> Certainly a whole host of laws from keeping kosher to keeping the sabbath seem to be on a pick and choose basis, which has always made me a little cynical about the choice to pay lip service to Leviticus only where homosexuality is concerned.
do the jewish people stone adulterers where you live?
how about homosexuals?
soothsayers/crypto-pagans/fortune tellers?
stay out of the synagogue when you have ejaculated until taking a ritual purity bath?
etc, etc, etc.
not to harp or seem anti-jewish, but picking and choosing happens everywhere -
it's the broader context and totality of being pure/godly/etc that is important, which is (kind of) Jesus' whole point.. (see also healing on sabbath, etc)
but yes, christians are not concerned generally with fulfilling the law of moses as a whole.. that said there is tradition and rationale around what guides christian morality/ethical code, though various groups do/do not pay attention to this accordingly..
do you stone adulterers where you live? how about homosexuals? soothsayers/crypto-pagans/fortune tellers? stay out of the synagogue when you have ejaculated until taking a ritual purity bath?
Me? No, but I make “lapsed” seem observant. Plenty of Jews do all of what you describe though, it’s why you’ll find a mikveh in most communities for example. Jewish orthodoxy is sort of famous for being extremely into all of the rules, right down to mixing certain fabrics. Still I take your overall point, and certainly it doesn’t seem to be anti-Jewish or anything of the sort.
do the jewish people stone adulterers where you live? how about homosexuals? soothsayers/crypto-pagans/fortune tellers? stay out of the synagogue when you have ejaculated until taking a ritual purity bath?
etc, etc, etc.
not to harp or seem anti-jewish, but picking and choosing happens everywhere - it's the broader context and totality of being pure/godly/etc that is important, which is (kind of) Jesus' whole point.. (see also healing on sabbath, etc)
but yes, christians are not concerned generally with fulfilling the law of moses as a whole.. that said there is tradition and rationale around what guides christian morality/ethical code, though various groups do/do not pay attention to this accordingly..