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lovethyenemy1994:

I’m not familiar with those! Can you find those verses for me?

Those may no longer be relevant, but the laws on homosexuality are. From the beginning, God intended man and woman to be together, the model for a godly marriage throughout the Bible is always husband and wife.

this is the short version of the rant that i’ve been working on:

Jehovah gave mankind His Law on Mount Sinai. It wasn’t “just for the Jews”, that’s a fabrication that was concocted by the Pharisees after the destruction of Jerusalem. You see, they lost the center of their worship, the Temple, and were exiled from the Holy City, so they had to restructure their faith. One of the ways they did so was becoming increasingly insular and exclusive. What’s truly telling about the spiritual disconnect of Jewish tradition and the very Torah they worship is that at least two times in the books of Moses (Exodus and Leviticus, to be precise), Jehovah explicitly stated that there is not one law for the Jew and another law for the ‘filthy goyim’, but one law for both you AND the stranger (that is, the non-Jew).

That being said, the Christian recognizes what Jeshua did for mankind: in that He lived according to the very Law He created without fault and without sin, and died according to the prophecies concerning Him, in fulfillment of the rituals ordained in that very Law. the Sabbath was never altered or abolished: even Jeshua Himself said that ‘neither letter nor mark shall pass from the Law until heaven and earth pass away.’ the rest of the Law, the moral code, is still recognized as part of God’s design for humanity (not just the Jews): more than that, it is exemplified in the summation of the Ten Commandments “Love the LORD thy God…” and “love thy neighbor as thyself”.

But here is the part that puts the “good news” into the Gospel. If you look at the Book of Leviticus, the penalty for breaking these laws is death. For the Christian, accepting that the blood of Jeshua covers your sin effectively waives the penalty of the Law: that is, Jeshua takes the death unto Himself and allows the sinner to be redeemed and live as though they had never sinned. Of course, for those who reject Jeshua’s mercy and continue to live in sin, the penalty is only postponed until the end, when the proud and those that do wickedly are burned as stuble on the Day of Judgment.