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Zzzzzzzz...I'm not really sure if our Jewish Freeper friends are aware we really don't care about their admonitions to us on how to celebrate our faith. We're almost all well aware that Christmas is on the same date as the old Saturnalia festivals and that Easter is at a similar time to the old pagan Spring festivals. None of it matters since we're not celebrating some pagan Spring festival or Saturnalia. We commemorate Christ's death and birth, respectively.

We also have no reason to abstain from eating shellfish or pork either. Christ created a New Covenant, and we're moving forward with that New Covenant. Not the old ways. It's such an irrelevant discussion I'm not even sure why we're having it. I mean, it's like been a moot point for about 1,950 years.

Some Jews - as well as non-Jews - have a nasty habit of trying to get to the bottom of what appears to be obvious and well-known.

On the other hand, there is nothing wrong in looking at a religion as a set of dietary laws. Some people do this "til they they die".

After the civil war when the Kingdom of Israel was divided in two about 900 BC the House of Israel or the ten northern tribes set up a religion that mixed the practices of the gentiles aka pagans and the Hebrew faith that they were instructed to follow by Moses. The House of Judah on the other hand, continued in the Hebrew Faith. YHVH aka God sent prophet after prophet to the house of Israel and told them their practices were an abomination and dung. They also replied zzzzzz, who cares, this is how we choose to worship, what's the big deal.

God then sent judgement and utter destruction in the form of the Assyrian army in 722 BC. The house of Israel and her golden calf worship were destroyed. The House of Judah is still intact and was brought back into the land in 1948 and made into a nation. We know them as the Jews but the Asherites, Danites, Ephraimites etc. are non existant. God's judgement on those tribes practicing a form of religion that was part pagan and part Biblical was to make them non existant.

Is God the same today, as He was yesterday, and is tomorrow? Do you really think God's grace covers zzzzz. That His wonderful truths are mixed with Ishtar and Mithra worship. His letter to the Laodiceans in Revelations basically says because you are neither hot nor cold but zzzzz I will VOMIT you out of my mouth. That means they WERE IN HIS BODY. I don't know about you but I fear God to much not to study to show myself approved and show utmost respect for His Truths.