Me too.
Although I know we would differ on our assessment of the Biblical.
"Given the choice between a Biblical and a post-Biblical moral code/ceremonial, I choose the Biblical."
Me too.
Although I know we would differ on our assessment of the Biblical.
It seems I'm being misunderstood again.
When I said "post Biblical ritual and ceremonial" it was precisely the ancient churches I had in mind. They declared that Leviticus was "fulfilled" and then came up with a table of holidays, rituals, ceremonials, laws, and commandments to take its place.
All chrstian ceremonials are post-Biblical because there is no "Leviticus" in the "new testament." The entire thing evolved slowly over centuries, whereas the Laws of the Torah were literally spoken by G-d.
American Fundamentalist Protestantism doesn't have a ritual or ceremonial of any kind, because innate total depravity makes all human effort futile. I once had no trouble believing that the Torah had been "fulfilled" in in order to replace it with a loophole, but to replace one ritual system with another simply makes no sense. We already had one.