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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry, hit submit too soon.

To sum up: Mark and Matthew support a reading that Jesus wanted his followers to follow Levitical dietary rules if you agree with the following.
1. Mark and Matthew were talking to Jews, not to gentiles.
2. “Whatever” means bread and nocturnal emissions and “nothing” means “nothing that’s not kosher.” 
3. Drinking wine as a metaphor for blood would have been completely acceptable to kosher-keeping Jews of the day.

#1 is patently rejected by most scholars, who point to the inclusion of detail on Jewish ritual as being for the benefit of gentile readers. Also, Mark and Matthew were written 40-50 years after Jesus, and long of after Paul’s mission to the gentiles, who were by then a big part of growing Christianity. Mark and Matthew were addressed to both Jews and Gentiles. 
#2 if you think a rhetorical and debating genius like Jesus didn’t understand what “whatever” and “nothing” mean, and how his words would be interpreted as being far broader than nocturnal emissions and bread. 
#3 Are you kidding?[/quote][/quote]

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