You left out an important part of my post. In full it reads:
“It was an angel that announced to Cornelius that the restrictions of the law had ended and thus Peter was given his vision and Cornelius guided to him. (Acts 10)
No decision on ending the restrictions of the Mosaic law (including circumcision and split hoofed non cud chewers) was made by the church and none was necessary, it was an accomplished fact.”
Those restrictions that were “necessary” (Acts 10:28,29), keeping free of fornication, things strangled, blood, idolatry, were restrictions if effect BEFORE the Mosaic Law existed and hence would remain so even when the law was fulfilled.
“Then Kashrut became optional” For whom?
“Read the Book. You don’t like what is written, write your own, and see where you get.”
read the book, like what I read, no need to write my own and reading gets me to an understanding of what it says. thanks.
my typo Acts 15 not 10.
I agree that these restrictions are an older group; that is probably why the Council of Jerusalem did not lift those. They are called Noahide Laws, as opposed to Mosaic laws. But Christianity is generally not about formal laws. We are very much against fornication and idolatry not because God said so to Noah but because the law to love God commanded that even before anything was told to Noah. As to blood and the method fio slaughtering livestock, there is not natural law against it, so the Church gradually dropped those.
We are saved by grace alone and not by the works of the law.