RE: Leviticus only applies to the Levites
June 24, 2014 at 2:36 pm
(This post was last modified: June 24, 2014 at 3:36 pm by RobbyPants.)
(June 24, 2014 at 10:17 am)vorlon13 Wrote: And how about an accolade for RobbyPants for at least trying, if not succeeding, in getting a Christian to explain cafeteria-ism !!!!
Yeah, I was mostly reading and barely posting in a discussion, then he just sort of threw it out there. I thought "No way! I've never seen this before. I have to see how far he runs with it."
What gets me is, there's so many other commonly accepted (among believers) excuses out there, so why go this route?
(June 24, 2014 at 10:17 am)vorlon13 Wrote: I have really wondered (and tried myself) to get somebody in the Christian orbit to explain the criteria used in picking and choosing what scriptures they will submit to and what scriptures they won't. Nobody wants to go on record for that one.
Oh, God. That's not a fun read. They'll make some extremely lengthy posts and bust out a bunch of theological terms for why verse A justifies verse B, and why together, you have to take verse C in a certain way, and anything else is heresy.
I'm kind of saddened when I see how much effort they put into this, and at the end of the day, they say it's super important to deny groups of people equal treatment.
(June 24, 2014 at 1:53 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: To put it simply.
The book of Leviticus explains to the priesthood (Levites) how they were to preform their duties.
And 1st and 2nd Corinthians was addressed to a specific church in Corinth. It wasn't addressed to "all Christians now and in the future".
Nitpick: in the OP, that should be "Galatia", not "Galilee".
So, the guy apparently dropped the subject. His answer was to tell me to "ask God", then throw another non-answer out there about Leviticus applying to the priests of Levi (despite the fact that the epistles are each addressed to a different group, specifically). I told him I was asking him since he was the one making the claim, and he hasn't bitten.
So, there we have it, from the horse's mouth: the official answer to why Leviticus only applies to the Levites, but 1st and 2nd Corinthians applies to all Christians present and future is "ask God".
