Traditional Marriage Question? Needs Defending

[Parisian]

Could someone help me to defend traditional marriage when someone says this to me?

“I find it equally humorous and sad when somebody wearing clothes made up of blended fibers is quoting Liviticus to put down gay marriage.”

If you need to move this to a different forum column, please do… I didn’t know where to post this question.

 

[Ad_Orientem]

If someone doesn’t believe that the Bible is God’s word, it is useless to invoke its authority in debates with them. You’d have to argue from the natural law, which can be demonstrated without appealing to faith (e.g., homosexuality frustrates the end of the procreative act, and so forth).

 

[Tantum_ergo]

Could someone help me to defend traditional marriage when someone says this to me?

“I find it equally humorous and sad when somebody wearing clothes made up of blended fibers is quoting Liviticus to put down gay marriage.”

If you need to move this to a different forum column, please do… I didn’t know where to post this question.

First, WERE you quoting Leviticus? ONLY Leviticus? Biblical sanctions were NOT limited to Leviticus; see St. Paul in the New Testament.

Sounds like somebody is trying to imply that because you don’t follow (according to his INTERPRETATION) 100% of ‘Leviticus’ that it means that ANYTHING stated in Leviticus is not defensible. But again, gay so-called marriage is not limited to a sanction in Leviticus. As Christians we acknowledge the inerrant teaching of Scripture but we have the HOLY SPIRIT who works through the Catholic Church to be the AUTHORITATIVE INTEPRETER of Scripture.

 

[fix]

Could someone help me to defend traditional marriage when someone says this to me?

“I find it equally humorous and sad when somebody wearing clothes made up of blended fibers is quoting Liviticus to put down gay marriage.”

If you need to move this to a different forum column, please do… I didn’t know where to post this question.

The moral law remains. The ceremonial law was abolished.

 

[Christy_Beth]

Paul also wrote a bit on this. “And some men will leave their (whatever) and burn with desire for each other.” Something like that. I wish I could remember it, along with the reference.

 

[Razanir]

First, WERE you quoting Leviticus? ONLY Leviticus? Biblical sanctions were NOT limited to Leviticus; see St. Paul in the New Testament.

Sounds like somebody is trying to imply that because you don’t follow (according to his INTERPRETATION) 100% of ‘Leviticus’ that it means that ANYTHING stated in Leviticus is not defensible. But again, gay so-called marriage is not limited to a sanction in Leviticus. As Christians we acknowledge the inerrant teaching of Scripture but we have the HOLY SPIRIT who works through the Catholic Church to be the AUTHORITATIVE INTEPRETER of Scripture.

Fallacy of composition. You have a bag of M&Ms, and the first couple you pull from the bag are all blue, therefore the entire bag is blue. It doesn’t work that way. Similarly, just because the more ceremonial parts of Leviticus were voided, doesn’t mean the whole thing can be ignored

 

[Parisian]

First, WERE you quoting Leviticus? ONLY Leviticus? Biblical sanctions were NOT limited to Leviticus; see St. Paul in the New Testament.

Sounds like somebody is trying to imply that because you don’t follow (according to his INTERPRETATION) 100% of ‘Leviticus’ that it means that ANYTHING stated in Leviticus is not defensible. But again, gay so-called marriage is not limited to a sanction in Leviticus. As Christians we acknowledge the inerrant teaching of Scripture but we have the HOLY SPIRIT who works through the Catholic Church to be the AUTHORITATIVE INTEPRETER of Scripture.

I was indeed, but then I realized I do not have an answer to the “blended fibers” as the only thing I could think of was that is Old Testament for the Jewish people to follow… Honestly I still don’t know what to say in regards to the blended fibers. Where in the bible (or New Testament) does it say we can ignore that part of scripture? If it is an abomination surely it is somewhere because now most of us wear blended fibers or two kinds of fibers at once.