Lev. 11:10

[Deja Q]

Poll question: Lev. 11:10

This Bible passage states that eating shellfish is not as much an abomination as being a homosexual.

Now, I am a homosexual (and a real flaming fruit at that!) who eats shellfish.

Does this make me an even worse sinner?

[Heyo]

1. I am not an expert on the Bible...

But I know that is it a compilation of many writings, by many different individuals....

Many of the books are describing one persons view, and are not necessarily meant to be what the Bible teaches....

I don't know about this passage... but I would be really surprised if, taken as a whole as understood, the Bible really did mean that eating shellfish is less of a sin than being a homosexual as quoted in the passage above..

I have no idea who wrote the book of Leviticus.. so if somebody knows different, I'm all ears....

It's all about *context*.. even in the Bible...

You'll have to forgive my bit of speculation here... but I am going on talking a lot about this type of thing with people who know the Bible a whole lot better than me...

Heyo

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

2. Also according to the Bible

fathers can sell their daughters into slavery and adultery is punishable by stoning to death.

Thus I don't pay it much heed. And I'm a Christian!

I LOVE shellfish, but I'm straight. If you aren't Jewish you can pretty much look at the Old Testament as a bunch of interesting though freaky stories.

[Heyo]

3. Again....

See my post above.....

I think it might apply to this as well...

.. and also apply to the e-mail (or whataver it was.. bit of text passed around sometimes on the net... a knock at Christianity) that had about 10 numbered items of some pretty rediculous archaic(sp?) stuff quoted from the Bible...(I think the above post is one of those items actually)

It's all context... the Bible describes many things... including stories of people who have taken the message the wrong way...

Heyo

[zeemike]

4. Just a little perspective here

Leviticus is a book of the laws of the nation of Israel created after Moses received the Ten Commandments.
The Ten Commandments were the same thing as our Constitution in that they were used as the bases for the law that Moses imposed on the rebellious and difficult twelve tribes that he lead out of Egypt.
So what you are reading is the law books of a nation that is over 3 thousand years old. Why be surprised that the law is so strange to us today? Could any of us today understand how people lived at the time of the exodus?
We only have to look back to 18th century law to see how silly some of it was and then imagine it 3000 years removed to get the point.