My Problems with the International Community, the UN, and the "Human Rights" Judgment

[sophie]

Yep. That law was for a specific people for a specific reason. I don't have time now, but I'll come back to this.

But that's the law, it's right there in the bible. You can't pick and choose certain lines that sound pleasing to you and throw out the ones that don't. If you say you want to live your life according to the Bible, you have to include all of it, not just the parts that suit your lifestyle...

 

[Brian Shanahan]

But that's the law, it's right there in the bible. You can't pick and choose certain lines that sound pleasing to you and throw out the ones that don't. If you say you want to live your life according to the Bible, you have to include all of it, not just the parts that suit your lifestyle...

But with all the bits that contradict the other bits how are you going to live. Sitting in a cave with a leather full face mask on eating nothing is no fun let me tell you. Anyway even if you want to live literally by all the precepts of the Bible you can't, because various Church councils and mistranslations over the centuries have changed a lot of the original message beyond recognition.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Are you saying that other sects don't consider the Commandments to be basic tenants of their faith?

Some do, some don't.

I'd say that the Great Commandment ("Love your neighbor as yourself") and the Greatest Commandment ("Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind") are most certainly basic tenants of any faith that could be called Christian.

It is however quite reasonable to read the Ten Commandments and the rest of the Law of Moses as something meant specifically for the Israelites, and in no way binding upon gentile Christians. The ten commandments does begin with God identifying himself to and addressing those whose forefathers he led out of Egypt, which is a group to which most of us do not belong.

Orthodox Judaism teaches that the Law of Moses was never meant for gentiles, and that is can actually be sinful for non-Jews to try to adhere to it. Those who accept the law must keep all the commandments, with a particularly strict interpretation for those who were born gentiles and chose the burden of their own free will, but Righteous Gentiles need only be concerned with the Seven Noahide Laws.