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Posted by Mitch45 on Mon May 14 11:17:00 2012, in response to And the Churches React Re: Controversial Newsweek Cover Calls Obama ''The First Gay President'', posted by JohnL on Sun May 13 22:28:00 2012. I find this quotation interesting.Initially, in my experience, Judaism believes that the dietary restrictions set forth in Leviticus only applies to the Children of Israel NOT the other nations of the world. Judaism has always maintained that Gentiles are free from all of the restrictions contained in the Hebrew Bible except for the Seven Noahide Laws. Now, I understand that Christianity believes that the Hebrew Bible is also part of its Bible but that Christ's grace released everyone from many of the restrictions in Leviticus. Fair enough - either way, Gentiles have no obligation to keep the laws of Leviticus. But for this minister to start "picking and choosing" which portions of the Bible's restrictions are to be given more or less weight is, to me, risky territory. Her comparison of the Bible to a cradle is misguided, in my opinion. Say you want to build a cradle. You say to yourself, "the parts that hold the baby will be built with the strongest materials, while the parts that don't touch the baby will be built of lesser material." Does anyone build a cradle that way? Should part of the cradle be built of solid oak and the rest of flimsy balsa wood? To me, all of the words of God mean what they say and are given equal weight to each other, none less and none more. Once you start to rationalize and change the strength of the words, you weaken the whole thing. |
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