(October 4, 2012 at 7:45 am)pgrimes15 Wrote:(October 2, 2012 at 5:59 pm)Godschild Wrote: This for the Israelite nation only, if an Israelite married outside there people and had children they would not be recognized as an Israelite, therefore not a part of God's people. So Grimesy, off to church you go.
What is the criteria for deciding what parts of the OT are only for jews so can be ignored, and which parts apply to everyone, so must be rigidly adhered to ? If there are some parts which do not apply to non-jews, why not just leave them out of the bible altogether, or at least have a preface listing the passages that do not need to be read ? Come to that, why have some other religions holy book in the bible at all ?
Regards
Grimesy
This is where studying scriptures helps to determine such things, one thing one must do is carefully compare the OT to the NT to find out what applies to whom.
Deut. 23:2 has a companion verse in the NT, which I will look up for you if you like, but this is what it says, that two unlike people (man+ woman only) should not marry, this has nothing to do with race, nationality and ect. it's that a Christian and nonchristian should not marry, this is necessarily what is said in Deut. During the times of Deut. the Israelites were the only peoples to believe in the God of creation. Hope this makes sense, if not I'll try again.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
