You raise a good point. The jerusalem Council allowed goyim to become christians without becomin Jews, however what is forgotten is that the Mosaic code was still applicable to Jews (christian or Not).
In fact during the Inquisition Jews should not have been tortured into becoming Catholics but rather Orthodox Jewish Christians.
By the way where did nuns and rosary beads come from?
You raise a good point. The jerusalem Council allowed goyim to become christians without becomin Jews, however what is forgotten is that the Mosaic code was still applicable to Jews (christian or Not).
Agreed, though I think the vast majority of the Torah is applicable to both Jewish and Gentile believers. Certainly, one can't find "the Sabbath is now on the first day to commemorate the Resurrection" or "keep Christmas instead of Sukkot" anywhere in the Tanakh or NT. There are exceptions, of course, like ceremonial cleanliness (which is mostly applicable only if you're worshipping in the Temple in Jerusalem), sacrifices (which were ministered by the Levites exclusively, though now we believe that Yeshua is the new High Priest by God's direct appointment, so that He can be both a priest and a king like Melchizedek), kosher (which God did not impose on Noah when He gave him all the animals to eat), etc.
In fact during the Inquisition Jews should not have been tortured into becoming Catholics but rather Orthodox Jewish Christians.
Agreed, though the hostility towards the Nazarines (what we would today call Messianic Jews) goes back much further than that. They were barely tolerated by Justin Martyr as early as the 2nd century, were openly termed heretics by the 4th, and Jews entering the faith were forced to surrender every vestage of Jewishness (Sabbath, Passover, kosher, etc.) in order to be accepted into the supposed Church of the Jewish Messiah by the 5th.
Of course, that was derived from Roman and Greek bigotry, fueled by Judea's two failed rebellions, rather than from the Scriptures.
By the way where did nuns and rosary beads come from?
Well, similar beads can be found in pagan practices all over the world--if you watch any anime, you'll see prayer beads in a Shinto context a lot.
Within Roman Catholicism, the practice of using beads or some other device (like knots on a cord among some Eastern Orthodox monks) goes back almost to Roman times, and the use of what we would recognize as rosaries goes back to at least the 11th Century. The Rosary itself (i.e., the "Hail Mary" prayer) is usually traced to a Marian vision beheld by St. Dominic in about 1214 AD, which he then passed on to the Roman Church. Here are a pair of articles from RCC sources, should you want to pursue the matter further: The Catholic Encyclopedia: The Rosary and The Secret of the Rosary.
It's not a universal practice, of course. Protestants decry both the "vain repetitions" of the prayer and the overemphasis on Mary, who receives something like ten mentions for every one mention of God (Father, Son, or Holy Spirit) put together.