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?
No, I am a Christian that recognizes all of Scripture is inspired of God, not just the NT.
>>>"The expression “strange fire” (hr`z` va@) seems imprecise . . .
Your cut and paste job of a definition did not address rw's major point about propriety in worship. (It looks impressive though!)
>>>I'm not Jewish. I don't prepare a blood and incense offering to the Lord.
Was anyone asking? You're kind of forcing the literal here, aren't you?
>>>. . .the thing that was literally the symbol of the final sacrifice of the life of Christ. And done for posterity.
Agree to some extent. Certainly it was a Levitical type but wasn't it also a prescribed modus operandi for the instruction and edification of those then and there present.
>>>>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.
So the believer is to be directed by feelings and tuggings of an unreliable inner nature which is part time under the sway of carnal man, part time under the influence of the Holy Spirit? Furthermore, when under the control of the old sin nature it may not be immediately apparent (ie. coveting a new blue BMW sports car is sinful but may not be construed as such at the time; the schizo mother in Texas felt led of the Lord to do the most heinous of acts). Feelings or "tuggings" are unreliable. That is why we are to walk by "faith" -- the knowledge of Scripture and its use by the Holy Spirit.
Are you Jewish?
Tsk, tsk!
Just because rw used the OT to illustrate a point doesn't mean he is Jewish. Otoh, someone may sincerely ask are you pentecostal/charismatic?
Well stated.