interesting

[swansonjohnsonjr]

i have been reading through the book of leviticus lately and there are mad rules to abide by in there

im not talking about thou shalt not kill and all that obvious stuff but i mean there are some real crazy things in there

i believe that sin is sin no matter which way you color it but how come all of what we have in leviticus isnt still considered sin but some of it is

and how come we as the children of God dont have to do all the rules and regs in leviticus

this is hard because there are somethings that many people disagree on in leviticus

one thing it says is that we are not to mix our fabrics in our clothing

now we might instantly dismiss this as silly but in the same dissertation it talks about things like homosexuality and and *bleep*

all three of these things are considered pretty bad things

now we that know Christ know that He died for our sins and it must needs be that He died for all of them because not one of us can say we are without sin and theh bible clearly states that if we break one part of Gods law then we break the whole thing

another funny thing is that abraham broke Gods law and God never said anything about it but thats a different topic

i think my point is that we are clean

not by our own doing but by Gods doing

now what do we do

do we do away with the "big" sins in our lives only or do we deal also with the little things

does it bother us as much to wear mixed fabric clothing as it does to be involved in beastility

i mean i know they are different kinds of sin but that doesnt mean that one is bigger than the other

again i know Christ cleansed fully but what now

[liljp617]

The Book of Leviticus was not written for the layman (in this case, the average Israelite).  It was written for Levite priests.  That bit of context is worth noting.

As for why people abide by some of the terms in the Bible and not others: Because it doesn't suit them, along with most people today who claim to be religious actually being "fakers" for lack of a better word.  A great number of them likely haven't opened the Bible, much less actually read and analyzed the writing and put it into historical and social context.  Not saying this is the majority or even a substantial minority, but I don't think it's much of a debate that religion has basically become a social requirement in the US at least, and thus many people who don't hardly know a thing about Christianity will avidly self-proclaim themselves Christians.  People cherry-pick every part of the Bible, not just Leviticus or the OT.

Whether this is good or bad is up to one's opinion.  From one perspective, the Bible has to be cherry-picked in order to make sense.  It was passed down orally for centuries before being written down, then it was translated into dozens and dozens of languages and dialects (sometimes by people who didn't know the language being translated that well), edited multiple times, had entire books and sections cut out, etc.  If you don't cherry-pick it, you're going to get contradictions constantly.