Chik-Fil-A Gay Fallout

[Wonktonodi]

happydolphin said:

Wonktonodi said:

but does it cover them all? and is there some clear place that covers all the ones that are kept and those that aren't? or are they all over and some just assumed?

There are some obscure ones but in the grand scheme of things they really don't matter. I kind of answered prof about this though a second ago, take a quick look.

For example, female hygene is another trivial matter, since it deals with external matters, much like food. Christ put emphasis on the things of the heart (morality, sexual purity, honesty, generosity). Paul supports this idea by saying that sexual immorality is a sin against the body and our body was bought at a price. Eating unclean foods is not considered a sin against the body, but something that affects aspects that have little basis in morality. Luckily for christians, this also makes alot of sense.

Here's where the church reasoned this out as well, above and beyond Jesus' declaration of all foods clean, but they did forbid the eating of foods sacrificed to idols and sexual immorality. For foods sacrificed to idols, it's probs because idolatry is still against the will of God as it was never superceded. However, Paul even supercedes that with Christian logic (there is really no such thing as an idol, there is truly but one God in the end, 1 Corinthians 8). Anyways, without further ado the Council at Jerusalem in the book of acts. (to note, below, among other things, circumcision not necessary to be saved, no longer a requirement).

 

¹⁹ “It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. ²⁰ Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood. ²¹ For the law of Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”

 

A few things, considering how rape is often looked at in the bible, I find it's standards for sexual morality a bit lacking.  Unless the new testament also changed much of that.

If strangled animals and blood were still a problem why didn't' Christ sat it at the time?

Does the new testament say anywhere not to eat people? Obviously it would be wrong to murder them first. The old dietary laws had it covered by having what meat you can eat cover. But what happens when those laws are all tossed and Christ even is saying to "eat" and "drink" him?

I would ask what marriage laws changed from the old to the new testament, but I doubt they all did. Same with the laws on divorce and abortion, but all of that would just be to make the point that "Christians" today who are so vocal on some of those issues aren't actually pushing for what was actually written. They can denounce homosexuality while not pushing for other law from the bible they would rather not. It's about demonizing another community instead of bringing up their own.

That's why to me those "Christians" are making an immoral lifestyle choice by following "Christianity" While I believe there are free to do that.  I won't just sit idle by when they try to claim some moral high ground as they immorally persecute those who don't follow them. I won't just let them make their beliefs the laws of the land and I will not feel bad because some says those who are persecuting and being hateful are suffering the consequences of their actions.