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[quote]I understand that Acts is not cannon in Judaism, but the OP was asking about Christianity and why Christians don't follow all the Old Testament laws, so Acts would be relevant here.[/quote]

Again, OP was not initially at all clear in that, and many follow on posts have ignored the quite different Jewish position.   DCUM is a message board open to all, in a metro area with people of many different faiths. While its reasonable to assume that Hindus, Jains, pagans, etc are not much interested in someone discussing the Hebrew scriptures and their meaning, it is NOT reasonable in such a place to assume Jews are not.  Whenever you discuss what you may call the "old" testament, in a "public" place, its a good idea to consider that Jews are listening and are impacted.

[quote]But I don't think the shrimp was an indication of that. The LORD told the Jewish people that if they followed all the laws, they would live long in the land the LORD was giving them. So I think PART of that was not eating shellfish where there was no refrigeration.[/quote]

So you just eat them fresh, as lots of other peoples did, to generally no ill effect.  Or ill effects offset by the added nutrition. There MAY be an explanation in that shellfish are scavengers, and scavenger species are looked on askance in the dietary laws - I think more of a broad sense of uncleanliness, a moral uncleanliness, than anything about health.  But that is never a reason to forego following them - we are not supposed to look behind the law and judge Hashem's motivation which is unscrutable to us - instead we are to see that the law was given in love, and by following it, we reciprocate the love, and bring Him into our daily acts. [/quote]
Why the lecture about the rules of discourse on here? The OP said she was trying to learn about Christianity. [/quote]

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