RE: My Revelation
July 18, 2023 at 3:26 pm
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2023 at 3:35 pm by Bucky Ball.)
(July 18, 2023 at 3:11 pm)Lek Wrote:(July 18, 2023 at 2:16 pm)Deesse23 Wrote: What is your reading of Leviticus 20:13 then?
Pretty clear. He's telling the Israelites to put practicing homosexual men to death. Why? I'm don't know. I'm not under the old testament law and I certainly don't want to execute homosexuals for sleeping together. I don't even want to make it illegal. We can't legislate morality.
But you are under *some* of the OT law, right.
In Matthew, Jesus told the young man who asked him what he had to do to gain eternal life.
"Keep the commandments".
He also never said anything about a "new law" or new covenant.
In fact he specifically said there would be no new covenant.
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished."
Matthew 5:17-18 Paul made up the "new covenant".
You cherry pick what you want from the OT, and what you don't.
There were no "homosexuals" in the OT. The concept (of orientation) didn't arise until the 19th Century.
What you're doing has a name. You're committing "Presentism". It's a "thing" in History.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentism..._analysis)
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell
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