Biblical Law

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BIBLICAL LAW

For those few of you who may be unfamiliar with her, Dr. Laura Schlessinger is an abrasive conservative radio personality who dispenses advice to people who call in to her radio show. Recently she said, as an observant Orthodox Jew, that homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22 and cannot be condoned under any circumstance.

The following is an open letter to Dr. Laura penned by a U.S. resident and posted on the Internet. It's funny, as well as informative:

Dear Dr. Laura:

Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's Law. I
have learned a great deal from your show and try to share that knowledge
with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual
lifestyle, for example, I simply remind them that Leviticus 18:22
clearly states it to be an abomination. End of debate.

I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some of the other
specific laws and how to follow them.

1. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a
pleasing odor for the Lord - Lev.1:9. The problem is my neighbors. They
claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?

2. I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?

3. I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her
period of menstrual uncleanliness - Lev.15:19-24. The problem is, how
do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.

4. Lev. 25:44 states that I may indeed possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?

5. I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself, or should I ask the police to do it?


6. A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination  - Lev. 11:10, it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this? Are there degrees of abomination?

7. Lev. 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle-room here?

8. Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev. 19:27.  How should they die?

9. I know from Lev. 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?

10. My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev. 19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? - Lev.24:10-16. Couldn't we just burn them to death at a private family affair like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev.20:14)

I know you have studied these things extensively and thus enjoy considerable expertise in such matters, so I am confident you can help. Thank you again for reminding us that God's word is eternal and unchanging.

Your devoted disciple and adoring fan.

Jerry

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Comments

Avatar rdgrnr -
#1
jimmy, jimmy, jimmy, what am I gonna do with you?

Must you bore everyone with something from decades ago that has been explained a million times but only recently discovered by you? You have to do better than that, james.

We can see that you're just lashing out because being a Sodomite is a heavy burden to carry and not exactly a popular option in history with what became of your buddies in Sodom and Gomorrah and all.

But we all have our burdens, jimbo, you're just going to have to deal with yours as we all deal with ours.

We still love you, jim-jim!
Avatar Tenaj -
#2
Good job Jerry, however, I believe the conservative view on this is not religious and have nothing to do with the Bible. They want their men to be men and make babies and their women not to have abortions so that they will not be so outnumbered in 30 years. They just use the Bible as a smoke screen. They are heathens just like everyone else but are having less babies and more abortions. Don't post stats or articles about minorities and abortions, we all know you can't count and it will be slanted anyway.
Avatar rdgrnr -
#3
The Bible is never a smoke screen for me, Tenaj. It's the Word of God.
And I'm a sinner.
But I wouldn't even need to read the Bible to feel revulsion at the thought of butchering live, innocent little babies like you Democrats do in your baby slaughter houses.
It's sick, it's twisted, it's disgusting, it's depraved, it's EVIL.
What kind of a monster does it take to butcher a living baby?
An EVIL one, that's what kind.
And what kind of a cold, heartless monster does it take to vote for people who guarantee to keep the baby slaughter houses up and running?
For God's Sakes, stop the killing!
You people have no compassion.
You have no humanity.
You're completely destitute and devoid of something called "the milk of human kindness."
God help us all while you people are running this country.
God help us all.
Avatar rdgrnr -
#4
Comment by jimmy4164 - March 20, 2013, 1:39 pm
"I looks like some people would rather change the subject to the abortion debate in the US rather than deal with the chaos, cancer, death, and destruction that we leave behind in the countries we invade with our bombs and missiles."
_______________________________________

You locked your blog before I could answer you on this goofy statement you made in your March 20th blog, jimbo.
No, I wasn't changing the subject, you were showing deformed and dead Iraqi babies and I was talking about the millions of American babies you Democrats have slaughtered here in this country.
So when you stop killing our American babies, I'll be willing to discuss any ridiculous and phony concerns you have about Iraqi babies, ok?
How about it, Jimbo?
Avatar rdgrnr -
#5
And if you want to see what happens to Christians in those countries you are so worried about, jimbo, just go to religionofpeace.com.
It's open season on Christians by your friends the muslims.
Merry Christmas.
Avatar rdgrnr -
#6
Our Father who art in heaven
Hallowed be thy Name
Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done
On Earth as it is in Heaven
Give us this day our daily bread
And forgive us our trespasses
As we forgive those who trespass against us
And lead us not into temptation
But deliver us from evil
Amen
Avatar rdgrnr -
#7
Hail Mary, full of grace,
The Lord is with thee
Blessed art thou amongst women
And blessed is the Fruit of thy womb, Jesus
Holy Mary, Mother of God
Pray for us sinners
Now and at the hour of our death
Amen
Avatar rdgrnr -
#8
Glory be to the Faher and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be
World with out end, Amen
Avatar rdgrnr -
#9
Glory be to the *Father*...
Avatar rdgrnr -
#10
And The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.
Avatar jarasan -
#11
I think that AIDS started somewhere on some continent by some animal lovers and then brought here by some fruity dude.......... so bestiality, eating monkey meat, and man man butt admiration actually has something in common.   So bible no bible, nature, evolution, has a way of receiving one.
here you go I'll save you the trouble it starts here:

AIDS is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which originated in non-human primates in Sub-Saharan Africa and was transferred to humans during the late 19th or early 20th century.

Two types of HIV exist: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is more virulent, is more easily transmitted and is the cause of the vast majority of HIV infections globally.[1] The pandemic strain of HIV-1 is closely related to a virus found in the chimpanzees of the subspecies Pan troglodytes troglodytes, which lives in the forests of the Central African nations of Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Republic of Congo (or Congo-Brazzaville), and Central African Republic. HIV-2 is less transmittable and is largely confined to West Africa, along with its closest relative, a virus of the sooty mangabey (Cercocebus atys atys), an Old World monkey inhabiting southern Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and western Ivory Coast.[1][2]

Transmission from non-humans to humans

Most HIV researchers agree that HIV evolved at some point from the closely related Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), and that SIV or HIV (post mutation) was transferred from non-human primates to humans in the recent past (as a type of zoonosis). Research in this area is conducted using molecular phylogenetics, comparing viral genomic sequences to determine relatedness.
HIV-1 from chimpanzees and gorillas to humans

Scientists generally accept that the known strains (or groups) of HIV-1 are most closely related to the simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs) endemic in wild ape populations of West Central African forests. Particularly, each of the known HIV-1 strains is either closely related to the SIV that infects the chimpanzee subspecies Pan troglodytes troglodytes (SIVcpz), or to the SIV that infects Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla), called SIVgor.[3][4][5][6][7][8] The pandemic HIV-1 strain (group M or Main) and a very rare strain only found in a few Cameroonian people (group N) are clearly derived from SIVcpz strains endemic in Pan troglodytes troglodytes chimpanzee populations living in Cameroon.[3] Another very rare HIV-1 strain (group P) is clearly derived from SIVgor strains of Cameroon.[6] Finally, the primate ancestor of HIV-1 group O, a strain infecting tens of thousands of people mostly from Cameroon but also from neighboring countries, is still uncertain, but there is evidence that it is either SIVcpz or SIVgor.[5] The pandemic HIV-1 group M is most closely related to the SIVcpz collected from the southeastern rain forests of Cameroon (modern East Province) near the Sangha River.[3] Thus, this region is presumably where the virus was first transmitted from chimpanzees to humans. However, reviews of the epidemiological evidence of early HIV-1 infection in stored blood samples, and of old cases of AIDS in Central Africa have led many scientists to believe that HIV-1 group M early human center was probably not in Cameroon, but rather farther south in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, more probably in its capital city, Kinshasa.[3][9][10][11]

Using HIV-1 sequences preserved in human biological samples along with estimates of viral mutation rates, scientists calculate that the jump from chimpanzee to human probably happened during the late 19th or early 20th century, a time of rapid urbanisation and colonisation in equatorial Africa. Exactly when the zoonosis occurred is not known. Some molecular dating studies suggest that HIV-1 group M had its most recent common ancestor (MRCA) (that is, started to spread in the human population) in the early 20th century, probably between 1915 and 1941.[12][13][14] A study published in 2008, analyzing viral sequences recovered from a recently discovered biopsy made in Kinshasa, in 1960, along with previously known sequences, suggested a common ancestor between 1873 and 1933 (with central estimates varying between 1902 and 1921).[15][16]

Genetic recombination had earlier been thought to "seriously confound" such phylogenetic analysis, but later "work has suggested that recombination is not likely to systematically bias [results]", although recombination is "expected to increase variance".[15] The results of a 2008 phylogenetics study support the later work and indicate that HIV evolves "fairly reliably".[15][17]
Avatar MADDOG10 -
#12
You've got to walk that lonesome valley, you've got to walk it by yourself, nobody else will walk it for you, You've got to walk it by yourself. And that wasn't camouflaged..!
Avatar MADDOG10 -
#13
He rode easy in the saddle, he was tall and lean
At first you thought nothing but a streak of mean
Could make a man look so downright strong
But one look in his eyes and you knowed you was wrong

He was a mountain of a man
And I want you to know he could preach hot hell or freezin' snow
He carried a Bible in a canvas sack
And folks just called him The Reverend Mr. Black

He was poor as a beggar
But he rode like a king
Sometimes in the evening
I could hear him sing

"I got to walk that lonesome valley
I got to walk it by myself
Oh, nobody else can walk it for me
I got to walk it by myself"

If ever I could have thought that this man in black
Was soft and had any yellow up his back
I gave that notion up the day
A lumberjack came in and it wasn't to pray

Yeah, he kicked open the meeting house door
And he cussed everybody up and down the floor
And then when things got quiet in the place
He walked up and cussed in the preacher's face

He hit that Reverend like a kick of a mule
And to my way of thinkin' it took a pure fool
( From: http://www.elyrics.net )
To turn the other cheek to that lumberjack
But that's what he did, The Reverend Mr. Black

He stood like a rock, a man among men
Then he let that lumberjack hit him again
And then with a voice as kind as could be
He cut him down like a big oak tree when he said

"You've got to walk that lonesome valley
You've got to walk it by yourself
Oh, nobody else can walk it for you
You've got to walk it by yourself"

It's been many years since we had to part
And I guess I learned his ways by heart
I can still hear his sermons ring
Down in the valley where he used to sing

I followed him, "Yes, sir", and I don't regret it
Hope that I'll always be a credit to his memory
'Cause I want you to understand
The Reverend Mr. Black was my old man

You've got to walk that lonesome valley
You've got to walk it by yourself
Oh, nobody else can walk it for you
You've got to walk it by yourself

You've got to walk that lonesome valley
You've got to walk it by yourself
Oh, nobody else can walk it for you
You've got to walk it by yourself
Avatar rdgrnr -
#14
That's a good one, DOG.
Avatar rdgrnr -
#15
"Catholic doctrine tells us that the primary duty of charity does not lie in the toleration of false ideas, however sincere they may be, nor in the theoretical or practical indifference towards the errors and vices in which we see our brethren plunged . . . Further, whilst Jesus was kind to sinners and to those who went astray, He did not respect their false ideas, however sincere they might have appeared. He loved them all, but He instructed them in order to convert them and save them."
- Pope St. Pius X, Our Apostolic Mandate, August 25, 1910.
Avatar jackpotismine -
#16
When all is said and done, when you die the truth will be revealed onto you. Until then, good luck proving your different viewpoints and beliefs.
Avatar rdgrnr -
#17
@jackpotismine
If you didn't believe the Law and the Prophets and a Man walking on the water and raising the dead and dying on the Cross to give you eternal life, I'm sure as heck not going to try to prove anything to you.
You'll learn the hard way.
And regret it for eternity.
Avatar rdgrnr -
#18
Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy Name
Thy Kingdome come, thy will be done
On Earth as it is in Heaven
Give us this day our daily bread
And forgive us our trespasses
As we forgive those who trespass against us
And lead us not into temptation
But deliver us from evil
Amen
Avatar jimmy4164 -
#19
Well rdgrnr, you've spelled out your position with clarity. As long as Democrats support the right of a woman to choose when [or whether] she wants to use her body to produce a baby, you will not object to continuous war, which kills a lot of living, breathing children. This logic may work for you, but it leaves me nonplussed.

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