Read your Bible — it’s all there: If all marriage laws were based in Leviticus

[kpete]

[mainer]

1. This is great! I just shared it on Twitter

Needs to be passed along to everyone.

[varelse]

2. This is kickass

and I will be sharing it

[sufrommich]

3. That's going straight to my facebook. Thank you ! nt

[VWolf]

4. Funny .... then beautiful n/t

[Jim Lane]

5. Is that guy's shirt a poly/cotton blend?

IIRC that's also prohibited by the same chapter in Leviticus that preaches homophobia.

[SmileyRose]

6. wow

Kick

[Kurmudgeon]

7. Leviticus is priest law, same ones who crucified Christ.

[snot]

8. Is Leviticus the sole source in the Bible for the prohibition against homosexual relations?

[agentS]

9. Wonderful video! Great find, OP!

Ah, good old Leveticus... he was one weird chap...

At the same time I have been reading through the Book of Numbers after just finishing up with the Book of Leviticus and if you thought the ruling on the baseball field was a little strict take a look at some of these. Don’t wear clothes made of more than one fabric (Leviticus 19:19) Do not cut your hair nor shave. (Leviticus 19:27) Any person who curseth his mother or father, must be killed. (Leviticus 20 ) People who have flat noses, or is blind or lame, cannot go to an altar of God. (Leviticus 21:17-18)
Looking at those rules in the Book of Leviticus, umpire Alfonso Marquez should call me out. Right now, I’m pretty sure that I’m wearing a shirt made out of two different types of fabric, I got my hair cut last week and I’m sure that at least once in my life I have cursed either my mother or my father. As for having a flat nose or anything I believe I can still go to the altar but I better ask the opinion of Alfonso first.
Now I make fun of these rules but at the same time the Israelites had to obey them just like Michael Young should not have touched the third base coach. You think to yourself also, if these rules are in the Bible why don’t we follow them? Many would say that we are in the New Testament and those rules in the Old Testament are not for us. It’s an interesting argument, especially since the Ten Commandments are in the Old Testament and then that allows for me to kill, steal and lie. On top of all that Jesus says, “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.” (Matthew 5:17)
What also is interesting is that Ephesians 2:15 says, “By abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace.” Now looking at those two verses we need to ask the question, did Jesus abolish the Old Testament law or did He fulfill it, because we seem to have a contradiction. The best way to explain this is that Christ’s life and death met the requirements of the Old Testament law. At the same time, Christ’s death and resurrection removed the law as an obstacle to coming to God, replacing it with salvation by faith in Christ’s finished work and with his sin free life and sacrificial death Christ perfectly kept both the letter and the spirit of the law.
Other than Jesus, no one can perfectly obey God’s law. The law is merely a mirror or a standard for us to look at and to see how we are living our lives. We cannot disregard the law because then we would be able to kill, steal and lie, but at the same time if we are to wear the clothing made of more than one fabric or if we get our hair cut we need to remember that these laws were made to make the Israelites to stand out different from the other nations. To obey laws such as these we simply need to be different in our standards and in what we do.

[agentS]

10. Wonderful video! Great find, OP!

Ah, good old Leveticus... he was one weird chap...
http://www.glencoefpa.com/page14/files/b9182751dcd6ecb55f4f2544fb7f6c48-9.html

At the same time I have been reading through the Book of Numbers after just finishing up with the Book of Leviticus and if you thought the ruling on the baseball field was a little strict take a look at some of these. Don’t wear clothes made of more than one fabric (Leviticus 19:19) Do not cut your hair nor shave. (Leviticus 19:27) Any person who curseth his mother or father, must be killed. (Leviticus 20 ) People who have flat noses, or is blind or lame, cannot go to an altar of God. (Leviticus 21:17-18)
Looking at those rules in the Book of Leviticus, umpire Alfonso Marquez should call me out. Right now, I’m pretty sure that I’m wearing a shirt made out of two different types of fabric, I got my hair cut last week and I’m sure that at least once in my life I have cursed either my mother or my father. As for having a flat nose or anything I believe I can still go to the altar but I better ask the opinion of Alfonso first.
Now I make fun of these rules but at the same time the Israelites had to obey them just like Michael Young should not have touched the third base coach. You think to yourself also, if these rules are in the Bible why don’t we follow them? Many would say that we are in the New Testament and those rules in the Old Testament are not for us. It’s an interesting argument, especially since the Ten Commandments are in the Old Testament and then that allows for me to kill, steal and lie. On top of all that Jesus says, “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.” (Matthew 5:17)
What also is interesting is that Ephesians 2:15 says, “By abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace.” Now looking at those two verses we need to ask the question, did Jesus abolish the Old Testament law or did He fulfill it, because we seem to have a contradiction. The best way to explain this is that Christ’s life and death met the requirements of the Old Testament law. At the same time, Christ’s death and resurrection removed the law as an obstacle to coming to God, replacing it with salvation by faith in Christ’s finished work and with his sin free life and sacrificial death Christ perfectly kept both the letter and the spirit of the law.
Other than Jesus, no one can perfectly obey God’s law. The law is merely a mirror or a standard for us to look at and to see how we are living our lives. We cannot disregard the law because then we would be able to kill, steal and lie, but at the same time if we are to wear the clothing made of more than one fabric or if we get our hair cut we need to remember that these laws were made to make the Israelites to stand out different from the other nations. To obey laws such as these we simply need to be different in our standards and in what we do.