kemmer

Seem to me he hasn’t quite gotten around to you yet. Keep trying. 😎🏳️‍🌈

kemmer

kemmer

Indeed? 😂

RandyBrian Loc: Texas

Not a problem. Educated people know the difference between a discussion and evangelizing. They also recognize when someone is trying desperately to justify bad behavior.

kemmer

Leviticus railed against “bad behavior” because he had no clue about immutable sexual orientation. And so that error continues to this day among the less scripturally sophisticated.

jwrevagent

Leviticus was not the name of a person. I believe the book was so named because it is the levitical law. Levites were the priests and preachers of the day. Levi was one of the sons of Jacob, and thus was a tribe of Israel.

kemmer

Yes, yes, we know Leviticus was written by a “staff”, but everyone refers to the book as though it were written by an angry man

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Scholarship attributes authorship of Leviticus to Moses, which is clear from the many instances where God communicated directly with him. 4:1, 6:1, 8:1, 11:1

Leviticus is the third book of Moses and part of the Torah or Pentateuch, the five books of Moses. It's Hebrew name is Wayyigra, meaning "and he called." It is also called by the Hebrew name Torath Kohanim, "Law of the Priests". The English title is derived from the Greek Leuitikon, referring to laws of the priests.

This book speaks chiefly to the sacrificial system and requirements of the Levitical priests. It commences after detailing the different required sacrifices, including the burnt offering, the meat offering, the fellowship offering, the sin offering and the trespass offering. In addition it contains various laws pertaining to health, hygiene, relationships and proper worship.

Spiritual significance:

This book is bursting with importance. A clear knowledge of Leviticus contributes greatly to an understanding of the Bible as a whole. Leviticus was written to God's people how to live, as well as to reveal redemption to all nations. It presents God's holiness through the sacrificial system and how sin's death penalty must be paid by blood. It's laws reveal to Israel and to us God's standard for character and conduct, and through the penalties for sin we see how inflexible is God. Through Israel's highly regulated spiritual and personal lives we get a further picture of God's holy character, which does not change - Malachi 3:6. Leviticus provides not only a body of civil law for Israel's theocracy, but also laws about health and hygiene, which benefits are being confirmed by medical science today, including detriments of eating fat and consuming swine and other unclean meat. Leviticus speaks about relationships, not holding a grudge and loving your neighbor as yourself. (See Jesus' great commandments). It also provides the most complete list of God's inspired days of worship. The seven annual Feast days reveal the plan of salvation and were observed not only in the Old Testament, but also in the New Testament by Jesus and his Disciples.

Deuteronomy is the fifth book of Moses and it is fundamentally a second giving of the Law, representing God's covenant with His people. Being similar to Leviticus, Deuteronomy's overarching emphasis is obedience to God, with blessings for obedience and curses for lawbreaking.

Deuteronomy and Psalms are the two OT books Jesus most favored and from which He often quoted.

RandyBrian Loc: Texas

Oh, of course. Now you are "scripturally sophisticated", huh? I'll keep that in mind.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

H**e to break the news to you, sweetie pie, but there is no such thing as an "Immutable sexual orientation" when referring to God's covenant with Moses.

You can speak only for yourself, and in your case, your sexual orientation is immutable. You wouldn't change it even if someone cut your dick off.

kemmer

Indeed? So there was no such thing as homosexuality till after Moses? That’s interesting. That’s like the JWs, who say there were no carnivores on Earth till aftter Noah’s flood.

Hahaha…. So other gay men CAN change their sexuality? 🙄

kemmer

Thank you. 👍🏼

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Didn't say that. You're assuming things you obviously know nothing about.

kemmer

uh-huh.