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Leviticus: Because We Conveniently Ignored It Last Week
WotanAnubis
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Leviticus.
The third book of the Bible and the source of many, many Internet debates. Most people are somewhat familiar with Leviticus - especially the bits about men sleeping with men and men eating shrimp.
In any case, since Leviticus comes after Exodus but before Numbers, I feel there ought to be a topic about it as well.
So... go forth and discuss Leviticus and the Laws contained therein.
The third book of the Bible and the source of many, many Internet debates. Most people are somewhat familiar with Leviticus - especially the bits about men sleeping with men and men eating shrimp.
In any case, since Leviticus comes after Exodus but before Numbers, I feel there ought to be a topic about it as well.
So... go forth and discuss Leviticus and the Laws contained therein.
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Come on, you craft something as awesome as an ostrich with your divine hand, and then people go and eat them? That's bullshit. I'd be angry too. I might even, say, flood the entire world or drop thousands upon thousands of frogs on someone's city.
If he dropped thousands and thousands of ostriches there wouldn't even be a problem.
He shouldn't have made them delicious.
You guys just gave me my latest facebook status.
Also, why are we discussing Leviticus? Wasn't this one of the ones that was written 10 million years ago by prehistoric sheep herders? Why are we still reading it? We should read Jurassic Park. That;s a great book.
But what does Michael Crichton say?
If you don't move he can't see you.
But...but...they're adorible and you can ride them like in Donkey Kong Country.
And in real life, when lightweight people ride them, they have the most confused look on their face. A confuzzled ostrich is the cutest thing ever.
Yes and no.
In general, all commandments are equal. There are specific cases, however, where they are differentiated.
For instance, there is an understanding that one is supposed to live by the mitzvot (commandments), rather than die by them. From this understanding, it is extrapolated that, except for three specific instances, one should break any commandment to save their own life.
The three exceptions, for the record, are murder this does not, of course, include self-defense), a specific list of sexual improper acts (they are mostly incest related. for the record, homosexuality is NOT on this list), and PUBLIC worship of another god.
Basically, one is supposed to value all mitzvot equally in general, but in specific instances where triage might be neccesary, the choices one should make are heavily suggested.
Lewis Black has a great bit about this.
and those laws are directed at Jews specifically.
I forget the name but there's actually other laws for gentiles
I've heard there's specifically a passage in the new testament that says God revoked all diet restrictions. Is this true or was my friend just bullshitting me?
In fairness, I was calling his eating lobster an abomination before God, just as bad as supporting the evil homosexuals.
Noahide laws. They were seven laws that God gave Noah after the flood.
There are still plenty of other laws that Christians ignore.
There are 613 laws, Christians like to talk about one or two dozen of them.
There definitely aren't 600 dietary laws, I promise you.
It's true, Acts I think.
What happens is that Saul spends some serious time trying to kill all these crazy christian dudes for the Roman empire and fails, those tenacious buggers just won't die out. Shit, the only thing slowing their growth is that whole "Kosher" thing. So after a long trip by himself he says his name is now Paul, non-jewish christians don't have to keep kosher and also, he's totally the boss now. God told him so.
Really, it's almost as "convenient" as John Smith's stuff from the book of Mormon.
Edit: For a more serious source of information the wiki entry isn't bad.
Well, according to Acts, Peter and James--the leaders of the Jewish Christians--also came to believe that Christians were not required to follow all the dietary laws (though they insist that the prohibition against eating bloody meat still applies!) and ceremonial laws. See Acts chapter 15 (and, to a lesser degree, Acts 10-11).
Of course, you might think that the relevant parts of Acts were written by followers of Paul as a way to justify their loose obedience to the Levitical laws. If we think that Acts is a relatively faithful history of the early Christian church, however, then it seems that the decision to retcon most of the Jewish Law was really a committee decision.
Hey, I'm not denying that they're fantastically cool animals. I'm just saying that they're also a perfect match for teriyaki marinade.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+10%3A1-11:18