Christians,what do you say about this statement?agree or not?

Question

"While there is no doubt that the Bible condemns homosexuality, it also stipulates that women should be socially isolated while menstruating, that parents should kill their children if they worship any god other than the Christian God and that those who work on the Sabbath should be executed. Few Christians today would agree with these ideas even though they are a part of God's words, and yet they continue to condemn homosexuality simply because it is condemned in the Bible. "
Miriam Rothschild

and WHY? please give your reasons for agreeing or disagreeing...

Answer 1

Sure, if homosexuality was only condemned in the Old Testament, that would be true.

However, it's condemned in the New Testament as well.

Answer 2

I agree that the Bible says things that could be taken as condemning for all of those things: Homosexuality, the non separation of 'unclean women' AND men (!), and working on the Sabbath, yet those things are of the Law. By stating those things as being true for the Christian is showing that there is not understanding to the effect that Christ brought to the table.

That brings me to the two other things that there is no such thing in the Bible: the killing of children who do not worship the Christian God, and the working on the Sabbath.

Jesus brought a way to have peace with God that was different, the things of the Law of Moses were 'types and shadows' of things to come. The rest that we are promised rest in Jesus, who made a new law, the Law of Faith.

I would recommend for Miriam Rothschild the reading of Romans 3 and 4 in order to understand these things.

Answer 3

People don't understand what kind of punishment sin can bring to a nation. This country is now calling right wrong and wrong right. A women then needed to be separated for fear of spreading disease and being dirty. I can imagine how embarrassing it must have been when a woman was menstruating. The first commandment was to have no other God but Jehovah. That he was a jealous God. As far as the sabbath was concerned, it was to allow people a day of rest. to prevent greedy business owners from over working people and allowed God's people a time to worship Him. Homosexuality is WRONG and you can't change that fact. The act itself should be dealt with and has no place anywhere. people can get help through the Bible and through other Christians on how to obtain victory over that desire.

Answer 4

Yes it's wrong. I don't agree with homosexuality, but I don't judge them in the sense that I would shun them or disallow them from the community or church even. Who am I to judge? That is their own problem and they know it's wrong.

Do you want us to kill our Kids? Stop working while we have periods? Are you gay, is that why you ask this Q?
Homosexuality is mentioned in the old and new. Could you specify where you read the latter besides Homosexuality?
I need to see you if you're asking the question in the right context and that it's not misunderstood.

"just me" mentions that Jesus came and full filled the old testament cause no man can abide by the rules of old. This is not true. He came to make a new covenant with us, and yes to full fill the old prophecies. Read further in the New testament that homosexuality is still against the will of God.
Man chose to see past this fact by saying Christ came for our sins "so now it's OK to go berserk".
Still not right.

Answer 5

First of all the Levitical laws are not the only place homosexuality is condemned. It is condemned in the entire story of Sodom and Gomorrah. It is also condemned again in the New Testament...which the isolation of menstruating women is not.

Homosexuality is one of the four sins that "cry to heaven for vengeance." Obviously, not something to be taken lightly. Homosexuality is a sexual perversion...it takes the very depth of our human/divine sexuality and perverts it. Marriage mirrors the relationship of Christ and his church. The act of sex, procreation...the bringing of life into the world are all sacred. They homosexual act is not. It is a perversion of something God made sacred.

Trying to make it into just another old religious law is futile. It's more then that. All sexual perversion is wrong...pornography, pedophilia, bestiality, prostitution, adultery, fornication...etc. They are all the misuse of something sacred...therefore they are an abomination.

Answer 6

Gosh, everyone's so hung up on how every single Christian feels about homosexuality. What's the deal? We LOVE homosexuals as we LOVE all mankind. Just like every other individual, they can follow the laws of the Old Testament if they choose (few of us do) or not. I really don't get the question here. What is it that you want? Our permission? You don't need it. Man has free will. Our approval? You don't need that either. Your relationship with God is your relationship with God. It's a very personal thing.

So I guess I disagree with your blanket statement...why? Because blanket statements are inevitably wrong and the people who tend to make them are inevitably foolish. (Aren't blanket statements fun?)

Answer 7

Disagree. Why? Because Miriam Rothschild has no understanding of the Word of God. You can only understand it when you are a born again, Spirit filled child of God, and she is clearly not and therefore lacks understanding that only God can give through the Holy Spirit.

Jesus came and with His coming, we were set free from a lot.

Answer 8

there goes another ignorant comment by someone who doesn't know the significance of the rules in the Old Testament and misquoting Christianity based on it.
if only people would learn to read with eyes and not just selectively.

if you are sincerely looking for an answer, the Old Testament shows how people since the very first day of creation, have failed repeatedly to live up to God's standards, and constantly sinning. Hence the need for us to be redeemed by Jesus, who came not to abolish the old laws, but to fulfill them.

Let's put it this way, in a "worldly" manner, if it suits you. While the Old Testament records the happenings of the world before Jesus came, the New Testament shows us what happened after Jesus came to redeem us, that we no longer had to conform ourselves to the rules which no man could ever abide to 100%.

Answer 9

That was part of the Mosaic Law that is not binding on Christians. Homosexuality is a different matter. It was not only prohibited under the Law, but it was also condemed in the Christian era. At 1Cor. 6:9, it says that men who lie with men will not inherit God's Kingdom.

Ro. 1:26, 27: "That is why God gave them up to disgraceful sexual appetites, for both their females changed the natural use of themselves into one contrary to nature; 27 and likewise even the males left the natural use of the female and became violently inflamed in their lust toward one another, males with males, working what is obscene and receiving in themselves the full recompense, which was due for their error."

So homosexuality is wrong for Christians.

Answer 10

There were laws in the Jewish law which you mentioned that were done away with since Christ, and there were laws that were not done away with but the punishment changed. Homosexuality is one thing that the Bible condemns in both the old and new testiment