Yes, and interestingly these dietary restrictions when explored make a hell of a lot of sense for a preliterate nomadic people who lacked the techniques or knowledge to safely prepare them. Things like not eating pork when you realize trichinosis would have been an issue etc.
True. Again this is OT vs NT. one could argue with the advances in dietary knowledge the eating restrictions are no longer valid.
There is also the dream where John sees all kinds of bugs etc and Jesus appears and tells him it is not what a man puts in his mouth that makes him unclean but what comes out of his heart, which is only in some Bibles but which tends with that interpretation to say that the old commandments on food are no longer needed.
I'm just making educated guesses here no better or worse than anybody else's. And it would seem to me like Jesus commandment to "love thy neighbor" would mean I would not approve of homosexuality but I wouldn't judge either.
Everyone has their own cross to bear and has to do what they have to to minimize sin. My cross might be porn or alcohol or whatever and it's no easier or harder for me than for a gay guy not to sleep with dudes. Work out our own salvation as it were
Right? Like all of the things God prohibited with commandments etc were actually REALLY GOOD PROHIBITIONS bc of what harm can be done by breaking them. Adultery, stealing, etc. However I think the levites took it too far with the sideburns thing but even the verses seemingly against tattooing make sense when you understand tribal nature of back then and trying to not follow in those footsteps
Yes thank you for summing it up better than I could.
Having read a great deal of the Jewish holy literature, they LOVE their legalism. The Talmud, the Mishneh Torah, etc...all just giant lawbooks trying to cover every possible scenario
Yes, and interestingly these dietary restrictions when explored make a hell of a lot of sense for a preliterate nomadic people who lacked the techniques or knowledge to safely prepare them. Things like not eating pork when you realize trichinosis would have been an issue etc.
True. Again this is OT vs NT. one could argue with the advances in dietary knowledge the eating restrictions are no longer valid.
There is also the dream where John sees all kinds of bugs etc and Jesus appears and tells him it is not what a man puts in his mouth that makes him unclean but what comes out of his heart, which is only in some Bibles but which tends with that interpretation to say that the old commandments on food are no longer needed.
I'm just making educated guesses here no better or worse than anybody else's. And it would seem to me like Jesus commandment to "love thy neighbor" would mean I would not approve of homosexuality but I wouldn't judge either.
Everyone has their own cross to bear and has to do what they have to to minimize sin. My cross might be porn or alcohol or whatever and it's no easier or harder for me than for a gay guy not to sleep with dudes. Work out our own salvation as it were
Right? Like all of the things God prohibited with commandments etc were actually REALLY GOOD PROHIBITIONS bc of what harm can be done by breaking them. Adultery, stealing, etc. However I think the levites took it too far with the sideburns thing but even the verses seemingly against tattooing make sense when you understand tribal nature of back then and trying to not follow in those footsteps
Yes thank you for summing it up better than I could.
Having read a great deal of the Jewish holy literature, they LOVE their legalism. The Talmud, the Mishneh Torah, etc...all just giant lawbooks trying to cover every possible scenario