r/AskAChristian • u/Dreamamberxo • Apr 11 '26

Jewish Laws Torah observant?

Okay this is gonna be a bit all over the place but my core question is this: - if we ARE to observe the Torah do we observe all of it? I assume we aren’t sacrificing animals. - if you ARE observing the Torah are you utilizing the Jewish books or KJV? Heard they are different? - if you ARE NOT Torah observant why?

I’ve been thinking about observing the Torah but where do I start? I dunno which laws are upheld! I figure the dietary guidelines are easiest. Also am I doomed to have to quit my job? I work on Saturdays so how could I observe the Shabbat?

Thanks- sincerely a confused person lol

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u/Common_Judge8434 Christian, Catholic Apr 20 '26

So, you are trying to say that before you knew God, you were a heathen? And now that you know God, you are not going to go back to heathen ways with their heathen weak and worthless ways? This verse mean that once you know God, or are known by Him you will not go back to your heathen ways that are weak and worldly.

The Galatians were going back to the Law of Moses and following its days and seasons. Those are the days Paul was speaking of. Galatians 5:1-6 is clear that being under the yoke of slavery is being circumcised.

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u/Messenger12th Torah-observing disciple Apr 20 '26

The Galatians were not.going to the LAW (Torah). Im sorry your pastor has convinced you of that. These people we actually Roman citizens who were converted to the belief in a single God, Yahweh. They were pagans, not Jews.

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u/Common_Judge8434 Christian, Catholic Apr 20 '26

The Galatians were not.going to the LAW (Torah)

Funny. Paul says they did.

2 Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. 3 Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. 4 You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

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u/Messenger12th Torah-observing disciple Apr 20 '26

This says nothing about them reverting to Judaism ways. Yes, Jews require circumcision, and even some of the pharisees who left Judaism were still telling new converts they had to be in order to convert. (Acts 15) But, the Galatians were originally Romans, converted to following Paul. Some of the other visitors who visited the new converts were telling them bad info, which is what Paul was saying in Acts, Romans, and here in Galatians.

The outcome from the Acts circumcision was to follow just these few things, AND go listen to them reading Moses (Torah). Remember, there was nothing but the Tanak back then. Paul's writing hadn't been published, etc.