Page "Christianity and Judaism" Paragraph 25

Many Jews view Christians as having quite an ambivalent view of the Torah, or Mosaic law: on one hand Christians speak of it as God's absolute word, but on the other, they apply its commandments with a certain selectivity ( compare Biblical law in Christianity ).

Some Jews contend that Christians cite commandments from the Old Testament to support one point of view but then ignore other commandments of a similar class that are also of equal weight.

Examples of this are certain commandments that God states explicitly shall abide " for ever " ( for example, ), or certain practices which God prohibits as abominations, but which are not prohibited by most Christian denominations.