Why dont Christians observe Kosher dietary laws?

[steve_b]

Ive been thinking about this a lot. I mean we still follow the 10 commandments, observe the sabbath (albeit in an altered form), and have carried over the Jewish ritual of Tviliah (baptism); besides, *Jesus said “I came not to abolish the law, but to fulfill it.” . So why dont we observe mosaic dietary laws and abstain from pork, shellfish, mixing milk and meat, or practice ritual slaughter? *Is there a historical reason for this?

God Bless,

DeusExMachina

Short answer,

We’re New covenant people. The old didn’t save nor can it save. Hebrews 8:7 no need for a new covenant if the first was sufficient, Hebrews 8:13

Jesus fulfilled the old. He is our new mediator Hebrews 9:15 , who is Hebrews 10:29 the blood and the promises of the new and eternal covenant Hebrews 13:20

 

[ComplineSanFran]

no need for a new covenant if the first was sufficient,

The Church does teach that the first Covenant was sufficient - and irrevocable. In all the work that is being done between Jews and Catholics, this is one area that is not disputed. Nostra Aetate just celebrated it’s 50th anniversary, and this is the work that commemorates it.

“THE GIFTS AND THE CALLING OF GOD ARE IRREVOCABLE” (Rom 11:29)

A REFLECTION ON THEOLOGICAL QUESTIONS PERTAINING TO CATHOLIC–JEWISH RELATIONS ON THE OCCASION OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF “NOSTRA AETATE” (NO.4)

‘The covenant that God has offered Israel is irrevocable…The New Covenant can never replace the Old but presupposes it and gives it a new dimension of meaning, by reinforcing the personal nature of God as revealed in the Old Covenant and establishing it as openness for all who respond faithfully from all the nations (cf. Zech 8:20-23; Psalm 87).’

 

[Lucretius]

The Church does teach that the first Covenant was sufficient - and irrevocable. In all the work that is being done between Jews and Catholics, this is one area that is not disputed. Nostra Aetate just celebrated it’s 50th anniversary, and this is the work that commemorates it.

“THE GIFTS AND THE CALLING OF GOD ARE IRREVOCABLE” (Rom 11:29)

A REFLECTION ON THEOLOGICAL QUESTIONS PERTAINING TO CATHOLIC–JEWISH RELATIONS ON THE OCCASION OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF “NOSTRA AETATE” (NO.4)

‘The covenant that God has offered Israel is irrevocable…The New Covenant can never replace the Old but presupposes it and gives it a new dimension of meaning, by reinforcing the personal nature of God as revealed in the Old Covenant and establishing it as openness for all who respond faithfully from all the nations (cf. Zech 8:20-23; Psalm 87).’

I think he means sufficient, as in “sufficient for salvation,” which no Christian can accept the old Covenant as.

Christi pax,

Lucretius

 

[steve_b]

The Church does teach that the first Covenant was sufficient - and irrevocable. In all the work that is being done between Jews and Catholics, this is one area that is not disputed. Nostra Aetate just celebrated it’s 50th anniversary, and this is the work that commemorates it.

“THE GIFTS AND THE CALLING OF GOD ARE IRREVOCABLE” (Rom 11:29)

A REFLECTION ON THEOLOGICAL QUESTIONS PERTAINING TO CATHOLIC–JEWISH RELATIONS ON THE OCCASION OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF “NOSTRA AETATE” (NO.4)

‘The covenant that God has offered Israel is irrevocable…The New Covenant can never replace the Old but presupposes it and gives it a new dimension of meaning, by reinforcing the personal nature of God as revealed in the Old Covenant and establishing it as openness for all who respond faithfully from all the nations (cf. Zech 8:20-23; Psalm 87).’

catholic.com/magazine/articles/the-corporate-conversion-of-israel

 

[mikekle]

Can something be ‘inherently wrong’ at one time and ‘not inherently wrong’ at some other time…?

Not imo, if God said such a thing was wrong, its wrong, no matter what year it is.

Its mankind who is doing anything they can to try and justify behavior like this, using the excuse of modern times versus biblical times’ probably does not go over well with God.

 

[RetreatFan]

Since the original question was about kosher dietary laws, I would say the answer is in Matthew 15 10-20:

10 He called the people to him and said, ‘Listen, and understand.
11 What goes into the mouth does not make anyone unclean; it is what comes out of the mouth that makes someone unclean.’
12 Then the disciples came to him and said, ‘Do you know that the Pharisees were shocked when they heard what you said?’
13 He replied, ‘Any plant my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.
14 Leave them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind; and if one blind person leads another, both will fall into a pit.’
15 At this, Peter said to him, ‘Explain the parable for us.’
16 Jesus replied, ‘Even you – don’t you yet understand?
17 Can’t you see that whatever goes into the mouth passes through the stomach and is discharged into the sewer?
18 But whatever comes out of the mouth comes from the heart, and it is this that makes someone unclean.
19 For from the heart come evil intentions: murder, adultery, fornication, theft, perjury, slander.
20 These are the things that make a person unclean. But eating with unwashed hands does not make anyone unclean.’

I always understood this as the passage that made away with all the kosher restrictions, is it not?