knapplc Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 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 Link to comment
Guy Chamberlin Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 I was doing pretty well until "sleeping with another man's slave." Lighten up, Bible! Link to comment
Big Red 40 Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 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 Link to comment
TGHusker Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Good on them all ...... all but this one: 56. Planting different seeds in the same field Nuts, I thought I could work my way into heaven but that one tripped me up. 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. 1 Link to comment
BIG ERN Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Big difference between laws of the land and the commandments of God.... Link to comment
RedSavage Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 There's some messed up stuff on that list. Re: #72 - Never roll on shomer shabbos 1 Link to comment
Moiraine Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Can 2 sins cancel each other out? E.g. can you have sex with your daughter-in-law if she's on her period? Link to comment
The Dude Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 I haven't brush my hair since 1997. Hail Odin. Link to comment
Moiraine Posted May 5, 2018 Share Posted May 5, 2018 8 hours ago, knapplc said: 61. Cutting your hair at the sides Link to comment
TonyStalloni Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 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. 2 Link to comment
Making Chimichangas Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 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. Link to comment
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