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Re: Is God gay? (was Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 7 Mar 2000 00:02:23 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Peter Callaway writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Brown writes: • <snipped list>
> > I can't address most of these, as my memory is horrible, and I don't have a
> > bible handy, but I will haul out my standard response to any citation of
> > Leviticus...
> > Anyone who cites Leviticus as a source for recommended behavior had better
> > be keeping Kosher, and cutting their hair appropriately. Leviticus has a
> > large volume of laws and guidelines, most of which speak to behavior, and
> > most of which are given equal weight under the law.
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> And the fact that my tent isn't x cubits long and y cubits high, and I prefer
> to shake hands on an agreement rather than carve up an ox and walk through the
> middle of it means that most of the Levitical laws I don't practice.
Well, for all intents and purposes, all of Leviticus is given equal weight.
So if you are going to cite it as a source for correct behavior, you should
either cite it as a single work, or disregard it, IMHO. Either Leviticus is
God's law about how to live now, or it is God's law about how to live back
then. Do you see what I'm saying?
> > Out of curiosity, are you a biblical literalist?
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> Larry has me pegged as one (and the splinters are starting to hurt ;-), but I
> would say no. There are a lot of things in the Bible I don't fully understand,
> mostly in the Old Testament, but I'm not Jewish, so I'm not surprised. But on
> the other hand I'm not finished researching the Bible, so things are likely to
> change with respect to my understanding.
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> There are a lot of good laws in Leviticus, a lot of amusing ones, and a few
> that have me saying "Huh?". Should I keep them all? The only answer to that is
> to examine Jesus' life and ask "What did He say we should do?". What he said
> was "Love the Lord your God with all your heart .... and love your neighbour
> as yourself. On this hangs all the laws of all the prophets".
Fair enough. If that is the prime measure, how does homosexuality have
anything to do with it?
> Out of curiosity, do you have a standard response to Deuteronomy, Matthew,
> Mark, Romans, Ephesians, Hebrews, Corinthians ...... ?
No. As books, they are all much more varied than Leviticus, and the response
to them depends completely on chapter/verse, as well as the actual point being
discussed.
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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