Good luck with 613 mosaic laws......
Good luck with 613 mosaic laws......
Matthew 5:17
If you disregard Jesus bringing in the new covenant by doing away with the Old then you are tied to all 611 mosaic laws.
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Indeed,....and even that was too burdensome for most Jews, let alone 'christians' who came along later piggy-backing off the OT, cherry-picking various passages in support of their movement. As TT notes, all those laws were not written for Gentiles, and even the earliest Jewish followers of Jesus prescribed 'laws' for Gentile believers in the new Jesus movement, that they only follow at least 4 fundamental rules (see Jerusalem Council), beyond the universal rule of love,
which is the law that fulfills all laws anyways. In current Christian bibles, the OT is pretty much a fossil museum or encyclopedia with perhaps a few moral codes or universal principles hinted at in type and shadow, while the NT is supposed to be a more clear revelation of grace consummating with the teachings of Jesus himself (even those have been trumped by Paul according to some
).
However,....the Jewish/Christian riff and paradoxical relationship still exists as an anomaly...there being various explanations or resolutions for their differences, at least when seen from a purely traditional-orthodox Jewish and Christian perspective. The sundry messianic movements have attempted to bridge the gap between orthodox Jewish and liberal Christian theologies. (Hebrew roots
)
While the natural procreative order is obviously archetyped in male-female unions, this does not negate or disqualify the value or meaning of homosexual relationships, or transgendered souls, since each have their own place. The prohibitions against same-sex intercourse referred to the
idol worship of pagan gods performed in their temples or sacred groves which often included male and female prostitutes whose sexual acts were 'offerings' made unto their gods. Yahweh, being a jealous god refused any kind of worship like what was given to pagan gods, prohibiting his people (priests primarily) from engaging in such rites. The 'context' indicates acts of worship that are idolatrous...hence their penalty. Seems more like a scare-tactic since very few or no executions are even recorded in scripture, as far as I know....for homosexual unions. If any have any accounts, feel free to share them. Most of the laws and penalties in the OT are even interpreted 'symbolically' today by many modern day Jews, so once again....religions of the book hold onto their 'relics'.
David and Jonathan shared a love even greater or more peculiar than that shared between a man and a woman. - while this may not have included sexual relations, its there none-the-less. The fact remains that God loves all His children regardless of their sexual orientation or gender-identification. In a more purely spiritual sense, our mystical union with God in Christ transcends gender altogether, although our relationship to gender remains but a feature of the soul's expression of love....so that our expression of love with any soul, regardless of their gender becomes as an act of worship, and if joined by love there can be no sin in it.
