Ohh, sorry. My original comment was being sarcastic, in that you had to follow all the laws of the old testament, except, it seems, EATING shellfish or WEARING two fabrics at once, since most evangelicals seem to feel those arent important anymore.
I figured that with a smart crowd like this, I didn't have to spell out every letter of the refference. Ohh, and backing up to your first response to me, I was just listing off required beliefs, not behaviours. On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence <sa...@pobox.com> wrote: > > This is getting a little surreal, methinks. You're the one who excepted > shellfish, not me -- but, as it happens, you didn't say what they were > excepted from. Being left to guess what the exception referred to, I > merely observed that shellfish -- unlike people -- were never required > to follow the Laws. If an oyster chooses not to keep kosher nobody much > cares. > > If you can see anywhere in the Bible where it says, say, a shrimp will > be stoned if it picks up sticks on a Saturday, please point it out. > (Surely it will be stoned if it chooses to live in the waters of a bong, > but that's something else again...) > > In any case Deuteronomy is pseudepigraphic. It was written hundreds of > years after the other books of the Pentateuch, by priests fleeing from > the fall of the Northern Kingdom. So it doesn't count. > >
