This probably is not the appropriate thread but I would like to bring up this point if I may as it is part of your post.
NJ writes:
Looking at the dietary laws, some of the rules appear completely arbitrary. And in the mind of Judaizers, just keeping the Law will make you sqaure with God. And while obedience to God is an amazing thing, we must keep the entire Law! I have Jewish orthodox Jewish friends who seem like they would commit suicide if a piece of pork so much as brushes up against their food and they end up ingesting it.
And yet, they have no moral qualms with hitting on other men's wives! Where is there sense of propriety? Where is their sense of realism? Have they ever stopped to understand the symbolism and the practicality in the dietary laws? This is the same type of spiritual blindness that Jesus indicted the Pharisee's with, who have an intellectual understanding of the Law, but no common sense when it comes to it.
What I am wondering is, if, as a fundamentalist, the Bible is the inerrant dictation from God to humans, how can you pick and choose which parts to believe in? I mean you seem to say the universe was created six days 6k years ago and also contrary to physics, chemistry, and essentially all of geology, there was a worldwide flood? These appear to the best of my knowledge, positions you take regardless of how much harm to Christianity or to the economic and military well-being of the United States it may cause.
Yet you feel as though any OT laws are invalid provided you like shellfish or pork, or perhaps don't want to go to jail for stoning gay people to death? What gives?
What is a Judaizer anyway? a kosher juicer? (sorry)
I guess a new topic is in order concerning how all nearly all fundies can ignore Leviticus and Deuteronomy yet call Genesis the word of God provided it is taken literally and is interpreted according to the gospel of Morris, Ham, Haggard, and Hovind (or is that O'Reilly, Hannity, and Coulter?). I wonder if anyone defending a 6k year old universe or a worldwide flood in conjunction with 'selective interpreting' of such OT laws would even post, or would they run and hide as usual?
Well I find it an interesting question, although narrowing down such a topic to less than half the threads in this forum may prove a challenge.
Edited by anglagard, : Freudian slip - six days ago as opposed to six days 6k years ago
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