Wow, I had to go wade through that torrent of ignorance. Even when a couple of their own try to explain, most DUmmies stay
d_r (1,822 posts)
18. not really.
It is really not at all strange for Christians to eat pork. ... Jesus took away this old testament law. Jewish an Muslim folks don't eat pork...
d_r (1,822 posts)
23. I'm not much of a biblical scholar really
but it has to do with "Covenants" or promised agreements between God and his followers. The laws of the old testament were the "old covenant." Jesus brought a "new covenant" between man and God....
The old testament isn't "null and void" in that it is the history that leads up to the birth of Christ, the prophecy of Christ, it helps to understand the context of Christ. But the Jewish laws of the old testament are not binding to Christians who are bound to the new covenant and not the old.
LanternWaste (14,624 posts)
10. written by the Levites-- one of the twelve Judaic tribes
Leviticus (as were Deuteronomy and Numbers, also) was written largely by and for the Levites-- one of the twelve Judaic tribes. The Levites were the priestly caste (at the time, a concomitant of law-givers & judges too). Half of the Book of Leviticus are rules specifically targeting the priestly caste only (most of the diestary restrictions fall within this demographic). Another quarter of the laws are specific to the tribe of Judea en-toto (criminal and civil laws, mainly), and only the final quarter specific for mankind as a whole (very general laws-- almost admonitions if read as such).
So unless one is aware of the specific target of any particular law (priest, tribe, or humanity), it's not really that accurate to say "most/all Christians are hypocrites because of A; if law A is merely targeting the tribe of Levites...
Of course, many share this opinion...
Zorra (16,213 posts)
30. "I have a right to defend myself. And to point out the hypocrisy of people who justify anti-gay
bigotry by pointing to the Bible, and insisting we must live by the code of Leviticus on this one issue, and no other."
Dan Savage, 4/27/12
Rom 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Rom 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Rom 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Mat 19:4 And he answered and said unto them,
Have ye not read, that he which made [them] at the beginning made them male and female,Mat 19:5
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?There is nothing hypocritical about it, but you have to KNOW a little bit about Christianity to get that.
