Sometimes, it makes sense. Like too me, if you profess to be a Christian, that means that besides accepting him as your Savior, you are on a journey to grow closer to him in all the ways that you possibly can while being on this Earth...which kind of means that you at least attempt to read his Word and follow his commands.
I believe that in the Bible, nothing ever becomes old-fashioned or irrelevant no matter how much times passes.
"Your word, LORD, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens." Psalm 119:89
Whenever there are things in the Old Testament that are not held in high esteem anymore, that's probably because something in the New Testament changed that law and made it new in a different way. The Old Testament (to the best of my limited knowledge) was written for mainly history and context, and the New Testament was written mainly for application.
But it's when people who confidently say that they are Christian and want to follow God with their life and live for His glory...AND repeatedly and knowingly disobey his commands without guilt...those are the people who I sincerely want to understand.
Confession: I'm a judgmental person. It's bad.
"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?" Matthew 7:3
I'm working on it slowly and with lots of prayer..But I somehow cannot seem to balance it with this one..
"So watch yourselves. "If your brother or sister sins against you, rebuke them; and if they repent, forgive them." Luke 17:3
Yeah, okay. Forgive, forgive, forgive like Jesus. Rebuke and forgive.... And if they don't repent? Then what....
A person can't continually rebuke can they? That's kind of....socially unacceptable.
Our society loves its freedom. "I can do whatever I want because it's my life" It's none of your business what people do behind closed doors.
I have come to no conclusion...Probably cause I haven't read Revelations... The answer is in Revelations...
Maybe.
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