Elsewhere we see that the mixed multitude that came out of Egypt with the Israelites were suppose to observe the Sabbath (as long as they were with the Israelites).

Exodus 20:10

The seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor the stranger who is within your gates.

Yet, a Gentile was forbidden to eat the Passover lamb unless he WAS circumcised.

Exodus 12:43

No outsider shall eat it. But every man’s servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then he may eat it. A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat it. … When a stranger sojourns with you and wants to keep the Passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as a native of the land. For no uncircumcised person shall eat it.

This may explain why Paul seems to institute a new observance, different from a traditional Passover seder, (1Cor. 11:17) for the Gentile believers.

A New Religion

As Christianity began to grow among the Gentiles, however, a new religion emerged.  This was never the intention of the early followers of "the Way".  What was NOT holy became holy, and what was holy lost it's holiness.

 


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