Authoruty (was Christians and HP revisited)

[David]

Amy Z wrote:

> Christians believe that kashrut and 
> Shabbat-observance and circumcision have been pre-empted by New 
> Testament revelation (the logic with the latter, at least, being 
that 
> Paul is more authoritative than the author of Leviticus, I guess) 

FWIW (while Christians may differ among themselves) IMO the classic 
logic is that Jesus *is* the same authority that wrote Leviticus; 
that Paul was making explicit what was implicit in Jesus (or even 
applying what was explicit); that what Jesus did was not revocation 
but revelation.

Chapter and verse available on request - but don't trust me as I 
don't believe it myself

David