Why Don't Christians Have A Jubilee Year Like In The Bible

[pocaracas]

hmm.... strange... I thought they had one of those a few years ago...
Maybe it's a catholic thing... or maybe it had another name...

[professor]

Part of the Jubilee was a "Rest" (or Sabbath /shemeta) every 7 years (like the days of the week concluding in a rest day), then at the end of the 7th rest year there would come a greater Rest year- the 50th / Jubilee.
This is probably why the fiftieth year in marriage is called the Jubilee anniversary. At least I recall that.
A side note is in free market (or semi- free) systems- crushing debt would not occur as the year of Release would always loom ahead.
Thus, the crashes and panics history has observed would not be happening as outline in the Kondratieff Wave principle.

[Thumpalumpacus]

so christianity is just judaism 2.0 savior edition.

And buggy as all hell. The need to issue a patch or something.

They're terrified of patches ... after all, patches help smokers quit.

[dyresand]

And buggy as all hell. The need to issue a patch or something.

They're terrified of patches ... after all, patches help smokers quit.

They need one a new savior and a new god. I'm thinking a all peaceful loving hippie god and hippie savior.

[watchamadoodle]

I recently read that the idea of a Jubilee year was not original to Judaism. Apparently this practice was common in near eastern cultures. Sometimes a new ruler would declare something like a Jubilee year. As a result many of the cuneiform contracts explicitly exempted the transaction from any future Jubilee.

[Drich]

I understand that wikipedia is not a good source but there definition of the Hebrew Jubilee is easy to understand

The Jubilee (Hebrew yovel יובל) year is the year at the end of seven cycles of shmita (Sabbatical years), and according to Biblical regulations had a special impact on the ownership and management of land in the Land of Israel; there is some debate whether it was the 49th year (the last year of seven sabbatical cycles, referred to as the Sabbath's Sabbath), or whether it was the following (50th) year. Jubilee deals largely with land, property, and property rights. According to Leviticus, slaves and prisoners would be freed, debts would be forgiven and the mercies of God would be particularly manifest. Leviticus 25:8-13 states:

Many of my religious friends tithe because they feel that giving ten percent is required of them from the bible. The New Testament does not talk about tithing so they are looking at Old Testament laws.

If you happen to live during that 49th year, it would be nice to have your debt forgiven or be freed from prison.

The short answer is the OT laws were subdivided into three categories. The moral code, social law, dietary/hygiene laws.

The holy-days and traditional observances were considered to be apart of the social laws. Only the 'moral code' was brought over to christianity.

[Nope]

How do they decide what is a moral law or not? The Jubilee sounds like a lot of fun and your debt is forgiven.

It might not be a good thing to release a serial rapist, of course.

The bible instructed farmers not to plow the corners of their field so that the poor could gather food. That seems like a positive rule and sounds more moral then don't have sex before marriage. Why did that rule go by the wayside and the ones about premarital sex remain in Christianity? Does Christianity care more about sex between consenting adults then it does helping the poor?

[dyresand]

How do they decide what is a moral law or not? The Jubilee sounds like a lot of fun and your debt is forgiven.

It might not be a good thing to release a serial rapist, of course.

The bible instructed farmers not to plow the corners of their field so that the poor could gather food. That seems like a positive rule and sounds more moral then don't have sex before marriage. Why did that rule go by the wayside and the ones about premarital sex remain in Christianity? Does Christianity care more about sex between consenting adults then it does helping the poor?

god hates people having sex without being tied down. then again marriage is kind of non existent when you go to heaven I.E. till death do us part so have all the fun you want.

[Drich]

Sorry the moral code, societal laws,which included dietary and hygene, then there were religious observances.

The moral code would center around but not limited by how one conducts himself and his obligation to his neighbor.