If you had actually read the context in which God told Moses this: God is telling Moses to tell the Israelites this because he wants them to lead a life worthy of being God's people....the people God drove out of the land were not worthy of this life, and God is WARNING the Israelites from becoming like those people....understand?
That's Old Testament. For Christians, the Old Testament rules were fulfilled by Jesus's death on the cross and they are no longer the rules that Christians must live by. But, you seem to have forgotten that I'm not a Christian. I am definitely not British. I'm a McAmerican - an American of Irish descent. Huh? Peanut butter upon you too.
help me out here, so if Jesus fulfilled the old testament...why was the new one formed? so you are saying you don't live by his testament? srry if I missunderstood
The New Testament documents the new covenant between God and all people. This covenant replaces the old covenant between God and the Jews which was documented in the Old Testament. Some people here at DP are having trouble getting their heads around a bit of the terminology. The key point is that that Jesus, by willfully giving his life on the cross, made it possible for anyone to achieve salvation simply by believing in Jesus. This made the old system where good works were required obsolete, by replacing it with a system where all people were good to each other out of love for one another. That's the core of Christian doctrine. That's what it means to be a Christian -- that you believe that Jesus (the son of God) gave his life on the cross for your sins. If Jesus gave his life for your sins, and all you have to do is believe in him, then all of the good works and rules in the Old Testament become unimportant. Many of them are still good ideas, but now you have the right and the responsibility to determine for yourself what is good and what is bad -- always by following Jesus general guideline to love one another. P.S. I may have to take some time off from the P&R threads. If I hang out here much longer, I run a risk of becoming a Christian!
If you go and copy and paste an anti-christian site by some imam who adds in his own words and tries to change the meaning of a verse you will continue to be a misinformed, mind controled muslim. Please post the site you got that from so I can laugh at all of the other mis-interpreted verses. (Nevermind, I already found it, this guy is such the fool, he writes responses like he proves things and really never does. I have seen his garbage before.) Hey, but if you really wanted to know what it says read the whole story, but I am sure they teach you not to read the Bible, it is probably a head losing idea....
that was my point though....the specific verse was God telling the Israelites NOT to do what the previous people had been doing...God had already run them out of Town. So, to keep the Israelites a Holy People, he listed all the things the other folk had done, and then told the Israelites not to do it, or else. Does that make sense?
Song of Solomon is a great book about love which includes sex between a husband and wife. Funny that people complain that Christians are against sex, etc.. Yet, when you point out that a whole book in the bible is mostly about lovers in a sexual way that now it is offensive? God made man and women and He made sex as a pleasurable thing. Too bad the muslim men that complain about this think that sex in this form with descriptions are only good when raping the neighbors daughter before the have her killed.........