Leviticus 20:10?

Question

states If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death.

How many of you Christians are still living by this one!

LOL!

so what verses do you live by and which ones dont you? Who decides which ones make sense and which ones dont?

Watch how the Christians come to the defense!

Answer 1

Christians like to pick and choose which parts of the Old Testament apply and which parts don't apply depending on whatever their real agenda happens to be.

Answer 2

Tzadiq is exactly right! All "christians" who claim the they do not have to live by the Torah are putting the Messiah to shame. (Hebrews 6:1-6; 1 John 2:1; Hebrew 10:26).

If Yashua died for your sins, why do you continue in them? (Romans 6:1-2 , 23)

What is sin? (1 John 3:4, Romans 7:7,13 ;1Corinthians 15:56 ).

Now, in reagards to the question above about Leviticus 20:10, the Law is still valid (1 Corinthians 6:18). Commiting adultery is a sin, every so called "christian" on this forum would agree with that.

What then, about the death penalty in Lev 20:10? That is a more difficult question. If the person is NOT a baptised and converted member of the Church of God, then, the death penalty applies. Although in our society, it is not something that could be or should be enforced (Wouldn't have many people left if it were,, would we?). For a follower of Yashua, the death penalty also applies, but one of two things could or should happen.

1.) The people involved repent, and the blood of Christ will cover that sin. (1John 1:7; 1John 2:1 and others) That is what grace is all about (Romans 6:15, and others)

2.) If the Church becomes aware of the adultery, and there is no repentance and it continues, the Church has the duty to suspend (disfellowship) those or that person from membership (1 Corinthians 5:1-5) in hope they will repent.

As for the asker of this question, I feel that your attitude way of asking validates scripture: 2 Peter 3:3 ¶ Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 5 For this they willingly are ignorant.......

Answer 3

The Law was fulfilled by Jesus. We are all guilty of adultery. He trust God to live up to his promises through Jesus Christ, and we are saved. Whoever lives by the Law, must live up to all 613 commandments, not just verse 20. So we have a new Law ( you did say Christians) and the explaination of all this may be found in Romans 3. Try reading Romans 3.

Answer 4

We are not allowed to put people to death for adultery in this country.

Perhaps the divorce rate would drop to nothing if we were allowed to apply the rule.

We are also commanded to obey those in authority over us and those in authority over do not permit us to take the law
into our own hands.

All you christians claiming that we don't have to keep the torah really have no idea what your talking about. And to claim you keep the ten commandments? I know of one that very few of you keep. Do you realize the open disgrace you put Yahshua and Yahweh to when you do cherry pick which parts of the commandments you keep. Do you really think that you will be rewarded for your flagrant disobiedience? Unfortunatly your actions are what give the godless here their stones to throw at you. You openly shame the one you claim to love.

Answer 5

Jesus said that even to gaze upon a woman and lust after her mentally was committing adultery. Question did he say anything about anyone being put to death?

What about the woman caught in adultery, did Jesus say, yeah go ahead and stone her? No he did not. I guess somewhere along the way in seeking the truth in the Bible you either 1) must have gotten confused or 2) only intend to mock Christians.

Grow up, read the New Testament, and stop asking questions that require little thought.

Answer 6

What on earth does the ability or non ability of a group of believers have to do with the truth of its belief? Shall we hold mathematics to be invalid since 75% of grade school math teachers were not able to divide a complex fraction correctly? Furthermore, why do you think you can condemn a group for not holding a practice that you yourself hold not? Lastly, since when is the Old Testament law which was given specifically to the Jews binding on gentiles?

Answer 7

There are some parts of the Bible that are meant for carnal minds and Leviticus is not one of them. Start by reading in Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Acts; that is where people who are just starting out in His Word, will understand instruction. Then, after repentence, and baptism, maybe, God will reveal more of His Holy Book's meanings to you.

Answer 8

Sorry, this is an Old Testament Mosaic Law that doesn't apply in the literal sense today. Adultery is still a sin but the punishment is not death.

Answer 9

LOL...are we funny? We have suffered living in sin and by God's grace we have and can come out of it. Healed! Saved! Redeemed! We find peace, Want some? It's great coming out of the water, going down dirty as black soot and coming out whiter than snow and KNOWing the Love of the Lord...Everyone needs Him and to be forgiven.

Answer 10

Even in Jesus time, it was not common practice to enforce this law allowing the adulterers to be put to death.

If you recall, when the adulteress woman was brought to Jesus, he was asked to decide . . . stone her or spare her. Jesus wrote in the sand and made the historical statement, "Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone."

This group was trying to present Jesus with a dilemma to discredit him. If he said stone her, they would show that he did not have the compassion and forgiveness about which he spoke. If he said spare her, they could accuse him of trying to thwart the law. Instead, they all dropped their stones, dropped their heads, and walked away.

Afterward, he told the woman that he did not judge her, but to "go and sin no more."

Hope this helps in your Bible study. God Bless you.