I was just wondering, someone said something the other day that God considers it a sin to have intercourse with your wife when she is menstruating, because she is considered unclean and her husband will also be considered unclean for fourteen days? Apparently this is said in the Bible and I was just wondering if it's really said in the Bible and what is so unclean about menstration? Isn't it CLEANING you anyway?
2006-12-26 12:01:44 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This is an Old Testament commandment about Jewish men doing certain things and not doing others and therefore staying ritually clean.
In the parable of the good Samaritan, the people who passed by and did nothing did so to stay ritually clean. If they would have stopped to help a bloody and possible dying man then they would not be allowed to enter the Temple until they had ritually cleansed themselves.
For Christians, Jesus fulfilled the Law of Moses.
Christians are not held to the ceremonial parts of the Mosaic Law concerning of dietary purity and temple worship.
Christians are held to the moral law of God, some of which is expressed in the Ten Commandments.
However Jesus took the Ten Commandments to the next step summarizing them into the two Great Commandments:
+ You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.
+ You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
And teaching things like
+ Everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
+ Everyone is our neighbor including our enemies.
Therefore we have to go much farther than the original recipients of the Ten Commandments ever dreamed.
With love in Christ.
2006-12-26 17:42:09 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It should be understood that eating pork or even just touching it was considered unclean at one time. Some people still take these things literally. Then, when Peter received a vision about eating "ritually unclean" animals and God telling Peter NOT to consider it unclean.
You are correct is saying that the reality is menstration is a cleansing process. So, why were things such as these put in the Old Testament and apparently changed in the New? If you know scripture symbols of uncleanliness were meant to make an anology between the physical realm and the spiritual realm. Jesus Christ clarified the issues of controversey. When he went into the house of a sinner (Matthew) it caused a scandal because it is considered they would corrupt you.
People who cannot understand the apparent "contradictions" do not look into the deeper meaning of what is being set as an example. This is a very good question and I hope my explaination helps.
2006-12-26 12:17:30 · answer #2 · answered by Search4truth 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if that's written in the bible or not, but isn't that gross? Why would you want blood everywhere?
That doesn't make sense to me either. Menstruating is a part of nature and shouldn't be considered unclean.
I just say wait til she's finished, she'll probably be better anyway, she won't be as tired.
2006-12-26 12:07:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Leviticus 15, 19-30 says (in very precise details) that a woman menstruating is impure for the period of her menstruation, and so is everything she touches.
Like many of the recommendations of Leviticus, these are not taken very seriously by Christians today and is considered outdated.
2006-12-26 12:05:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you are referring to Leviticus 15 starting in verse 19.
Read what you want into it, but there were a lot of rules the Hebrews followed regarding being "clean". Many of them refer to being ceremonially clean. What Nana said is right, though. Blood can carry a lot of disease with it. As a general rule, you shouldnt subject yourself to other peoples bodily fluids.
The Hebrews are prohibited from eating a whole laundry list of things. But in the New Testament, there is evidence that many of the ceremonial observances relating to the Law of Moses were fulfilled and no longer needed to be adhered to.(Acts 10: starting in verse 9.)
2006-12-26 12:12:16 · answer #5 · answered by Uncle Remus 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is in the Bible as are numerous other taboos for men and women about emissions. The blood concerns were especially important because of a passionate belief that life was in the blood. It was sacred unto God.
For this same reason, animals could not be eaten w/ their blood still in them.
Science has shown us a great deal that was unknown 3k years ago.
2006-12-26 12:04:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is a law of the old covenant God made with the Israelites. Catholics are in the new covenant. Below is a link to an explanation from a Jewish site:
2006-12-26 12:15:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is in the bible. In Leviticus.Well blood that is exposed to outside the human body breeds bacteria. The blood shed by mentruation is still considered by many as bacterial waste. It all depends what you believe and what you know
2006-12-26 12:10:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes it is in the bible, ...but no this decree given to the jews is not a decree that we have to fallow now, the only everlasting decrees that we must keep that jesus our lord also kept and that were never abolished are the ten commandments sabbath, passover all the feast are still to be kept by us, not the way the jews kept them but by the way jesus kept them and above all love the lord with all your heart, mind, and soul and by keeping the commands we love our lord with all our strenght and mind and soul....please if want to know more let me know..
2006-12-26 12:11:10 · answer #9 · answered by liviaeve 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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Thanks, RR
2006-12-26 12:06:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋