Talk:Book of Leviticus
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[edit] I am not well-educated on this topic...
Can anyone shed some light on how these laws worked in practice? They seem impossible to follow, and I am incredulous these were well-enforced. Regular enforcement would at least explain why the Israelites were always in trouble... they would have been too busy executing people to notice they were under attack. --TheLateGatsby (talk) 21:24, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
[edit] April 2015
- Les'banism's okay; as well as men having sex with each other while standing up; a man having sex with a male who is not a man—i.e. pederasty; or a man having sex with a man in a manner that he wouldn't with a woman: e.g. oral and anal is okay with him as long as you don't do such with a woman
- Is "be cut off from among his people." really mean to be killed?
- I'm not sure 1 Corinthians 10:23–26 as exempts them/us from following these laws.
- This uncleanliness business doesn't seem to be a big deal. If I, say, shook hands with a menstruating woman, I'd be unclean, but hey, so what. The worse I have to do is change clothes and have a shower. I was going to do that anyway.
Talk to Civic Cat 19:40, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
- I don't think the Bible says the things you're saying it does. Wẽãšẽĩõĩď
Methinks it is a Weasel 20:16, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
- I suppose some xians would say the same, but I read the verse.
"Leviticus 20:13
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them."
No: nothing about girl-girl sex, gay-sex-standing-up, pederasty, differing practices between genders, or as I read it now, single men. Note it says "mankind," not a single man. I guess that makes the Bible okay with gay marriage.Talk to Civic Cat 20:23, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
- What English word it uses will depend on what translation you're reading. What it means (sexual activity between men) is pretty obvious. Ŵêâŝêîôîď
Methinks it is a Weasel 20:34, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
- It's the KJV—apparantly the only legitimate English bible, save for perhaps the earlier wp:Geneva Bible and wp:Tyndale Bible. Though it tends to be harder to take literally:
"13 Yf a man lye with the mankynde after the maner as with woma kynd, they haue both comitted an abhominacion and shall dye for it. Their bloude be apon their heed." wikisource:Bible (Tyndale)/Leviticus#Chapter 20. I guess it means they'll have to dye clothes.
Keep in mind, good Christian fundies must must take the Bible as literally as possible, or they might as well give up on Christianity and become mystics.Talk to Civic Cat 20:47, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
- OK. . . It's interesting how those "good Christian fundies" actually don't say the things you're suggestion ("e.g. oral and anal is okay with him as long as you don't do such with a woman"). Wẽãšẽĩõĩď
Methinks it is a Weasel 20:57, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
- OK. . . It's interesting how those "good Christian fundies" actually don't say the things you're suggestion ("e.g. oral and anal is okay with him as long as you don't do such with a woman"). Wẽãšẽĩõĩď
- It's the KJV—apparantly the only legitimate English bible, save for perhaps the earlier wp:Geneva Bible and wp:Tyndale Bible. Though it tends to be harder to take literally:
- What English word it uses will depend on what translation you're reading. What it means (sexual activity between men) is pretty obvious. Ŵêâŝêîôîď
- I suppose some xians would say the same, but I read the verse.
My conservative Christian friends and aquaintances don't know what to think of me, when I say those things, but I seem to have intrigued a few of the fundies. ;-)Talk to Civic Cat 21:02, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
- Is that a euphemism? Wěǎšěǐǒǐď
Methinks it is a Weasel 21:03, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
- Is what a euphemism?
Talk to Civic Cat 21:08, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
- "Intrigued" Wèàšèìòìď
Methinks it is a Weasel 21:11, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
- I'd give them that credit—at least one or two of them. They ain't dumb, just somewhat unedumacated.
Talk to Civic Cat 21:15, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
- I'd give them that credit—at least one or two of them. They ain't dumb, just somewhat unedumacated.
- "Intrigued" Wèàšèìòìď
- Is what a euphemism?