254 Jesus, Prophet ofIslam
Jesus said that he had come to uphold the Law of Moses and
not to destroy it one jot or one tittle.
The services now held in today's churches were developed long
after Jesus had disappeared. Many of them come directly from the
pagan Graeco-Roman mythological rites. The prayers they use are
not the prayers which Jesus made. The hymns they sing are not the
praises which Jesus sung. Believing Christians today worship God
as they think best, not as He originally commanded Jesus and his
true followers.
Due to the innovations of Paul and his followers, there is no
revealed teaching left as to what to eat and what not to eat. Any
one given a 'Christian education' today eats what he or she feels
like. YetJesus and his true followers only ate kosher meat and were
forbidden to eat pig's flesh. Most believing Christians today are
unaware of the fact that the food which God has forbidden them to
eat, such as pork and blood, is forbidden because it is not good for
them. Instead they believe that these ' dietary requirements' belong
to another age before fridges were invented, and that 'Christian'
scientists in white coats know best.
The last meal Jesus is known to have eaten before his disap
pearance was the Passovermeal. No Christian today celebrates this
long-standing[ewish tradition to whichlesus so meticulously held.
Itis no longer known in what manner Jesus ate and drank, who he
would eat with and who he would not eat with, where he would
eat and where he would not eat, when he would eat and when he
would not eat. Jesus fasted, but again it is not known how, where
and when he fasted. His science of fasting has been lost, There is
no record of the food he liked especially, and the food of which he
was not particularly fond.
Jesus did not marry while he was on earth, but he did not for
bid marriage. There is no passage in the Gospels which states that
a follower of Jesus must take a vow of celibacy. Nor is there any
authority for the establishment of single-sex communities such as
monasteries or convents, although these could owe their origin to
communities such as the Essenes. The early followers of Jesus who
were married followed the code of behaviour within marriage
which Moses brought. Their example is no longer emulated by
believing Christians today, and the current breakdown and col
lapse of the family structure in the Christian West today demon
strates the lack of effective guidance as regards behaviour within a
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