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Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoChristians on old testament laws:
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prohibition on eating pork: god actually didn’t mean we should stop eating pork. It was an accident bro.
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prohibition on vaguely sexual acts without clear translation: this is the word of god, how dare these people exist
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
I’m not defending Christianity, but the actual defense of pork is that Jesus had made pork clean, in a vision to Peter where the analogy was that Jesus also made non Jewish people clean, since mixing with them was also forbidden. So less accident, more amendment.
They would also claim (from my experience in a cult anyway) that the old laws were necessary at the time they were given, but by the time Jesus came he could revise them as they were more ready.
If we look at it from a secular viewpoint, badly cooked pork probably caused a bunch of illness to was banned, and by the time Jesus supposedly existed people had learned to cook it more safely.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
If only they took jesus’ views on the wealthy as seriously as they take his revision to pork law.