(September 8, 2012 at 3:13 am)padraic Wrote:(September 7, 2012 at 4:32 pm)Stimbo Wrote: They're very fond of selected bits of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, though. Some might even say a little too fond.
Yeah, and that has always puzzled me. Christians are also very fond of claiming Jesus abrogated 603 of the 613 commandments which make up Mosaic law (ignoring Jesus' admonition given in Matthew 5:17-19)
Naturally, Christian apologists claim that verse is one of many in the Bible which doesn't mean what it says. That's the really handy thing about an authority based belief system; people will believe what ever they are told,no mater how absurd.
I see it differently. Of course Jesus, that wild apocalyptic Zionist zealot would have insisted on all Christians becoming Jews first and obeying every jot and tittle of the law of Moses as he said in the Sermon on the Mount but thank goodness, St Paul came into the picture and changed the religion of Jesus. Imagine if we have to follow those crazy commandments in Mosaic law!! There's one about cutting off the hand of the woman if two men were to fight and she touches one man's groin. I mean the writer of Moses' Law must have been drunk when he wrote that.
I'm glad the church left out that part of the law. To follow the law would be to allow desert barbarism into our wonderful English cathedrals. No, we can't have that.
