None, but it is irrelevant as to whether I kept them, the fact is that our Lord kept the Passover a few days before he was crucified. And the early Christian Church, when there was only one Christian Church, believed that this was significant enough to figure into the calculations to determine the date of Easter.
"And I need not follow the Jewish calendar."
Perhaps not, but you should respect that He did.
"Do you identify yourself as a Jew or as a Christian?"
I am a Christian -- a follower of Jesus Christ whose Divinity was from God and whose humanity was Jewish.
"Christians are not Christ deniers"
Not quite true. What about Peter denying Christ three times before the cock crowed?
However, for you to completely divorce Christ's celebration of Judaism from Christian history, is really to divorce the Old Testament from the New Testament (whether you like it or not) and that is theologicaly unsupportable from a Christian perspective.
You wrote:
“None, but it is irrelevant as to whether I kept them, the fact is that our Lord kept the Passover a few days before he was crucified. And the early Christian Church, when there was only one Christian Church, believed that this was significant enough to figure into the calculations to determine the date of Easter.”
True enough. Then it changed. Those things happen. If you don’t stick to celebrating Jewish festivals, then sticking strictly to the Jewish calendar is no longer relevant. Then again, you don’t stick to the Jewish calendar either!
“Perhaps not, but you should respect that He did.”
I do. But that doesn’t mean I must do as He did in that case. He was also circumcised. I need not be. I respect that He was. But I am not required to follow that practice. I am not a Jew. I don’t follow the Jewish calendar.
“I am a Christian — a follower of Jesus Christ whose Divinity was from God and whose humanity was Jewish.”
His Jewishness was from a Jewess - our Blessed Mother. His humanity came from Adam and Eve. His flesh came from Mary.
“Not quite true. What about Peter denying Christ three times before the cock crowed?”
Peter denied knowing Jesus. He did not deny who Jesus was.
He said he didn’t know the man (meaning Jesus). He never said, that man is not the Messiah, and not the Son of God. There’s a big difference there. Peter was speaking out of fear, not out of a Jewish theological need to deny the divinity of Christ. I am surprised you would conflate the two as if they were the same thing.
“However, for you to completely divorce Christ’s celebration of Judaism from Christian history, is really to divorce the Old Testament from the New Testament (whether you like it or not) and that is theologicaly unsupportable from a Christian perspective.”
I divorce nothing here. I recognize things as they are. Not following a Jewish calendar does not mean I divorce one testament from another. It means I am not Jewish, and have no Judaizing tendencies as such.