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Scottishguy
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Hi guys, been wondering this question for a while, why don’t we follow Leviticus, it doesn’t say in the bible that we shouldn’t,
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chrisb
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Anything in particular or are you suggesting that we have ignored everything in Leviticus as a whole?
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Scottishguy
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mainly about clean and unclean animals, and offering incense in worship, its been bugging me for a while now
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Brenda_V
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Because this is the old law Jesus talks about having come to fulfill. One of our better Bible scholars can give you a more in depth answer but that is it in a nutshell.
Brenda V.
Brenda V.
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chrisb
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Grace and Peace,
Well, I’m not a ‘true’ Theologian but if I could I would point you first to St. Peter’s encounter with God’s Revelation on this particular matter found in the Sacred Text, particularly within chapter 10 of the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 10) but St. Paul also deals with ‘ritual cleaniness’ as a shadow of the true cleaniness which Christ Jesus brings about through the Incarnation. Are you familiar as to why the Logos was Incarnate?
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Snerticus
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Exactly. Jesus “did not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it”. That means that we now follow the New Testament teachings of Jesus and His Apostles, and no longer follow Mosaic Law.
Peter tells us in the New Testament in Acts 11:
Many people argue about it’s meaning, but as in most of the Bible, the interpretation has many layers of meanings. The most obvious is that now we can eat what we want and no longer need to follow the old law.
…But we still do use incense in worship.
God Bless,
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GrahamAPhone
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I really wish i could quote it exactly, but theres one verse thats something like – nothing that enters the body makes it unclean, but what comes from it that makes it unclean – it might have been mouth, If someone could save my hide right now and not make me seem like a fool that would be nice 
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LilyM
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Because Christ didn’t follow it either, in many particulars - he touched lepers and bleeding women and dead bodies among other breaches of the Leviticus code.
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DOShea
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Matt 15:11 It is not what enters one’s mouth that defiles that person; but what comes out of the mouth is what defiles one. (NAB)
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choy
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and we don’t need to offer incense or animals or anything anymore because Jesus already made the ultimate sacrifice. that is why during mass we have the bread and wine we offer on the altar to remind us of this sacrifice
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Victorious
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Scottishguy, read Paul’s letter to the Galatians.
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GrahamAPhone
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Thx,
i actualy was just flippin through the bible and found it and came to post it, but you beat me to the punch
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Luke65
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The Bible says that the Law of Moses was “set aside”, to make way for the Law of Christ…
Hebrews 7 (NIV)
11If perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood (for on the basis of it the law was given to the people), why was there still need for another priest to come—one in the order of Melchizedek, not in the order of Aaron? 12For when there is a change of the priesthood, there must also be a change of the law. 13He of whom these things are said belonged to a different tribe, and no one from that tribe has ever served at the altar. 14For it is clear that our Lord descended from Judah, and in regard to that tribe Moses said nothing about priests. 15And what we have said is even more clear if another priest like Melchizedek appears, 16one who has become a priest not on the basis of a regulation as to his ancestry but on the basis of the power of an indestructible life.
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“You are a priest forever,
in the order of Melchizedek.”[a]
18The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless 19(for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.
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DOShea
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Think of it from this perspective; When these laws were given to Moses, they served multiple purposes. They provided a civil code of law, a basic code of conduct, but the primary purpose of them was to establish a way for God’s chosen people to be sanctified. These laws set up the practice (in a formal way) of an established priesthood and all the formalities of temple worship, sacrifices, etc.
Consider that all these ritualistic animal sacrifices of blood were a symbolic sacrifice. There was nothing special about lamb’s blood or bull hindquarters that had any sacred significance on their own. When the blood of a lamb was sprinkled, the sanctification came from the promise of God to send a Messiah into the world, so it was the Messiah’s blood that was really the sanctifying “entity,” the lamb’s blood only symbolized it. It was symbolic of a future real sacrifice, in other words.
Now enter Jesus, the Messiah. Once His blood is actually shed, paying the price for sins past, present and future, we no longer have to symbolize the hope of it with the blood of a lamb. Now we symbolize His real sacrifice in the memorial of that event that He commanded His disciples to perform, that is the Sacrament of the Eucharist in every Mass. Thus we no longer need the ritualistic practices and such set forth in Mosaic law.
Consider that all these ritualistic animal sacrifices of blood were a symbolic sacrifice. There was nothing special about lamb’s blood or bull hindquarters that had any sacred significance on their own. When the blood of a lamb was sprinkled, the sanctification came from the promise of God to send a Messiah into the world, so it was the Messiah’s blood that was really the sanctifying “entity,” the lamb’s blood only symbolized it. It was symbolic of a future real sacrifice, in other words.
Now enter Jesus, the Messiah. Once His blood is actually shed, paying the price for sins past, present and future, we no longer have to symbolize the hope of it with the blood of a lamb. Now we symbolize His real sacrifice in the memorial of that event that He commanded His disciples to perform, that is the Sacrament of the Eucharist in every Mass. Thus we no longer need the ritualistic practices and such set forth in Mosaic law.
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Cluny
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Acts 15 makes is clear that Gentile Christians are NOT bound to the laws of clean and unclean in Leviticus.
But the use of incense DOES continue in the Apostolic Churches.
Just not the Protestant ones.
But the use of incense DOES continue in the Apostolic Churches.
Just not the Protestant ones.
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sancte_joseph
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We still offer incense… and the bread and wine that is offered isn’t just to “remind” us… Rather it is the SAME sacrifice Christ gave… not a different one nor a re-sacrifice… but the same… God is not bound by time.
And I hope you believe the Bread and Wine turn into the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Christ.
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cerad
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Leviticus was of course written by the Jews. When Christianity came along they needed something new and improved for marketing. Please note that only certain parts of Leviticus was declared obsolete. The homosexual stuff is still alive and well.
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Luke65
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Oh yeah, you have to eat the flesh and drink the blood of Jesus Christ - what a marketing coup!
“From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.” (John 6:66)
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sancte_joseph
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and don’t forget about being persecuted… and the whole thing about carrying your cross and following Christ…Oh yeah, you have to eat the flesh and drink the blood of Jesus Christ - what a marketing coup!
“From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.” (John 6:66)
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