[cuban leaf]

An orthodox jew I worked with in the mid-90’s told me about this. They had a blue thread in their “apron”, but the snail went extinct so, what to do. They voted on whether to find some other source to have a blue thread, or just go without. They voted to go without.

All that law stuff in the old testament is the equivalent of the laws of the US. It is the law crated for a theocracy - A theocracy that no longer exists. That is why so much of it, regarding food, etc, is so similar - yet intentionally different in some ways - to cultures contemporaneous with theirs.

[texas booster]

Now an exhibit at the Bible Lands Museum, “Out of the Blue” explores the mystery of how the alluring color became associated with nobility and divinity alike, how it was lost and then found, and even offers visitors take-home kits to create blue cotton thread the way Jesus and his followers did long ago.

I knew that there had to be a book review or a traveling museum piece somewhere to get a reporter to look at this.

And now I want to see the exhibit myself. So it worked.

[Biggirl]

Yet in the USA, there is a plant called the indigo flower which produces a blue color.

[mrobisr]

“All that law stuff in the old testament is the equivalent of the laws of the US. It is the law crated for a theocracy”

Sorry, but you couldn’t be more wrong if you tried.

The law was given to set apart(sanctify) Israel and to show us what sin looks like. In the perfect sense it was set to lead us to Jesus Christ. U.S. law was crated with the Law of Moses as the example for a moral God fearing people.

[CJ Wolf]

Laws change. Times change. Jesus’s messages are timeless.