> For example, why are women not told to be quiet in church? We've uprooted > this teaching by fiat, it seems. Or please enlighten me why that teaching > is not normative while others are. Now, the stuff in the Torah about > killing bulls etc. -- I understand why that's not normative any more because > of what Jesus did on the cross. And I think an apostle's vision allowed us > to eat pork again, or something like that. So there are correctives in the > NT for certain OT norms. But there's a lot of norms that weren't > corrected. And we don't follow them. Why? That's what I'm asking. How > do we sift the teachings that are normative from those that are not?
I have wondered this same thing, actually. There are many things like cutting of hair, the women in church thing you referred to, and several others. As I'm not a Bible scholar I can't give any good reasons as to why not. I have several times said that maybe the Amish have it more right than anyone. I do have some questions, though. First, IS there evidence that the Israelites had NP sex or if that was a taboo? I realize that there were not as many contraceptive choices available. And how would this fit into the marriage consummation? Was the new family immediately thought to begin having children from the first night of marriage? If not, how would that one night of pleasure fit in? And what of laying with prostitutes which happened in the same passage? Not to answer a question with another question but are we to become fundamentalists? I do see how it can be argued that we are fitting the meaning to fit our own lives at times. And if you do that, where does it stop? That seems to be the main question, how do we determine which laws or commands we choose to take as literal? That's a main problem non- Christians seem to have with Christians from what I've been associated with. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Crosspointe Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/crosspointe-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
