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Something from another thread made me remember that the Old Testament book Leviticus prohibits a LOT of stuff.  I googled "Things prohibited in Leviticus" and this was one of the first neatly-ordered lists, so I copied it. If it's not entirely accurate mea culpa and all that.

 

So, here's one guy's understanding of the things prohibited in Leviticus.  How many of them have you violated?  I'm not going to expose exactly which ones of these I've violated, but I'll tell you I'm in trouble for 34 of these things.

 

1.       Burning any yeast or honey in offerings to God
2.       Failing to include salt in offerings to God
3.       Eating fat
4.       Eating blood
5.       Failing to testify against any wrongdoing you’ve witnessed
6.       Failing to testify against any wrongdoing you’ve been told about
7.       Touching an unclean animal
8.       Carelessly making an oath
9.       Deceiving a neighbor about something trusted to them
10.   Finding lost property and lying about it
11.   Bringing unauthorized fire before God
12.   Letting your hair become unkempt
13.   Tearing your clothes
14.   Drinking alcohol in holy places  
15.   Eating an animal which doesn’t both chew cud and has a divided hoof  
16.   Touching the carcass of any of the above  
17.   Eating – or touching the carcass of – any seafood without fins or scales
18.   Eating – or touching the carcass of - eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, the red kite, any kind of black kite, any kind of raven, the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl, the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey, the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.
19.   Eating – or touching the carcass of – flying insects with four legs, unless those legs are jointed
20.   Eating any animal which walks on all four and has paws  
21.   Eating – or touching the carcass of – the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard, the gecko, the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink and the chameleon
22.   Eating – or touching the carcass of – any creature which crawls on many legs, or its belly
23.   Going to church within 33 days after giving birth to a boy
24.   Going to church within 66 days after giving birth to a girl
25.   Having sex with your mother
26.   Having sex with your father’s wife
27.   Having sex with your sister
28.   Having sex with your granddaughter
29.   Having sex with your half-sister
30.   Having sex with your biological aunt
31.   Having sex with your uncle’s wife
32.   Having sex with your daughter-in-law
33.   Having sex with your sister-in-law
34.   Having sex with a woman and also having sex with her daughter or granddaughter  
35.   Marrying your wife’s sister while your wife still lives
36.   Having sex with a woman during her period
37.   Having sex with your neighbour’s wife
38.   Giving your children to be sacrificed to Molek
39.   Having sex with a man “as one does with a woman”
40.   Having sex with an animal
41.   Making idols or “metal gods”
42.   Reaping to the very edges of a field
43.   Picking up grapes that have fallen in your  vineyard
44.   Stealing
45.   Lying
46.   Swearing falsely on God’s name
47.   Defrauding your neighbour
48.   Holding back the wages of an employee overnight  
49.   Cursing the deaf or abusing the blind
50.   Perverting justice, showing partiality to either the poor or the rich
51.   Spreading slander
52.   Doing anything to endanger a neighbour’s life
53.   Seeking revenge or bearing a grudge
54.   Mixing fabrics in clothing
55.   Cross-breeding animals
56.   Planting different seeds in the same field
57.   Sleeping with another man’s slave
58.   Eating fruit from a tree within four years of planting it
59.   Practicing divination or seeking omens  
60.   Trimming your beard
61.   Cutting your hair at the sides
62.   Getting tattoos
63.   Making your daughter prostitute herself
64.   Turning to mediums or spiritualists
65.   Not standing in the presence of the elderly
66.   Mistreating foreigners – “the foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born”  
67.   Using dishonest weights and scales
68.   Cursing your father or mother  
69.   Marrying a prostitute, divorcee or widow if you are a priest
70.   Entering a place where there’s a dead body as a priest
71.   Slaughtering a cow/sheep and its young on the same day
72.   Working on the Sabbath
73.   Blasphemy  
74.   Inflicting an injury; killing someone else’s animal; killing a person must be punished in kind
75.   Selling land permanently
76.   Selling an Israelite as a slave  

 

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18 minutes ago, knapplc said:

Something from another thread made me remember that the Old Testament book Leviticus prohibits a LOT of stuff.  I googled "Things prohibited in Leviticus" and this was one of the first neatly-ordered lists, so I copied it. If it's not entirely accurate mea culpa and all that.

 

So, here's one guy's understanding of the things prohibited in Leviticus.  How many of them have you violated?  I'm not going to expose exactly which ones of these I've violated, but I'll tell you I'm in trouble for 34 of these things.

 

1.       Burning any yeast or honey in offerings to God
2.       Failing to include salt in offerings to God
3.       Eating fat
4.       Eating blood
5.       Failing to testify against any wrongdoing you’ve witnessed
6.       Failing to testify against any wrongdoing you’ve been told about
7.       Touching an unclean animal
8.       Carelessly making an oath
9.       Deceiving a neighbor about something trusted to them
10.   Finding lost property and lying about it
11.   Bringing unauthorized fire before God
12.   Letting your hair become unkempt
13.   Tearing your clothes
14.   Drinking alcohol in holy places  
15.   Eating an animal which doesn’t both chew cud and has a divided hoof  
16.   Touching the carcass of any of the above  
17.   Eating – or touching the carcass of – any seafood without fins or scales
18.   Eating – or touching the carcass of - eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, the red kite, any kind of black kite, any kind of raven, the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl, the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey, the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.
19.   Eating – or touching the carcass of – flying insects with four legs, unless those legs are jointed
20.   Eating any animal which walks on all four and has paws  
21.   Eating – or touching the carcass of – the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard, the gecko, the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink and the chameleon
22.   Eating – or touching the carcass of – any creature which crawls on many legs, or its belly
23.   Going to church within 33 days after giving birth to a boy
24.   Going to church within 66 days after giving birth to a girl
25.   Having sex with your mother
26.   Having sex with your father’s wife
27.   Having sex with your sister
28.   Having sex with your granddaughter
29.   Having sex with your half-sister
30.   Having sex with your biological aunt
31.   Having sex with your uncle’s wife
32.   Having sex with your daughter-in-law
33.   Having sex with your sister-in-law
34.   Having sex with a woman and also having sex with her daughter or granddaughter  
35.   Marrying your wife’s sister while your wife still lives
36.   Having sex with a woman during her period
37.   Having sex with your neighbour’s wife
38.   Giving your children to be sacrificed to Molek
39.   Having sex with a man “as one does with a woman”
40.   Having sex with an animal
41.   Making idols or “metal gods”
42.   Reaping to the very edges of a field
43.   Picking up grapes that have fallen in your  vineyard
44.   Stealing
45.   Lying
46.   Swearing falsely on God’s name
47.   Defrauding your neighbour
48.   Holding back the wages of an employee overnight  
49.   Cursing the deaf or abusing the blind
50.   Perverting justice, showing partiality to either the poor or the rich
51.   Spreading slander
52.   Doing anything to endanger a neighbour’s life
53.   Seeking revenge or bearing a grudge
54.   Mixing fabrics in clothing
55.   Cross-breeding animals
56.   Planting different seeds in the same field
57.   Sleeping with another man’s slave
58.   Eating fruit from a tree within four years of planting it
59.   Practicing divination or seeking omens  
60.   Trimming your beard
61.   Cutting your hair at the sides
62.   Getting tattoos
63.   Making your daughter prostitute herself
64.   Turning to mediums or spiritualists
65.   Not standing in the presence of the elderly
66.   Mistreating foreigners – “the foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born”  
67.   Using dishonest weights and scales
68.   Cursing your father or mother  
69.   Marrying a prostitute, divorcee or widow if you are a priest
70.   Entering a place where there’s a dead body as a priest
71.   Slaughtering a cow/sheep and its young on the same day
72.   Working on the Sabbath
73.   Blasphemy  
74.   Inflicting an injury; killing someone else’s animal; killing a person must be punished in kind
75.   Selling land permanently
76.   Selling an Israelite as a slave  

 

Wow I had forgotten how “wrong” I am according to that book  :blink:

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Good on them all :thumbs......

all but this one:

56.   Planting different seeds in the same field  :facepalm:    Nuts, I thought I could work my way into heaven but that one tripped me up.  :bang

 

In deed and spirit - I've probably violated most of them throughout life.

 

Fortunately we have this - also found in the OT  Psalm 103:11-14:

 

For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him;
as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him;
for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust.
 

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 Everything in the Bible is written for us, but not everything in the Bible is written to us. Meaning we can read it now to help us understand how God dealt with people of that era.  Also, this was said to a specific group of people. Some of the laws were for cleanliness and sanitary reasons before they knew about viruses and bacteria.  Others were designed to set the people on a path to morality.  There is a lot there we can't understand in the 21st century.

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1 hour ago, TonyStalloni said:

 Everything in the Bible is written for us, but not everything in the Bible is written to us. Meaning we can read it now to help us understand how God dealt with people of that era.  Also, this was said to a specific group of people. Some of the laws were for cleanliness and sanitary reasons before they knew about viruses and bacteria.  Others were designed to set the people on a path to morality.  There is a lot there we can't understand in the 21st century.

 

You would think that a "god", who by christian dogma is: a) omnipotent, and b) eternal that he'd be able to write (or "divinely inspire") a book that would stand up to modern life.  The idea is that "god" is everywhere, knows all, and has a plan--for everyone.  So...if that is true, why is the bible (which is supposedly his holy word) so ridiculously out of touch?  Furthermore, you know what is perfectly fine according to "god?"  Raping of women, murder/mass murder/genocide, slavery ("god" even gives prices to be paid for slaves according to gender and age (how conveniently thoughtful).  But holy moly, you eat pork or are a man who kisses another man--right to hell!  Basically nothing about religion stands up to skeptical scrutiny.   

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