"Jeff" wrote:
Are you denying the the Church "accepted" the Old Testament but then
said
many to the commandments needn't be followed? Its clear that Jesus said
the all must be followed.

A two-hump camel is a horse designed by committee......

The Church did not "accept the OT". The "OT" didn't exist as a document
until the Bible was compiled by a committee nearly 300 years after the man
it calls Jesus lived. The Bible OT was compiled from several parts. The
first and largest was redacted from the "Book of Moses" which was itself
heavily redacted from oral histories circa 200 BC IIRC. The rest comprise
some history plus legends supporting the coming of a Messiah, without
defining what a Messiah is. Hint: Jesus was not a Messiah.

Nor is it at all clear what Jesus said - it is only clear what others claim
he said based on hearsay 50-100 years later.

Christianity has little to do with the man we call Jesus. Saul invented
Christianity in the midst of a grand mal seizure. When he presented his
notions to Jesus' friends and desciples they tried to stone him for heresy.
He was expelled from Judea and had to change his name to Paul to avoid
assasination. That 'otta tell you what Jesus himself might have thought of
modern Christianity.

The fellow Greeks Saul was trying to convert wouldn't follow kosher dietary
laws let alone mutilate their penises as required by OT rules so he had to
abandon those "commandments".