Actually,
it's a fertility goddess.
The fatness denotes she's full of life giving powers of the womb and of the breast.
The guy who said that was a Jew,
so context matters.
He also said God hasn't disowned all Jews,
since obviously,
he,
Paul,
was one.
He never said he himself was no longer a Jew even though he was a Christian.
So the context was of the unbelieving and falsely believing Jews trying to stop Paul from preaching Christ's Gospel to Gentiles.
God called him "Saul".
Paul continued to call himself a Jew,
as the Christ Jesus appointed teacher of the Gentiles.
As a Gentile,
I'll go along with my teacher.
You're adding to the argument.
There was nothing of talmudism mentioned,
neither by the poster to which I responded,
nor by myself.
Talmudism is oral tradition,
which Jesus severely and rightly rebuked as by its contradictory nature,
canceled out the Torah.
It's no more valid than the oral tradition of some calling themselves "christian" have embraced.
Yes,
he did.
That's not the argument.
Many among the Jews have turned to Christ in the many generations since then.
However,
in the context of the times,
it was important in teaching the Gentiles,
that Paul stressed he was a Jew so the Gentiles would not reject the Torah.
The Torah corrects and rebukes heathen wrongs.
It seems my response flew right over you're head.
What about Jesus rebuking Talmudism did you not understand?
It was demonic
("of your father, the Devil)
because it contradicted the Laws of Moses
(the Torah).
Take a bit more time to read posts more carefully.
You say,
"wrong",
but what exactly are you addressing in my response that is "wrong"?
Correct,
Gentiles are not born under the Law.
That was the point in God bringing in the Gentiles,
to show it is by His Grace,
not their lawkeeping,
by which men are justified.
However,
those whom He justified
(on the cross)
of both Jews and Gentiles,
while no longer under the Law,
establish the Law.
Keep that in mind.
Jesus did not save/justify many,
so they could be lawless.
Continuing to be under the Law is Nomism,
while being lawless is Antinomianism.
Both are the extremes that are not Christianity.
But Paul still called himself a Jew.
Again,
the Torah taught Gentiles the difference between what was wrong and right,
and what was evil and accursed.
Gentiles had no way of knowing that without it coming from their previous heathen background.
Not with the particular posts being addressed,
and certainly not by myself.
This is what is the deflection.
"It always" is a generalization.
It wasn't part of the post to which I responded,
nor that of which I responded.
Generalization.
The responses weren't a "full extent" dissertation.
Posts are not books.
If they wish to eat pork,
they may.
So can a believing Jew.
The Gentiles needed to read the Torah to help them identify the evils of the heathen religion.
They wouldn't have known how evil their heathen religions were without a study of the Torah.
Eating pork is merely eating a food.
If however,
the eating of that animal were connected to its belief it was a god,
then it was the religious act that is being rebuked.
God created pigs and all other creatures "good".
Man turned them "evil" by their use of those things in their heathen religions where they turned the creature into gods.
He ended it by fulfilling it.
However,
the Truth it taught is still Truth to show the difference between what is evil and what is good.
Those are the very laws Jesus obeyed to the jot and tittle.
He wouldn't obey evil.
He obeyed the Laws.