I see your view on the Bible is really odd... OT laws don't
apply to you, as we agreed, cos we are not Jews.
Lets put it tis way. Even jesus was jewish.
Jesus was a Jew. He was born of a Jewish mother, in Galilee, a
Jewish part of the world. All of his friends, associates,
colleagues, disciples, all of them were Jews. He regularly
worshipped in Jewish communal worship, what we call synagogues. He
preached from Jewish text, from the Bible. He celebrated the Jewish
festivals. He went on pilgrimage to the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem
where he was under the authority of priests.... Jesus presented
continuously as going into the synagogue on the Sabbath. He is
presented as going up to Jerusalem for the pilgrimage holidays,
specifically in John, for any number of pilgrimage holidays, and in
the synoptic gospels, most importantly, for Passover. He lived as a
Jew and followed Jewish religious practices. He lived, was born,
lived, died, taught as a Jew.
From his birth, as is indicated by his very Jewish genealogy, Jesus
was raised a Jew. He was circumcised the eighth day (Luke 2.21),
bore a common Jewish name, Yeshua, 'he [God] saves' (Matthew 1.21).
In fact, Yeshua was the fifth most common Jewish name, 4 out of the
28 Jewish High-Priests in Jesus' time were called Yeshua.
After his birth, Jesus was presented to the Lord in the Jerusalem
temple (Luke 2.22; cf. Deuteronomy 18.4; Exodus 13.2,12,15)
according to Mary's period of uncleanness (Leviticus
12.2-
. A
sacrifice was offered for him - a pair of doves and 2 young pigeons
- which indicated that his family were not wealthy (Leviticus
12.2,6,8; Luke 2.22-24). Thus Jesus was raised according to the law
(Luke 2.39).
Every year, (perhaps the family was prospering or were particularly
dutiful for most only went up to Jerusalem occasionally) Jesus'
family went up to Jerusalem to celebrate Passover (Pesach) (Luke
2.41-43) a tradition which Jesus continued (John 12.12; Mark
14.12-26). Jesus also kept Tabernacles (Sukkôth, 'booths') (John
7.1-39). John 10.22-23 may also indicate that Jesus celebrated the
Hanukkah festival which commemorated the 2nd century B.C.
rededication of the Temple under the Maccabees.
"As was his custom" he also attended synagogue every sabbath (Luke
4.16) even during his travelling ministry (Mark 1.39; Matthew 4.23;
9.35; Luke 4.15,16-27,44).
In tithing, fasting and almsgiving he was totally Jewish. Although
he opposed excessive worrying about the minutiae of tithing "mint,
dill and cumin" (Matthew 23.23) he still argued that the crowds and
his disciples should do as the scribes and Pharisees said (Matthew
23.3; "but not as they do"!). In fact the law only specified
tithing of grain, wine, oil and livestock.(40)
Jesus said grace, or rather a blessing, before and/or after meals
(Deuteronomy 8.10; Matthew 6.41; 26.26 and Luke 24.30 which is post
resurrection; cf. Didache 10.1). The object of the blessing was not
the food but God, when the New Testament inserts 'it' or 'the
bread' in such verses it is not found in the Greek. It was
inconceivable that a Jew would bless the object and not the
originator/creator. The traditional blessing is:
"Barukh attah 'Adonai 'elohenu Melekh ha-olam ha-motsi lechem meen
ha-arets"
"Blessed are You, our Lord God, King of the Ages/Universe, who
brings forth bread from the earth"
In every respect, therefore, Jesus was a Jew, and was not ashamed
to call himself one:
"we know what we worship, for salvation is from the Jews" (John
4.22)
Jesus also refused to abolish Biblical Judaism
Matthew 5:17
17"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the
Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 I
tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the
smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means
disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
(NIV)
Now u say tat the OT laws was not applicable to christians, when
even jesus too follow them.
