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It's crazy to me how people can think Christianity can be progressive.
What is sin? It's to disobey God's orders.
Gods Law is above man's conscience, morality and social norms. NEVER set the standards of sin upon our own consciences based on social norms. The sins of our consciences are not in accord with what God has defined as sin. Therefore we should not listen to our consciences, but rather base the standards of sin on God's commandments.
The most serious sin is to disregard the Word of God. God gave us the law in the first place to make us realize our sins and punishment for them. Everyone should admit your sins and ask God to save you. You have to give up your own standards. Don't be arrogant and think you can live by Gods law either, no one is redeemed through their works. The one who is to be saved may think of himself as the worst sinner. Those who don't know themselves live hypocritical lives trying to hide their sinful selves in front of God. Jesus came to call the sick, the sinners to righteousness. Receive Jesus' love and admit you have committed many wrongs.
He has taken away the worlds sin onto himself at his baptism and carried it to the cross, where he bled to death with the worlds sin. We are free from sin through his actions. Its your belief in his works with a repentant heart that saves you. All sin requires the offering of a blood sacrifice because all sin results in death. This is why in Hebrews 10 it makes it a point to let everyone know those daily sacrifices they've done up until that point could never truly take away their sin. Because once you sin, don't you have to remove your sin once again through another blood sacrifice? So Jesus came once, and made everyone perfect who draws near. Even though you have to wash your feet daily you're completely clean through his righteous works.
There are 67 versions of the Bible in English alone. The Word has been corrupted. But the important parts made it through such as loving your enemies and turning the other cheek, things Christians conveniently forget... Oh and of course don't get in between a Christian and bacon. Afterall you can pick and choose which laws to follow.
“Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.“
Romans 14:20
“Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. 15 Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.”
17 After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable. 18 “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? 19 For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)
20 He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. 21 For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23 All these evils come from inside and defile a person.””
Mark 7:16-20
“These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules”
Isaiah 29:13
Eating from unclean animals is considered ceremonially unpure for seeking God and in past times was dangerous for health reasons (pork can have parasites). Jesus declares its sin not food that really gets between you and God. The formality of those laws is teach the sin and mortality that makes you a different being than God. But Jesus came to cleanse our hearts from the inside out.
There are parts of the Bible that are there for "faith" and parts that are there for "life". The "unclean food" was because for long parts of human history eating certain foods had a high likelihood you were going to die.
Old Testament God didn't care about pigs or shellfish, but a law against them was created because it saved lives.
Later, when those foods were no longer dangerous, they tried to get rid of the law forbidding it, but since they had used God as the excuse the first time, people pushed back.
It's possible that Jesus said those things about those foods, but it's also possible that the Church added them in the 100-200 years after Jesus before the Bible was written.
The point of "divine inspiration" is not that everything in the Bible happened as described, but that it exists (or existed) for a good reason. The difficulty sometimes is determining what is or is not necessary.
A good example there is tattoos. Back in the day, people got a tattoo, it got infected, they died. Thus the Lord says: no tattoos. Today, getting a tattoo is pretty safe in most places. Should we allow tattoos? Probably? But "my body is a temple"... sure, most temples have images and artwork that glorify God, so why not decorate your temple in His name?
I don't have tattoos and don't plan to, but it's a good example of the gray area and original cause/effect intention for these rules.
This is true. And that is why God gave those guidelines. People love to be legalistic but that’s never the point. God has always been intentional and purposeful with good reason. Jesus often pointed out nuance and real good conduct. Because it’s about the heart and doing the right thing, not strict thoughtless behavior.