Wolf_ODonnell wrote:Phoenix32890 wrote:Wolf_ODonnell wrote:Muslim rules for eating and drinking are similar to Jewish rules, seeing as the two religions both have the same origins.
Christianity is actually much closer historically to Judaism than is Islam. By your supposition, Christian and Jewish eating practices ought to be similar. But they are not.
Well, you can blame Paul for that.
If it had been up to Jesus, we would still be eating like the Jewish people do, after all, their rules are also in the Christian Bible, right?
From sources I've read about the first followers of Jesus, the Jewish saints (Peter, James, whoever else left of disciples still in Jerusalem) were horrified that Paul did not require Gentiles to bear the yoke, all the required dietary laws and other rituals, demanded of them to follow. The Jews complained, also, about allowing Gentiles in the religion at all. They thought an overwhelming onslaught of crude Gentiles would literally rot the entire community.
The above I read in an old book written in 1936, The Apostle by Sholem Asch