Quote (DrFetus @ Nov 3 2013 04:59pm)
Firstly, please support your explanation with concrete scriptural text explaining your answer. Okay here it is, provide me with an answer of why the book of Leviticus should not be taken seriously enough to follow it's rules/guidelines? Example, clean and unclean foods. Is it morally acceptable to eat pork? To eat seafood that dwells in the depths of the ocean that collect heavy metals? According to the book of Leviticus, these types of foods would be considered unclean. Why do believers read this in scripture and eat these foods, knowing that it says it is unclean? However, I realize that in the book of Leviticus it says, along the lines of, those who commit adultery will be stoned to death. Sounds hardcore to me. Help me out here
17 After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable. 18 “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? 19 For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)
20 He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. 21 For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23 All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
Jesus came to fulfill the law.
Matthew 5:1717 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
We are no longer slaves to the law, but slaves to the Spirit.
Romans 7:4-64 So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. 5 For when we were in the realm of the flesh,[a] the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. 6 But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
Through the sacrifice of Christ we are no longer bound to the Old Law.
We believe, we repent from our sins (not merely saying we're sorry but actually turning from our sinful ways and doing good [Luke 13, Acts 26:20, Galatians 5:19-21, etc.]) and we're baptized for the forgiveness of our sins.
After that we live with a repentant heart, as a part of a body of fellow disciples of Christ, and praise God for the grace He showed us on the cross.
Also Acts 10:9-16 is where Peter receives the vision from God making all foods clean.
This post was edited by DiS505 on Nov 22 2013 01:35pm