But if we use Leviticus for such laws, that kind of backfires in one’s face. Why? Because one cannot pick which laws in Leviticus one chooses to believe and follow and discard the others.
Example:
Leviticus 19:27 reads “You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads nor harm the edges of your beard.”
Leviticus 11:8, which is discussing pigs, reads “You shall not eat of their flesh nor touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.”
Leviticus 11:8, which is discussing pigs, reads “You shall not eat of their flesh nor touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.” So much for Thanksgiving Day football!
No tattoos. Leviticus 19:28 reads, "You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the Lord.
I can go on and on as I’m sure you know Leviticus since you quoted it. I am not making a fuss but simply want to put out that how can one use laws in the OT to condemn an action and not follow all the others?
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Yes you are right and here you should know what Saint Agustin said about the Old Testament:
"There are in the Old Testament prescriptions that even today they must be kept, obeying them, particularly if they are commandments that one has to do, or abstain of something, if they are prohibitions.
About these passages that one finds in the Sacred Scriptures that command, forbid or permit something, that is concern with a pious life and good customs and they must be kept even today in New Testament times. This is why I started this work to put together, with the help of God, all the precepts taking them out from the Canonical books and put them together to be able to be keep them, like in a mirror." (Saint Augustine, The Mirror of Sacred Scripture, in the introduction)
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind; Matthew 22:37 and You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Matthew 22:39 on these two commandments, says He, hang all the law and the prophets. Matthew 22:40 Whatever, therefore, we are by God’s law forbidden, and whatever we are bidden to do, we are forbidden and bidden with the direct object of fulfilling these two commandments.”
(
newadvent.org/fathers/1504.htm Saint Augustine ‘On man’s perfection in righteousness’).
And if you did not know, in this work by
Saint Augustine, The mirror of Sacred Scripture, you could read precisely all the prohibitions that you are quoting above: that we shall not make tattoos and the explanation of the cutting of the sides of your head, as they use to do it as a custom when someone died (tradition of the gentile nations where the Jews were living) and many others that we also should be keeping, with the exception about animals and others that changed with Christ advent.
Saint Augustine does not keep what is not necessary any more because of the teachings of our Lord, like: “Listen and understand: 11 it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles. (…) 17 Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach, and goes out into the sewer? 18 But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this is what defiles. 19 For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander."
Therefore we do not worry any more about prohibitions and regulations for eating animals and so on in the O.T.
But if you knew the effect of pig in your body, for the sake of health you will not eat it, but certainly not because makes you impure but sick!
1 Timothy 2:9 doesn’t like your gold necklace at all. Or your pearl necklace. Or any clothes you’re wearing that you didn’t get from Forever 21, Old Navy or H&M.
“Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments.”
I am afraid you are judging me without knowing me. I follow absolutely this teaching, probably for your surprise. So I do not wear gold, nor silver or precious stones and my clothing is modest and discreet. And my cloths normally I buy them only on sales, as far as possible. I do not watch TV (I do not have even one) and I use the internet for the glory of the Lord. I do not go to the Cinema except to see something that is been proved that does not have sexual scenes, preferably Walt Disney like, or funny (may be once a year, and only if necessary, in fact I can not remember when was the last time I went to see a film!!)
But in this assertion and certainty that you are taking against me, I can see that you do not like my stand along with the Bible against homosexuality. Review yourself why you are attacking me without knowing me?
In the love of God and of His Laws.
Gloria
Permitted but with stipulations.
Yes but divorce was permitted and men just will have to give his wife a bill of divorce for almost anything and it was done, she was out of the house. (Deuteronomy 24:1-4)
Both are murderers.
Two men. One rapes a 37yr old woman and the other rapes a 6yr old girl. Who do you think is worse even though both raped someone. See how that example doesn’t really gel?
And really you can not see who is worse!!! The older woman will come to terms with it somehow because she is mature, but the little one will suffer horrible. I tell you the one who raped the little girl will received many more years in prison than the other one, because will also be accused of pedophilia. Even though both stand to go to the lake of fire at the end times. So does not gel? (I really do not know what you mean, but I can guess. English is not my mother tongue, it is Spanish)
