Four questions for Christians

[Consilius]

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Homosexuality isn't a sin, either.

What type of Roman Catholic are you, precisely? Obviously, you are more progressive than the Church.
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The condition of being homosexual is not condemned by Catholics. They are against gay sex and marriage, which I couldn't care less about.

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Sin is disobedience to a command.

So if god tells you to rape young virgins, as he did in the OT to not do so, is a sin? Or better yet if a crying baby is found on the battle field and you don't dash it upon the rocks would that be a sin?

Are you only required to keep the ten commandments or do the other 613 mitvoh apply? Failure to obey which of these is sin?

The Jews needed no urging to take revenge on their enemies. It was their imperfect standard. Hypothetically, having mercy on one of these people would have been progressive at the time. But this never happened. God acted according to their standard and weaned them off of it, completing the act with Christ. In the same way, Christ followed Jewish laws only to tell the Jews later that they were not salvation in themselves. The punitive justice of these soldiers was inherently good, but they had to be taught to stop doing it themselves and leave it to God.
The killing of these women and children could have been a coup de grace to the Amalekite nation, as the men had to be killed, but the women and children they left behind were vulnerable to the desert climate and foreign tribes.

What is so significant about the Sabbath that no work could be done?

God was telling his people to lose confidence in their labor and restore it in him.

So pork was incidental and the entire mosaic law was meaningless aside from it relevance in instituting limits to gauge obedience?

The laws coincided with the Jewish culture. Pigs, for example, could have been considered as dirty animals.