"What if" games can be played all day long and accomplish little to nothing.
I believe the Bible completely and fully.
Do you also believe the teachings of "the church" fully and completely? For many many many years "the church" would kill people for questioning their teachings. Such as their teaching that the sun revolves around the earth and that the earth is flat.
You are allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness (Lev. 15:19-24). That must cause many troubles at the office. I'm just wondering how you know who is and who isnt.
I have a neighbour who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself?
I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?
Lev. 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle room here?
Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev.19:27. How should they die?
My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev. 19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? (Lev.24:10-16).
I know you have studied these things extensively, so I am confident you can help. Thank you again for reminding us tha that God's word is eternal and unchanging.
Go back and read the New Testament and then we'll talk.
I am not Roman Catholic and do not "follow the church" or look to the Pope and his predecessors/successors as God’s human leader of world Christianity. They may not be the only folks who follow the church but they are the first ones I think of. I do not think Catholics are "Bad" or "Evil" so don't start calling me a Catholic basher because I am not. Jesus was killed in part because he did not follow the teachings of the church.
As for the rest of the passages in your inquiry from the Old Testament. I am not an Orthodox Jew and these particular passages from the Mosaic Law which was directed to the Jewish people. Jesus came to fulfill the law and takes our sins on his shoulders to be killed but rise again in three days. He did this because man could not live by the laws of God and had become hypocrites following the traditions of man and not God. I do not know why Orthodox Jews do not follow all of these laws but as for me, Jesus died so that I would not be held to the mosaic laws that where handed down to the Jews. You need to ask the Jews about these laws.