angelus

The construct of "God " implies the force behind the creation of all that exists - the Universe - and that must include evil as well as good. Otherwise, where did evil come from? It would not exist if it had not been created? We have to widen out perception of what we mean by "God" to include everything.

Yes, but surely moving the sabbath to sunday was simply so as to adopt the pre-existing pagan sabbath, to keep new converts happy. As with so many other older pagan traditions that were incorporated over time. I wonder if re-incorporating some of the older jewish stuff with in fact give more authenticity to christianity? After all, we claim that its roots are in jewish history, why not be a bit more bold in living it out?

Fundamentalists tend to pick and choose very carefully - they latch onto "the bible says" when it suits them, and are happy to ignore what teh bible says when they don't like it - eg. dietry laws, not cutting your hair - there are literally thousands of jewish laws that Jesus would have followed and modern christians ignore. How do they explain this, I wonder?

Does anyone have ideas as to why the Christian tradition has in the main ignored many of the Jewish teachings and laws concerning acceptable food, keeping the Sabbath (Saturday) holy, etc. I am not aware that Jesus, who as an observant jew would have followed jewish law, - I am not aware that he ever advocated ignoring jewish laws, even though he did "re-interpret" some, so as to get at the spitit rather than the letter of the law.