The Split Between Hellenistic Judaism and Hellenistic Christianity By Anthony Faber, Phd. Perpetual (C)Copyright (2013 C.E.

) By Anthony J. Fejfar and Neothomism P.C. (PC) Around the time that Jesus of Nazareth walked the Earth in Palestine, there were two major factions in Judaism, namely, Orthodox Judaism and Hellenistic Judaism. Orthodox Jews were required by Jewish Law to keep holy the Saturday Sabbath as a day of rest, to keep Kosher dietary laws, and to attend Synagogue on the Sabbath. Jewish Law required then, and now, for

Jews to follow the following Sabbath laws. The following conduct was prohibited on the Saturday Sabbath for Orthodox Jews: 1. A Jew cannot carry a load on the Saturday Sabbath, that is, a Jew cannot carry a purse, a pack, a brief case, a sack, etc. 2. A Jew cannot walk more than one half mile from that Jews principal place of residence on the Saturday Sabbath. 3. A Jew cannot ride in a vehicle of any type on the Saturday Sabbath. 4. A Jew cannot prepare food on the Saturday Sabbath. 5. A Jew cannot conduct a business transaction of any type on the Saturday Sabbath. 6. A Jew cannot engage in any manual work on the Saturday Sabbath. 7. A Jew must attend Synagogue on the Saturday Sabbath. 7. A Jew cannot hire a non-jew to perform any activity on the Sabbath which a Jew is prohibited from doing by Jewish Law. Under Jewish Law, the penalty for any Jew who violates any of the foregoing rules is the death penalty. Under the Jewish Law of Kosher, a Jew was not permitted to eat any kosher prepared food on any day other than the day that such food was cooked or prepared for eating. You can see that a certain problem has arisen with Jewish Law. Jewish Law is impossible to keep because in involves laws which are logically and practically inconsistent. For example, a

Jew cannot prepare food on the Saturday Sabbath, and at the same time a Jew is forbidden from eating food which has been prepared the day before, or earlier. The result is that under Jewish Law, a Jew cannot eat any food at all on the Saturday Sabbath. Of course, the enforcement of this Jewish Law would cause many Jews to become very sick and perhaps die. Additionally, most Jews lived more that one half mile from the Synagogue, and thus at the same time that Jewish Law required that the Jew attend Saturday Synagogue, the Jew was prohibited from walking to the Synagogue which is located more than one half mile from that Jews home. Also, Jewish Law prohibits a Jews from riding to Saturday Synagogue in a

carriage, or car, or bus, or taxicab, or any type of vehicle. Now, the only way that Jew at the time that Jesus of Nazareth walked the Earth in Palestine, could avoid the death penalty for violating the above stated Jewish Law, was to get a dispensation from a Levite Priest who was a member of the Jewish Sanhedrid. To get such a dispensation to

break Jewish Law without incurring the death penalty, a substantial bribe had to be paid to the Levite Priest, in modern terms, say about $15,000 a month or more. Moreover, if you did not have a Levite Priest, as described above, in your family, the cost of the bribe was astronomically higher, say in modern terms, at least $100,000 a month. Now, at the same time that the foregoing was happening, many Jews we getting greek educations at the gymnasium, and learned about logic, the crime of sophistry, and the notion of Equity and Equitable Exception on genuine need. Such Jews followed greek law, the law of

logic, as Hellenistic Jews, and used roman law, also the law of logic, to criminally prosecute and sue for civil damages any Orthodox Jews who attempted use Jewish Law to have such Hellenistic Jews prosecuted for doing such things as carrying a pack on the Saturday Sabbath or riding a carriage to Saturday Sabbath, etc. After awhile the Hellenstic Jews broke from the Orthodox

Jews by moving the Sabbath Day to Sunday, and keeping Saturday as a day of rest. The Hellensitsic Jews also significantly modified the Jewish Law of Kosher. After awhile all the Hellenstic Jews made the foregoing moves and soon, with their Hellensistic Jewish Rabbi leader, Jesus of Nazareth, started calling themselves Christians, that is, Hellenstic Christians who followed greek philosophy, metaphysics, Equity, Logic, Law of Logic, cosmology, etc., as well as the Jewish Torah. The Romans, as a general rule, sided with the Hellenistic Christians, as soon

the Roman Catholic Church which followed Roman Catholic Canon Law, the Law of Logic and Equity developed. Once Jerusalem was destroyed by an Earth Quake as well as Roman attack around the year 70 A.D., and as such, the Jewish Sanhedrin was abolished. Orthodox Judaism became totally impossible to follow because of the above logical inconsistency of Jewish Law. Christianity became increasing popular for Jews throughout the Roman Empire because it was no long possible to be Jew without incurring the Death Penalty under Jewish Law. The same is true

today. Judaism, then and now, is a failed and irrational religion because the Talmud does not contain the Law of Logic and the notion of Equitable Exception as its guiding principles. All Jews are subject to the Death Penalty under their own Jewish Law, without exception.