Did early Christian converts follow Kosher?
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https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/90239 and https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/83864 ask about what early Christians *believed* with respect to Jewish dietary laws.
I want to ask a related question: are there any records of *actual practice*? In particular, are there any records that early Christian converts did any of the following:
- Began to eat non-Kosher foods (pork, shellfish, meat cooked in milk, etc.) when they had not done so previously. (Especially interesting if any *Jewish* converts did so.)
- *Stopped* eating non-Kosher foods when they had done so previously. (Would presumably apply only to Gentile converts for obvious reasons.)
- Ate non-Kosher foods previously and continued to do so. (Again, presumably applies only to Gentiles.)
As there was not necessarily uniformity of practice, valid answers might have examples of any or all of the above. Please refer to the referenced questions for relevant theology; here I am only asking about *what* actually happened, not *why*.
(This has incomplete overlap with https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/52717 . That asks about Christians *at any time* that *do* follow Kosher. I am asking about early Christians specifically, and both ones that do *and do not* follow Kosher.)
Asked by Matthew
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Nov 17, 2022, 05:47 PM
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