Why do some care about rules about gay people but ignore rule about shrimp, rape, and stoning women?

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02/04/2019 17:31

Subject: Why do some care about rules about gay people but ignore rule about shrimp, rape, and stoning women?

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I don't believe the OP is asking this "sincerely" as he said in his post. I think this is the same OP that brings shrimp into any discussion that is even remotely relevant.

But for everyone else:
1. Shrimp. God never says it's a "sin." He says don't eat it. The Jews lived in the desert with no refrigeration. Makes perfect sense. (Then see Acts 9, where God declares all food "clean," and Peter totally gets the analogy that God loves everyone, Jews and Gentiles alike, not just Jews. It's the same as if I told my son, don't hit your sister (it's wrong) and don't cross the street without looking both ways (it's a bad idea because you might get hurt).
2. Homosexuality. The "Jesus didn't mention it" overlooks that in Christianity, Christ is the Word, so that if it's in the Bible it's from Christ, whether it's in red letters or quote marks or whatever. Also, Chris uniformly condemns "fornication," and He has a Jewish audience, who know that "fornication" includes homosexuality, and even things spelled out like "don't have sex with your aunt." And unlike the stupid shrimp thing, which is EXPLICITLY done away with in the New Testament, the condemnation of homosexuality is repeated, in exactly as many references, in the New Testament, as is all forms of fornication.
3. Rapists have to marry their victims. If you give it some thought, this is meant as a deterrent. "It was consensual" isn't a defense, because marriage is prescribed for that, as well. This is a law of protection for women in Leviticus. You might think it sounds icky today, but at least trying to understand the intent of this item is really helpful. And understanding this from the point of the history of that culture and time would be helpful, too, as a woman who had been defiled because unmarriable, and after her father dies, she has no protection. And if you're inclined to do a little raping on the weekend, you would understand you'd end up attached to someone and having to provide for her welfare FOREVER.
4. Killing adulteresses. Yeah, it seems harsh. You guys all hate Christianity, but you seem to not understand that the Christian era is what brought an end to things like this and has made humanity throughout more, well, humane. The law handed down by Moses from the LORD began like this, "Root out the evil from among you." Adultery is an evil. It has victims. And the Jews are presented in the Old Testament as the people through whom the Messiah was brought. Without them, we have no Jesus. Without Jesus, you die in your sins. Which is a really bad thing to do. God set apart the Jews from the surrounding populations, which committed child sacrifice, temple prostitution, raping (without marrying anyone), pillaging, murdering, worshiping statues, all that. God's point was, "Don't be like them. I'm using you to redeem all mankind." So there was to be no tolerance of things like that. And that punishment should give US cause to see how bad it really is. And incidentally, in John 8 in the New Testament, when Jesus tells everyone who didn't sin to go ahead and throw stones at a woman caught in adultery, He was showing that God would now do the judging, and we're supposed to take care of our own sins, by trusting in Christ. And this was because Christ HAD NOW COME INTO THE WORLD. He made His own testimony about Himself, and he no longer needed to protect the people through whom He came.

And why don't Christians follow this? BECAUSE WE'RE NOT JEWISH. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that the Levitical laws were given to the Jews. And it doesn't take a rocket scientist to also see that the Bible also still considers that there is such a thing as sin. It even spells them out.

And for the pick-and-choose poster, please save that argument for until after you've read Romans and Hebrews all the way through so that you can understand how the Old Testament and New Testament stand side-by-side and no one is picking or choosing anything.