Sir Spot of Borg wrote on May 20
th, 2012 at 8:48am:
Yadda wrote on May 20
th, 2012 at 2:23am:
Yadda I was told it was actually the jews that believe the stuff in deuteronomy and acknowledged that earlier.
However I still need to hear your thoughts on leviticus.
SOB
No you don't.
You are just 'baiting' me.i
But here goes, anyway.....My attitude towards the OT covenant
and its laws, is that;
If two person's enter into a covenant, and if one party breaks that covenant,
shouldn't the terms of the covenant apply, against the party that transgressed the covenant ?
The OT bible records that the Hebrew people entered into a covenant, with their God.
"...And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.
And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do...."
Exodus 19:5-8
The God of Israel made a covenant with his people,
and,
the Hebrew people made a covenant with their God.
If the Hebrew people transgressed [broke] their side of the covenant, shouldn't those particular people responsible for the transgression of the covenant be punished,
ACCORDING TO THE TERMS OF THE COVENANT ?
Or should people be permitted to ignore the >> PROMISES << which they make ?
And should people be permitted
to do as they please **, and to walk away from their responsibilities
and their commitments to abide by agreements which they have made ?
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Which is lawlessness, in my book!Leviticus 20:24
...I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.
Leviticus 20:26
And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy,
and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
Deuteronomy 7:6
For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
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OT covenant laws applied to the Hebrew people. [ <--- the 'covenant' people. ]
OT covenant laws are NOT binding upon Christians.
OT covenant laws are NOT binding upon Gentiles [i.e. 'infidels'].
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p.s.
And all that a Hebrew person had to do [1,400 BC], to escape those OT covenant laws, was to leave his people,
and to join himself to the world.
And guess what?
We [humanity] have all 'joined ourselves to this world'.
Today, we [all humanity] are all infidels, before God.