Believe me Foxy, we'd be the last persons to wanna stone ya...we're kinda expecting to get stoned ourselves sooner or later...unfortunately those torturous laws are still held highly by christians in certain places that still want to kill us. Fortunately society in America now accepts our ability to defend ourselves so if any JW wants to stone us it will be at their own peril.
Mistreating foreigners – “the foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born” (19:33-34) [No penalty given.]
Going to church within 33 days after giving birth to a boy (12:4) [Actually, she’s unclean a week, and then another 33 days. Then she has to offer up a sacrifice.]
Going to church within 66 days after giving birth to a girl (12:5) [Actually, she’s unclean a week, and then another 66 days. Then she has to offer up a sacrifice.]
Trimming your beard (19:27) [No penalty given.]
Cutting your hair at the sides (19:27) [No penalty given.]
Getting tattoos (19:28) [No penalty given.]
Selling land permanently (25:23) [No penalty given.]
Eating fat (3:17) [That one’s “a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.” All fat is to be saved for offerings to God. Normal penalty.]
Eating an animal which doesn’t both chew cud and has a divided hoof (cf: camel, rabbit, pig) (11:4-7) [“You will be unclean.]
Eating – or touching the carcass of – any seafood without fins or scales (11:10-12) [“You will be unclean.”]
if so, which ones?
a question that also occurs in the letter to Dr Laura Schlessinger, an old Internet text.
Enjoy your bacon-wrapped prawns!
Reports are that the author of Leviticus was stoned when it was written, much like John was when he wrote Revelation/Apocalypse.Believe me Foxy, we'd be the last persons to wanna stone ya...we're kinda expecting to get stoned ourselves sooner or later...
Reports are that the author of Leviticus was stoned when it was written, much like John was when he wrote Revelation/Apocalypse.
Actually the evidence points to Moses as being the writer...Reports are that the author of Leviticus was stoned when it was written, much like John was when he wrote Revelation/Apocalypse.
BADDABING!
My post didn’t contradict that. Of course I wonder if Moses had imbibed a bit before he came upon the burning bush.Actually the evidence points to Moses as being the writer...
Stoning is not how Moses died...Deuteronomy....My post didn’t contradict that. Of course I wonder if Moses had imbibed a bit before he came upon the burning bush.
I thought as a kid that God overreacted to Moses. Jeeze, he believed, did what he was told for more than 40 years, put himself at risk in so doing, and if I remember correctly the flaw that denied him the Holy Land was that he felt that he needed to prod the rock a bit so it would produce water. Lighten up, God.Stoning is not how Moses died...Deuteronomy....
"4 Jehovah then said to him: “This is the land about which I have sworn to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your offspring* I will give it.’+ I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you will not cross over there.”+
5 After that Moses the servant of Jehovah died there in the land of Moʹab just as Jehovah had said.+ 6 He buried him in the valley in the land of Moʹab, opposite Beth-peʹor, and nobody knows where his grave is down to this day.+"
The rules in Leviticus are irrelevant today, except as historical & theological reference.
Why? Two reasons:
1] The coming of Christ fulfilled the Davidic Covenant, forming a new Covenant superseding the Abrahamic & Mosaic Covenants.
2] The new Christological Covenant extends to all, not just the Jews.
So out with the old, in with the new! Bye bye! Enjoy your bacon-wrapped prawns!
I thought as a kid that God overreacted to Moses. Jeeze, he believed, did what he was told for more than 40 years, put himself at risk in so doing, and if I remember correctly the flaw that denied him the Holy Land was that he felt that he needed to prod the rock a bit so it would produce water. Lighten up, God.
Ok, how does that analogy affect the punishing of Moses, who didn’t know Christ from Adam.The prodding of the rock can be understood as crucifying Christ again….Christ being the rock that could talk….
Well, Moses cause of stumbling was a lack of faith...he chose to glorify himself instead of giving Jehovah God the credit for all life sustaining qualities...I thought as a kid that God overreacted to Moses. Jeeze, he believed, did what he was told for more than 40 years, put himself at risk in so doing, and if I remember correctly the flaw that denied him the Holy Land was that he felt that he needed to prod the rock a bit so it would produce water. Lighten up, God.
Still, in my view God was acting as petty as were the Pharisees whom Jesus criticized for their not-picking.Well, Moses cause of stumbling was a lack of faith...he chose to glorify himself instead of giving Jehovah God the credit for all life sustaining qualities...
“Because you did not show faith in me to sanctify me before the eyes of the sons of Israel, therefore you will not bring this congregation into the land that I shall certainly give them.” Numbers 20:12
Ok, how does that analogy affect the punishing of Moses, who didn’t know Christ from Adam.
Thats not even true. To follow Leviticus you would be required to do it. JW are not being stoned in western countries so you dont have to worry about it like we have had to. You guys really dont know what its like. It wasnt a mere kingdom hall crash then leave.Believe me Foxy, we'd be the last persons to wanna stone ya...we're kinda expecting to get stoned ourselves sooner or later...
Yeahhh no. The writers got some splainin to do. Its just how we are.If God tells one to do something He does not have to explain……
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