Friar Bijou wrote:
gbaji wrote:
A. Not every rule and regulation in the Bible, especially in the Old Testament, is a rule or regulation our modern society follows.
Yes, people
do pick and choose which parts are "important" (NO GEHYS!!!) and which aren't (NO ADULTERY!!).
People; am I
right?
Sure. We also don't drain people's blood with leeches today, but that used to be common medical practice. Societies change. Rules change. We keep the ones that make sense for society today, and abandon those that don't. Only those who try to argue that unless one follows every rule in the Bible, one must reject everything in the bible (and of course the far less common people who actually take up that strawman) seem to think differently.
The bible also says not to commit murder. So are you arguing that since we no longer follow the rules with regard to eating shellfish, or mixing fabrics, and whatnot, that we should automatically allow murder? Um... Of course not. There's nothing wrong with picking and choosing rules to follow that make sense and ignoring those that no longer do.
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gbaji wrote:
B. The Bible doesn't say that..
Yeah, it kinda does. Not our fault you slept through CCD.
No. It doesn't. In the OT, it tells
Jews not to marry non-Jews. But that's not so much about race, but religion and culture. The concern being that by marrying with people of different faiths and cultures, their own would be diluted and disappear. Remember that for them, the people and the religion were one and the same. Obviously, that is not true in the NT under Christianity (since the whole point is to spread the word to non-Jews). And, just as one might predict, the same prohibition exists warning against marrying non-Christians, for more or less the same reason (this time though, less about culture and more just about religion).
Nowhere does it say to marry or not marry based on the skin tone of the other person. That would be absurd under Christianity since those who were being converted came in all colors. I'm frankly not sure where you got this idea. It simply does not exist.
Edited, Oct 6th 2015 2:46pm by gbaji