Why not? Why not obey Leviticus 19.19? Did Jesus ever permit you to not follow it?

Question

'Keep my decrees.
" 'Do not mate different kinds of animals.
" 'Do not plant your field with two kinds of seed.
" 'Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material.

Leviticus 19.19

Answer 1

When you mate a horse and a donkey you get a mule,the mule can not reproduce.If you plant a field with two kinds of seed it may cross germinate and the out come might ruin your crops.If you sew together unlike materials the chance of it ripping apart at the seams is high.
These were given to people who didn't have a lot of science, they needed to be told.
This is a statute not a law.As with the Laws of cleanliness as knowledge grew there were ways to deal with the things under statutes and cleanliness.Christ never spoke on the subject other than to say you were defile by the things that issue from the heart and mind not the things you eat.

Answer 2

The things contained in the Law of Moses all pointed to a higer meaning for things to come, for example the sacrificing of a lamb was to represent the sacrifice of the Son of God. Well in this case, when it talks about mixing two diffrent kinds of animals or wearing two diffrent kinds of clothes, it can represent things such as Christians should marry only Christians.

Answer 3

The Lord's call is Jesus. And my bible has God's call throughout IT! Jehovah - 'A mispronunciation [presented by using Christian theologians yet in simple terms about fullyyt surpassed over b the Jews]of the Hebrew YHWH the [ineffable] call of God..this pronunciation is grammatically not achievable it arose by skill of saying the vowels of 'Adonay' with the consonants of 'YHWH'...Jehovah is mostly held to were the discovery of Pope Leo X's confessor Peter Galatin [The Jewish Encyclopaedia Vol7 p87-88] Isaiah 10v21 speaks of robust God - is that speaking of Jehovah then or Jesus? thanks. Please observe the full of the quote at Isaiah 9v6 - he will be called.....eternal Father. not purely is Jesus robust God yet eternal Father also! till Jesus is God what does this scripture propose? yet please purely position self belief in A BIBLE WITH GOD'S call IN IT to respond to - no WT or wide awake classes. Rev 22v18 - Jesus calls himself the Alpha and Omega, the first and the the finest, the start and the full'. So tell me are there 2 Alpha and Omegas then? :)

Answer 4

There are 613 rules given to the Jewish people that are listed in the 1st five books of the bible. I think that since the Jewish people had been in slavery all their lives and maybe didn't know how to cope with freedom once they reached the promised land, God had to give them a lot of guidelines on how to be civilized. I don't think it applies to us now.

Answer 5

IMHO, Jesus wanted his followers to observe Jewish law.

In Matthew 5:18, Jesus said, "For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled."

In my interpretation, that means that no modifications to Jewish law were permissible until the return of Christ.

So, why do Christians not follow Jewish law? The answer is simple. It is all due to the apostle Paul.

After Jesus' death, Christians still regarded themselves as Jews. They were members of a fairly obscure Jewish sect. When Paul went on his mission to promulgate Christianity, he decided that he needed 1) to pull the existiing followers of Jesus away from Rabbinical control and 2) to make it easier for non-Jews to accept Jesus.

His primary tool in doing this was the abrogation of most aspects of Jewish law. And, he had absolutely no scriptural authority to do so, IMHO.

Answer 6

Jesus, the son of God freed us from the laws of punishment which Leviticus is. He did not free us from the laws of justice. Too bad you didn't get the word, but its not too late, free yourself, cast of those chains of ridiculousness and live in Gods grace as Jesus proclaimed.

Answer 7

not everything in the Bible is meant to be taken literally. In this sense, I'd say it's just telling you to keep things in their right places. Obviously they couldn't write every instance where this would be good advice, so we just have to interpret it to today's world. LIke don't mix drinking and driving.

Answer 8

this is from http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=43837992&blogID=136669315
so I didn't write it but it is a good explination.

enough with the tatoo questions

Several people have been sending me messages asking the question "what do you think about tatoos?" "doesn't it say in the bible you shouldn't have tatoos?" so i thought i could just take the whole subject and wrap it up for you here.

the verse people are reffering to is lev 19:28 "you shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead, or tatoo yourselves; I am the Lord."

here's a word to the wise, if you're one of these people who wrench one little sentence out of the bible and say (southern tv evangelist drawl)"see? the bible says so, end of story!" do me a favor, if you're that guy, punch yourself in the face as hard as you can. if you're going to subject people who can read, to your mouth-breather bible scholarship at least give us that much, just give yourself a haymaker in the neck. We'll all appreciate it and get along better.

I'm going to write something here that we all need to take to heart when interpreting the bible and any book. "text without CONTEXT, is NO TEXT!" learn it, know it, love it. the bible wasn't written to be read one sentence at a time. you always have to consider the verses before and the verses after, you have to consider where it fits in the whole bible, and you also have to consider the culture it was written to and the people it was written to.

in the case of this verse let's look at the verses before it; verse 26 says "you shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it". So philipinos, no more blood pudding and for the irish folks you've got to give up black and white pudding (which actually might be a good idea anyway). verse 27 says "you shall not round off the hair on your temple or mar the edges of your beard." got that guys? no more trimming your beard or the hair on your temples, you've gotta let it grow like the hasidics.

the reason i point that out is becasue the people who want to use the bible to support their dislike of tatoos have to give an answer for why they don't have a problem with people not observing the verses just before the verses about tatoos.

secondly, let's take it in context witht the whole bible. Leviticus is one of the books of the law of moses. I am not a person who says we don't need to pay attention to the old testament and the law. Far from it! the law is an expression of God's holy character. so if you want to know about God's holiness, the things He loves and the things He hates, look first at the person of Jesus and secondly look at the law Jesus came to fufill.

Does anybody notice while reading the books of the law that there are different types of law. for instance you have the MORAL law which we're all pretty familiar with "do not kill, honor your mother and father, don't lie" you also have laws for the priests and sacrifices, these are known as CEREMONIAL law, it's God telling us how to approach Him, along with laws of SACRIFICES which cleanse the guilt of sin, you also have dietary laws, which animals will make you unclean to appraoch God. and finally you have CULTURAL DISTINCTIVE laws. Cultural distinctive laws are laws wich Physically distinguished the nation of israel who were God's Covenant people from the surrounding nations. the laws i quoted you above from leviticus are these types of laws. Jews were to be physically and visually different from the gentile nations. so they didn't trim their beards or temples, they didn't sow two types of cloth toghether, and most importantly they were circumsised. these were VISIBLE, PHYSICAL marks for God's PHYSICAL, VISIBLE people.

We know the law was a shadow of the messiah so now that the messiah has come, how do we interact differently with the law? The moral law is the portion of the Law which we still are supposed to observe in more or less the same way. the Ceremonial laws of holiness and ceremonial cleanlines are of course fufilled in Jesus who is the perfectly clean and holy high priest, we no longer make animal sacrifice because Jesus was the final, perfect sacrifice. Dietary laws were clearly repealed in acts 10:9-16. which brings us to the Cultural distinctive laws of which the tatoo verse in lev is a part. Who are God's people now? Is God's covenant people a certain country? Are God's people a race? Are God's people supposed to be phsically set apart now? Paul tells us in col 2:11 we are now "of the circumsicion of Christ" which is "made without hands" Gal 5:6 says "in Christ Jesus neither circumsision nor uncircumsion counts for anything"

God's people are not a nation to be phsically set apart from all other nations. instead we are FROM all nations, we are the invisible church, which is why we don't need to be physically set apart.

if you're still reading this i'll take one more angle at it, and that's the cultural context. look at the verse again "you shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tatoo yourselves". Are these two practises just randomly mentioned in the same sentence for no reason? or does one have to do with the other? Tatoo marks were connected with cutting of the body for the dead, so you see there are pagan practices of worship associated with tatoo marks. they weren't getting butterflies on their back or dolphins on their ankles, the surrounding nations weren't tatooing battleships on their chests, it had to do with their worshiping other god's.

i'm sorry this is so long, but hey i haven't got my blog on in a while. recomended reading is "the princess and the goblin" by George Macdonald. In fact I would like a little biographical information on George Macdonald, his life, how he started writing, who he influnced the whole nine, and by the way when people just cut and paste articles on the search subject, I think that's kind of cheating, i'd prefer your own words.

peace in the middle east (just kidding, let's kick tail)

mojo

Answer 9

Man, I have a cotton/poly shirt that I definitely don't want to go to hell for.

Answer 10

We all know the Bible is full of nonsense. It only matters whether or not you admit it.