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To: Bob434

And you regulate your life by the Old Testament in other ways, right? You don’t eat pork or shellfish, you never work on the Sabbath (Saturday), you don’t cut the hair on the sides of your head, and you never eat cheeseburgers.


31 posted on 03/24/2017 10:19:16 PM PDT by Hootowl
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To: Hootowl; Bob434

That’s a secular humanist argument about the Old Testament that isn’t faithful to the Bible.

The prohibitions against things like eating pork are worded like, “this shall be an abomination UNTO YOU.”

“5 And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. 6 And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. 7 And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you. 8O their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.” (Leviticus 11)

“Unto you” is used again and again. And the Lord makes clear that these prohibitions were given by Him in order to separate and sever the Israelites from other people. These prohibitions would effectively put up a wall between His Chosen People and everyone else:

“22 Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out. 23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. 24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey:

“I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people. 25 Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean. 26 And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.” (Leviticus 20)


73 posted on 03/25/2017 9:25:28 AM PDT by Faith Presses On (Above all, politics should serve the Great Commission, "preparing the way for the Lord.")
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To: Hootowl

That’s the argument I always get from stooges promoting the homosexual agenda,


81 posted on 03/25/2017 6:31:40 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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