The Like/Hate Thread

[Orion]

The food and cleanliness laws for example. If those were practiced today I think people would be healthier, and that those same risky foods and practies are still hamstringing us. Many of the "unclean" foods are high risk foods when you look at health. Pork , shellfish, fat in general, blood ect. Some of these laws the U.S. as a nation still practices; such as bleeding animals before processing them into food.

No doubt. But we have infinitely better medical treatments than back then, and it was essential that God's people didn't die from basic (at least today) hygiene problems.

Also, most of the cleanliness laws are probably practiced just on principle. Like not rolling around in shit, quarantine, and not touching dead things. lol

You'd be surprised how often these laws weren't "practiced just on principle" until around the 18th Century from the secular world. No one knew about germs and diseases, it was all based on sin-related sickness; if you'd been struck down with a health condition, it was your fault because you dishonoured a god or an evil spirit had possessed you, not because you failed to realise the connection between hygiene and food preparation.

The Jews had a hygiene system well above and beyond any other civilisation at the time, and no other civilisation did until Western medicine caught up only a few centuries ago. There was even a Roman medical treatment that involved smearing feces into wounds to aid healing. It's only common sense to us because we actually know that is a bad idea.

I would also think that if part of the law is in effect then the whole law would be in effect. I would think that if some of the laws are in effect, because, sin still exists. According to the Bible's definition; if there is no law there is no sin, since, sin is the transgression of the law.

I was under the impression we were under grace, not the law? Fulfilling law isn't the requirement. I know what you're getting at though, but then that depends on what you define the 'law' to be. There were the early Jewish laws of cleanliness and eating proper food and then there are the laws of doing unto others as you would have done to you.

Anywho, I hope you don't mind discussion on this topic. I am not much one for preaching and stuff. I just like this topic.

I love talking about this stuff in a place where people can actually handle themselves maturely, so yeah. Don't mind at all.