The Mitzvot

[agedman]

I have heard a number of preachers waxing blustery concerning the 613 rules to live by for the Jews called the Mitzvot.

How many of you have actually taken the time to read through them?

In light of their being written for the Jews, what does it matter to a gentile preacher?

For those who would like to look at them here is a link: The 613 Mitzvot (Commandments)

I would like to read some comments you might have AFTER you have read through the rules. It doesn't take long, they are simple and easily understood.

How many might actually be beneficial for a believer to consider engaging in their life to be more conscious of Christ in their daily walk?

 

[Scarlett O.]

There are a few I will have to look up:

#76 says to say the Shema twice daily. I can't remember there being specific number.

#84 says the tzitzit was to be worn on four cornered garments. I thought there was the command to wear them on all garments, but I'll have to look that up. Maybe I'm wrong.

BUT!

I am for POSITIVE and for CERTAIN that #132 is not Biblically accurate. The claim is that a woman must marry her rapist, then in parenthesis (if she chooses). That's not what the Bible says in Deuteronomy.

There are three laws on sex outside of marriage and one law on rape.

• Deut. 22:22 = Adultery [involving at least one married person] - both the man and the woman are to be stoned.
• Deut. 22:23-24 = Consensual Fornication between a man and an engaged virgin woman - both parties, like adultery, are to be stoned
• Deut. 22:25-27 = Rape of an engaged woman - Only the rapist is to be stoned. The engaged woman is a victim says the Bible. Why is he to be stoned? These verses say that God considers rape on the same plane as murder.
• Deut. 22:28-29 = Consensual sex between a man and a virgin not-engaged -- These verses say if "THEY" are "FOUND". This is consent. Since she is not engaged, he must marry her and pay her father. And he cannot divorce her. It says NOTHING about her choosing to marry him.

God cannot lie. The Bible does not say stone the rapist because God considers this as murder in one verse and then in the next verse say the woman must marry her rapist.

Three of these are consent and only one is rape. They stuck the phrase [marrying her rapist with her consent] when the Bible says nothing of her consenting to marriage. Her consenting to sex is consenting to the marriage. His taking her to have sex is his consent and agreeing to the marriage.

Some say she must marry her "rapist" because she was not married or engaged. But the Bible is NOT saying that a man can rape all he wants as long as he is not married to his victim.

A few translations unfortunately translate this as rape when it is not.

 

[Reynolds]

I have heard a number of preachers waxing blustery concerning the 613 rules to live by for the Jews called the Mitzvot.

How many of you have actually taken the time to read through them?

In light of their being written for the Jews, what does it matter to a gentile preacher?

For those who would like to look at them here is a link: The 613 Mitzvot (Commandments)

I would like to read some comments you might have AFTER you have read through the rules. It doesn't take long, they are simple and easily understood.

How many might actually be beneficial for a believer to consider engaging in their life to be more conscious of Christ in their daily walk?

Never read them. Probably never will.

 

[kyredneck]

How many might actually be beneficial for a believer to consider engaging in their life to be more conscious of Christ in their daily walk?

10 Now therefore why make ye trial of God, that ye should put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? Acts 15

 

[Scarlett O.]

I read the whole thing @kyredneck and @Reynolds.

It's just commandments from the Genesis - Deuteronomy.

The problem is they are separated into categories without context. Some include a nitpickiness that's not in the Bible and therein lies the problem.

 

[Reynolds]

I read the whole thing @kyredneck and @Reynolds.

It's just commandments from the Genesis - Deuteronomy.

The problem is they are separated into categories without context. Some include a nitpickiness that's not in the Bible and therein lies the problem.

That is pretty much what I have always heard.