How come Christians don't keep kosher?

Even in these times of eclectic "spirituality," anyone claiming to be a Jew who believes that Jesus is the messiah is likely to live with some tension in his life. The Council of Nicea ruled in 325 that Jewish observance is inconsistent with Christianity. For the most part, those claiming to be both Jewish and Christian have belonged to marginal organizations, not mainstream churches.

But here in Philadelphia, a minister named Andrew Sparks recently persuaded the Presbyterian Church to give $1 million to create Congregation Avodath Israel (Hebrew for "Jews' Worship Service").

Run by Pastor Sparks, the Congregation Avodath Israel church offers "Shabbat" services on Saturday mornings in what is, for the rest of the week, a traditional church in a shopping mall. Lest we forget, the Christian Sabbath is Sunday and not Saturday; indeed, observing the Sabbath on Saturday was banned by the early Christian church at the Council of Laodicea in 364.

So what exactly is Avodath Israel's Saturday service? It consists largely of selections from the Jewish Sabbath prayer book. There are even weekly readings from what Mr. Sparks told me is a kosher Torah scroll. Mixed in are selections from Christian texts. For instance, after the Torah is read, Mr. Sparks reads the "Brit Chadashah"--Hebrew for "New Covenant," which most Christians would recognize as the New Testament.

Some actually do to an extent, they also celebrate jewish holidays like passover. The majority focus on the new testament because this religion focuses on Jesus and G-d, where as the old testament is based before Jesus.

Being kosher is a little outdated, routing from health standards that are not an issue anymore.

people don't see clearly, They think that Jesus by fulfilling the law He put an end to it, but that doesn't make sense to me. He said I have not come to destroy the law but to fulfill it.

when they broke the law, in the first testament, they had to offer up a sacrifice. Kind of like you break the law today you have to pay a fine and maybe do jail time. Jesus paid the price, He was the ultimate Sacrifice for all sin, so he fulfilled the penalty or punishment side of the law for us.

What many people don't realize is the law is still in affect, Jesus simplified some of the laws to make them easier to follow, but he didn't change them or do away with them.

Another way to view this-someone goes and gives the government a huge amount of money on my behalf , then if I break the law, my debt will have already been paid. Does that mean the law no longer applies to me, and I can break as many as I want, when ever I want? Don't think so, not in the world, Spiritual or natural.

First, only Jews were standing at Mt Sinai, and only Jews were commanded by Gd to keep His commandments.

The reason why Christianity does not keep kosher is that early on, Christianity made being a Christian easier than being a Jew, by eliminating keeping kosher and keeping the Sabbath. They therefore put words into Jesus's mouth, making it look like Jesus said it was okay to not keep the laws (like keeping kosher: 'it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles, not what goes in the mouth...' for example). This helped to widen the gap between Judaism and Christianity.

It is easier to merely, only, keep the ten commandments (how many people have you murdered lately?), than to keep kosher or keep the Sabbath, especially for the gentiles who were the targets of the earliest Christian missionaries after they got kicked out of the synagogues.

Those churches that attempt to celebrate Jewish holidays and rituals usually do so by perverting them into Christian theological expressions.

Have you read the New Testament? The New Covenant tells you why. The Old Covenant was put aside 'partly'... but it will not disappear until the end of the world system... at the return of the Messiah Jesus.

Fantastic question. Regarding the 10 commandments, no, we are not to keep those. After Messiah came, He gave only two to obey, which just happen to incorporate the 10.

This is a very tricky question because of what the nature of the Law, and what it was for. So please read my study below and it will answer your question very specifically.

According to Leviticus, the laws in that book only apply to Israel. If you read it, you will see some things that Israel is not allowed to, but Gentiles are.

As a weird example, Jews cannot eat a cow that died by falling into a well, but its ok for them to sell the meat to Gentiles.

Kosher is a Jewish practice, keeping with the old law. Christ died on the cross to fulfill the old law, so we don't have to follow it today (the same reason we don't make animal sacrifices and we can do as we please on Saturday and we have 'church' on Sunday).