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Article #12278Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
From: The Loan Arranger
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:26
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:26
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rbwinn wrote: > There was no question about it in Jewish society of that time. The > law of Moses gave the penalty of death for homosexual behavior. ... > Since Jesus Christ's ministry was entirely within the society of > Israelites, the subject of homosexuality never even came up. All > Israelites knew that homosexuality was a sin. On the other hand, women during menstruation were ritually unclean, and may not be touched or even spoken to by men; yet Jesus permitted a woman with menorrhagia to touch his robe, and even talked with her as an equal, something that would have been unthinkable within, as you put it, the society of Israelites. So he was perfectly capable of ignoring, setting aside, or running against the prevailing Mosaic law - in fact, he claimed to have superseded it. What's to say that homosexuality was any more repugnant to him than contact and speech with the ritually unclean (something he made a habit of doing)? Certainly not any of his teachings. You can't have it both ways. Either the Mosaic Writ was set aside by Jesus, and the books completely rewritten accorindg to his new teachings, or it wasn't - and it's not up to you to pick and choose what you like and what you don't from each set of rules, is it? If you really believe in a fundamental truth in scripture, you can't treat religious rules as a pick'n'mix. TLA
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