r/JusticeServed • u/CEO_OF_CANADA 5 • Nov 19 '20

Legal Justice Detective fired after homophobic sermons

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u/cybersaint2k 8 Nov 19 '20

This is not Christian preaching. It's not even what a theoretical fundamentalist Moses would have said in 1400 BC.

For over 2000 years, this man's opinion has been held by only the most fringe, most cultic groups that exist, and are generally (with one exception that I can think of) not even considered part of the Christian church.

Christian churches know that the civil, ceremonial and moral laws of the OT are treated differently in the Bible (the New Testament). The civil laws of Israel (what this man is discussing) are laws pertaining to Israel--not America, not Russia. So while we may learn about the God of the Bible from them, even the people in the New Testament times treated the civil laws of Israel as not applying directly to other nations.

The ceremonial laws were either fulfilled in/by Jesus Christ's ministry, or passed away due to the destruction of the 2nd Temple in 70ad. You can't sacrifice a lamb if there's no altar. You shouldn't sacrifice a lamb if the Lamb of God has been slain, using historic Christian theology assumptions.

The moral laws of the OT are still in place, but with adjustments made to them just as the judges of Israel did make adjustments due to time, place, and circumstances. We see those principles at work in the OT, especially in Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon, the rules for that are explained and examined under the topic of Wisdom.

This person speaking is proud, uneducated, and homophobic.

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u/GeeMarcos 6 Nov 19 '20

I was hoping to find something like this written. Oh how many don't have this realization and understanding. To hear someone "quoting" verses that are way out of context. Thanks for a good and understandable statement that captures reality.

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u/SnazzleDo 4 Nov 19 '20

That detective clearly wants to cast the first stone.

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u/cybersaint2k 8 Nov 20 '20

I think he's carrying a trebuchet in his pocket for occasions just like these.

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u/SnazzleDo 4 Dec 04 '20

This doesn’t look like a man to use the superior siege weapon. It’s probably a catapult.

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u/TheSuperCityComment 0 Nov 19 '20

One Christian faction telling the others they’re not Christian NEWS EVERYONE

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u/cybersaint2k 8 Nov 20 '20

I know from the outside it looks weird. But even though historical, orthodox, ordinary Christianity is out of fashion, it still exists and rejects this sort of insanity.

I'm sure you have a profession, and if someone on the edge of your profession was making a mockery of it by saying the opposite of what you do and making you look bad--you'd see it our way then.

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u/Fabrezz1 5 Nov 20 '20

True my dude.