Mine, which I believe to be Biblical, is that we must search for what God tells us to do and not go invent our own forms of worship.
Those who are criticizing Leviticus and myself seem to believe that instead of looking for what God wants us to do, we can just do anything we merrily choose as long as it is not expressely forbidden.
It is a bit disturbing that so many modern Christias have an attitude that "what can I do in worship that tickles my flesh that I can get away with?"
Ponder this...
"Leviticus 8 & 9 Aaron and his sons are consecrated for the priesthood. Garments were made and sacrifices offered to enable the priest to stand before God. One sign of God’s pleasure with Israel’s faithfulness is the reaction of God when Aaron made a sin offering. “And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of meeting, and came out and blessed the people. Then the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people and fire came out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and fat on the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces” (Leviticus 9.23-24).
Such a display by God showed His pleasure. The time span between Chapters 9 & 10 is not given; yet, one would think everyone present understood they should do exactly what God said. However, Nadab and Abihu, two of Aaron’s sons, offered “strange fire before the Lord’ (Leviticus 10.1). God punished them by consuming them with the fire.
There are some important lessons we can learn from this passage. First, God did not care who sinned or how faithful they had been. Second, to do that which is not authorized is sin. God told them where to get the fire but Nadab and Abihu got their fire from a different source.
God did not have to say where to not get the fire He simply specified where they could get the fire. That made every other fire wrong. Third, there was nothing that Aaron or Moses could do for these two priests. In fact, Aaron and his other two sons were told to stay in the tabernacle lest they die also. They were set apart to serve God and that is what God intended for them to do. Finally, God intends for man to treat Him as Holy. Those who think of God as a man or He will approve of changes in His Law will be sorely disappointed on the Day of Judgment. The next time you hear “The Bible doesn’t say not to,” or, “I don’t see anything wrong with it.” Remember that Nadab and Abihu thought the same thing."
You miss the point of the story. Their hearts were in the wrong place. They were acting with arrogance. They were puting themselves in the place of God.
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Just some quick notes from Bible.org on Leviticus 10 1:
"The expression “strange fire” (hr`z` va@) seems imprecise and has been interpreted numerous ways (see the helpful summary in Hartley, Leviticus [WBC] 132-133). The infraction may have involved any of the following or a combination thereof: (1) using coals from someplace other than the burnt offering altar (i.e., “unauthorized coals” according to Milgrom, Leviticus 1-16 [AB], 598; cf. Lev 16:12 and cf. “unauthorized person” rz` vya! in Num 16:40 [17:5 HT], NASB “layman”), (2) using the wrong kind of incense (cf. the Exod 30:9 regulation against “strange incense” hr`z` tr#f)q= on the incense altar and the possible connection to Exod 30:34-38), (3) performing an incense offering at an unprescribed time (Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 59), or (4) entering the Holy of Holies at an inappropriate time (Lev 16:1-2)."
I'm not Jewish. I don't prepare a blood and incense offering to the Lord.
Christ was my offering once and for all, and this offering was prepared by the Lord.
Furthermore, it appears that they disobeyed some strict rules about a very important thing, the thing that was literally the symbol of the final sacrifice of the life of Christ. And done for posterity.
We in fact CAN do whatever we merrily choose that is not expressly forbidden as long as it does not conflict with the tuggings of the spirit, which dwells in the heart of every believer.
We are sinning if we look at internet porn even if the Bible is silent on the internet, photos or even paintings.
But this music judgementalism is sounding more and more like a Talibanesque sort of thing. I thank God that neither you nor I am God. It wouldn't be pretty.
Are you Jewish?