Mosaic dietary laws

[Nelson]

<a href="http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=RsvLevi.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=11&division=div1" target="_blank">The Mosaic Dietery Laws</a>

Are they for Jews only are for Christians too?

[Capt. Eucalyptus]

Haven't read the areticle yet. (I will) But I believe that CHristians are not reqiuired to follow them.

Acts 11:4Peter began and explained everything to them precisely as it had happened: 5"I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision. I saw something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to where I was. 6I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air. 7Then I heard a voice telling me, 'Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.'
8"I replied, 'Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.'
9"The voice spoke from heaven a second time, 'Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.' 10This happened three times, and then it was all pulled up to heaven again.

among other places to support this.

[Scott Standridge]

I had always believed that the New Covenant (Jesus) superseded the old covenant (Mosaic law etc.), or at least made important revisions to it. However, you always find people (i.e., Christians) who want to selectively enforce Old Testament law when it suits them. "I'm not going to hell for eating shellfish, but you shall not suffer a witch to live."

My faves are not the dietary laws, but stuff like this:

Deuteronomy, Chapter 23

23:1
He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

23:2
A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
"You know that vasectomy you were thinking about? Might want to hold off..." :D

That said, I want to make clear that not ALL xtians selectively interpret for personal or argumentative gain. Just some.

[Nelson]

i think that the dietary laws are good for health and not for the sake of just being a dietary law.

that said, Jesus said it's not what goes into your mouth that's bad but what comes out of it.

[Nelson]

capteucalyptus (Scott Roche):
Haven't read the areticle yet. (I will) But I believe that CHristians are not reqiuired to follow them.

Acts 11:4Peter began and explained everything to them precisely as it had happened: 5"I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision. I saw something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to where I was. 6I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air. 7Then I heard a voice telling me, 'Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.'
8"I replied, 'Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.'
9"The voice spoke from heaven a second time, 'Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.' 10This happened three times, and then it was all pulled up to heaven again.

among other places to support this.this text was in reference to peter not wanting to meet greeks that wanted to know about christ. he wouldn't meet with them because they were "heathen." Hence the reason for the dream.