(January 1, 2012 at 5:42 pm)Godschild Wrote: Since we do not live in desert camps and the toilet has it's place in our homes God knows we are smart enough to know this commandment only applies to those who might live in a similar situation as the Israelites did at that time.
That certainly makes sense.
Though it does also raise a question: which of the other commandments are inapplicable to modern age non-desert dwellers, and how do we know that your god is OK with it?
Furthermore, absent divine instruction applicable to our own living situation, how are we to know what we are supposed to be doing?
For example, is there anyone we should smite? There aren't many Canaanites around here, to be sure.
The point of this being - if non-Israelite humans are smart enough to figure out for themselves what laws and sanitary practices are needed for good living, why would the Isrealites need such instruction? Were they too stupid to figure it out? Or were the laws not from god, but were those very things that the Isrealites figured out for themselves and wrote into law?
