What should we be using as a personal standard?
Do Christians need to follow the all of guide lines set for us in the Bible?
Do you feel like Christians pick and choose which rules to follow?
Do you think Christians pick and choose which standards they want to hold others too?
Consider this Facebook post I found online, and some of the replies that followed:
Poster:When will real Christians stand up for whats right? When will we quit giving in to everything to make everyone happy when will we stop compromising? When will we take a stand on abortion and homosexuality? People say we must be tolerant well the bible says to be intolerant. When will we quit accepting these things? Homosexuality is an abomination, abortion is wrong, when will we take a stand? The bible says be drunk not in wine but in the holy spirit so why are so many christians getting drunk on the weekends? What about sex before marriage people if you cant handle the temptation dont put your self in a situation that It could happen. So my question is Who will take a stand on these issues and more if there is one I left out that you feel strongly about please add it.Reply1:I have a nice 4 1/2 pound rock sitting right here on my desk I would like to mail to you. Found it in a creek bed last summer while teaching young boys at summer camp about the awesome love that God has for each one of us. It is red sandstone and I have cleaned it up really nice. I figure you can use this to stone me to death for being an abomination, because that is what the Bible says should happen to me. But it is a real pretty stone, I even carved into it "John 8:7".Would you like me to send it to you?Reply2:He who is without sin shall cast the first stone!!!!! I agree ****. I think that people should get the planks out of thier eyes!!! We should all get the planks out of our eyes. We all make mistakes, Jesus allows us to, so let us all make mistakes ****, it's only part of human nature! We all fall short of the glory of God.
Reply3:Here are a list of other sins from LeviticusDon't let cattle graze with other kinds of Cattle (Leviticus 19:19)Don't have a variety of crops on the same field. (Leviticus 19:19)Don't wear clothes made of more than one fabric (Leviticus 19:19)Don't cut your hair nor shave. (Leviticus 19:27)Any person who curseth his mother or father, must be killed. (Leviticus 20:9)If a man cheats on his wife, or vise versa, both the man and the woman must die. (Leviticus 20:10).
If a man sleeps with his wife and her mother they are all to be burnt to death. (Leviticus 20:14)
If a man or woman has sex with an animal, both human and animal must be killed. (Leviticus 20:15-16). I guess you should kill the animal since they were willing participants. Are they crazy?
If a man has sex with a woman on her period, they are both to be "cut off from their people" (Leviticus 20:18)So, do Christians tend to pick and choose which old testament rules we want to follow? What do you think?
