Gay Christians Choosing Celibacy

[LOSTONE]

 

http://leviticusbans.tumblr.com/post/23730370413/76-things-banned-in-leviticus

 

Here’s chapter and verse on a more-or-less comprehensive list of things banned in the Leviticus book of the bible. A decent number of them are punishable by death.

Unless you’ve never done any of them (and 54 to 56 are particularly tricky), perhaps it’s time to lay off quoting 18:22 for a while?

1.       Burning any yeast or honey in offerings to God (2:11)

2.       Failing to include salt in offerings to God (2:13)

3.       Eating fat (3:17)

4.       Eating blood (3:17)

5.       Failing to testify against any wrongdoing you’ve witnessed (5:1)

6.       Failing to testify against any wrongdoing you’ve been told about (5:1)

7.       Touching an unclean animal (5:2)

8.       Carelessly making an oath (5:4)

9.       Deceiving a neighbour about something trusted to them (6:2)

10.   Finding lost property and lying about it (6:3)

11.   Bringing unauthorised fire before God (10:1)

12.   Letting your hair become unkempt (10:6)

13.   Tearing your clothes (10:6)

14.   Drinking alcohol in holy places (bit of a problem for Catholics, this ‘un) (10:9)

15.   Eating an animal which doesn’t both chew cud and has a divided hoof (cf: camel, rabbit, pig) (11:4-7)

16.   Touching the carcass of any of the above (problems here for rugby) (11:

17.   Eating – or touching the carcass of – any seafood without fins or scales (11:10-12)

18.   Eating – or touching the carcass of - eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, the red kite, any kind of black kite, any kind of raven, the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl, the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey, the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat. (11:13-19)

19.   Eating – or touching the carcass of – flying insects with four legs, unless those legs are jointed (11:20-22)

20.   Eating any animal which walks on all four and has paws (good news for cats) (11:27)

21.   Eating – or touching the carcass of – the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard, the gecko, the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink and the chameleon (11:29)

22.   Eating – or touching the carcass of – any creature which crawls on many legs, or its belly (11:41-42)

23.   Going to church within 33 days after giving birth to a boy (12:4)

24.   Going to church within 66 days after giving birth to a girl (12:5)

25.   Having sex with your mother (18:7)

26.   Having sex with your father’s wife (18:

27.   Having sex with your sister (18:9)

28.   Having sex with your granddaughter (18:10)

29.   Having sex with your half-sister (18:11)

30.   Having sex with your biological aunt (18:12-13)

31.   Having sex with your uncle’s wife (18:14)

32.   Having sex with your daughter-in-law (18:15)

33.   Having sex with your sister-in-law (18:16)

34.   Having sex with a woman and also having sex with her daughter or granddaughter (bad news for Alan Clark) (18:17)

35.   Marrying your wife’s sister while your wife still lives (18:18)

36.   Having sex with a woman during her period (18:19)

37.   Having sex with your neighbour’s wife (18:20)

38.   Giving your children to be sacrificed to Molek (18:21)

39.   Having sex with a man “as one does with a woman” (18:22)

40.   Having sex with an animal (18:23)

41.   Making idols or “metal gods” (19:4)

42.   Reaping to the very edges of a field (19:9)

43.   Picking up grapes that have fallen in your  vineyard (19:10)

44.   Stealing (19:11)

45.   Lying (19:11)

46.   Swearing falsely on God’s name (19:12)

47.   Defrauding your neighbour (19:13)

48.   Holding back the wages of an employee overnight (not well observed these days) (19:13)

49.   Cursing the deaf or abusing the blind (19:14)

50.   Perverting justice, showing partiality to either the poor or the rich (19:15)

51.   Spreading slander (19:16)

52.   Doing anything to endanger a neighbour’s life (19:16)

53.   Seeking revenge or bearing a grudge (19:18)

54.   Mixing fabrics in clothing (19:19)

55.   Cross-breeding animals (19:19)

56.   Planting different seeds in the same field (19:19)

57.   Sleeping with another man’s slave (19:20)

58.   Eating fruit from a tree within four years of planting it (19:23)

59.   Practising divination or seeking omens (tut, tut astrology) (19:26)

60.   Trimming your beard (19:27)

61.   Cutting your hair at the sides (19:27)

62.   Getting tattoos (19:28)

63.   Making your daughter prostitute herself (19:29)

64.   Turning to mediums or spiritualists (19:31)

65.   Not standing in the presence of the elderly (19:32)

66.   Mistreating foreigners – “the foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born”  (19:33-34)

67.   Using dishonest weights and scales (19:35-36)

68.   Cursing your father or mother (punishable by death) (20:9)

69.   Marrying a prostitute, divorcee or widow if you are a priest (21:7,13)

70.   Entering a place where there’s a dead body as a priest (21:11)

71.   Slaughtering a cow/sheep and its young on the same day (22:28)

72.   Working on the Sabbath (23:3)

73.   Blasphemy (punishable by stoning to death) (24:14)

74.   Inflicting an injury; killing someone else’s animal; killing a person must be punished in kind (24:17-22)

75.   Selling land permanently (25:23)

76.   Selling an Israelite as a slave (foreigners are fine) (25:42)

 

 

All I did was to share my view on this subject matter using scriptures as my foundation. I was not attacking anyone or promoting hate or wrong behavior as a believer. I think my post was well in acceptable realms as so many others are I have read. So I see no reason to back off anything at this time when it comes to what I post and what I use as the foundations of my post. If you got offended by anything I posted, I am sorry for that and perhaps you would feel better to report any offense you have gotten from me. Thanks.

[Tacenda]

All I did was to share my view on this subject matter using scriptures as my foundation. I was not attacking anyone or promoting hate or wrong behavior as a believer. I think my post was well in acceptable realms as so many others are I have read. So I see no reason to back off anything at this time when it comes to what I post and what I use as the foundations of my post. If you got offended by anything I posted, I am sorry for that and perhaps you would feel better to report any offense you have gotten from me. Thanks.

Lostone, we just don't see things the same, I just wanted to show that in Leviticus it has the old laws, the scripture you quoted was lumped in with all these insane rules. So the old laws that Jesus outlawed or gave his life to get rid of, IMHO. I wasn't offended, just sharing this since it came up with a Google search.

Also, I didn't say any of that intro, if you go to the link, it was someone saying it to someone else, most likely to gay bashers using the scriptures to condemn them for living a gay lifestyle, I'm guessing.

[Bill “Papa” Lee]

This is so strange to me given that the push for acceptance of different lifestyles is most often presented as it is only fair to allow everyone to have the same ability to choose how they want to live because only then can they live authentically…but then this perception is one has to choose as expected to choose (and that isn't celibacy for many) or it really isn't authentic.  How is this any different than making someone feel pressured to hide they have homosexual feelings because that is unacceptable?

Often those who are no aquatinted with homosexuality think that being Gay is a choice...it is not. We cannot help how we feel, but we can all chose how we act. In the religious world there of many examples where persons live celibate lives in connection with there faith. Priests and Nuns within the Catholic Church, it is expected that they live lives that are against there nature. Almost every religion on the earth expects members remain celebrate until marriage, and in some cases marriage never comes. Yet many of these persons live celibate lives for there entire lives. The commandments of God are the same for all, not just for those who think they can. Commandments are "Given for a principle with promise, adapted to the capacity of the weak and the weakest of all Saints, who are or can be called Saints". (D&C 89: 3). The Apostle Paul taught that some are eunicks for the faith. It is a very difficult to live our convictions, but the rewards that we shall have as a result can outshine the dimly lighted world in which we live. Every young man who waits to marry in the Temple are living against the nature of the natural man, and keeping out thoughts in check when it comes to attraction again goes against our nature. So we all struggle to put of the natural man to obtain the reward of becoming the "Spiritual Man".

It is heartbreaking at times in the physical sense, and darn near impossible at times. But only "darn near"; "For in Christ are all things possible". I know the suffering and pain that homosexuals face, it hits home...my home. If there is any price to be paid for my child who is Gay...I pray that I be allowed to pay it for my baby girl. Well not a little girl anymore. I am just using you post Calmoriah to extend the point I am trying to make.