of the new Christian Church. The council basically said no an set out a set of min. requirements. It was a victory for St. Paul as he worked to estabished new churchs.