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Worked with a bunch of Orthodox guys at an older job. Christianity, including Catholicism, tends to talk about the "spirit" of the rules. After all, most Christ
by shermozle 7y ago
Worked with a bunch of Orthodox guys at an older job. Christianity, including Catholicism, tends to talk about the "spirit" of the rules. After all, most Christians ignore a huge swathe of very clear, very explicit rules in the Bible. Like eating pork, which you can't get much clearer than how it's stated in the Bible.
Orthodox Jews aren't like that. The book is the word of their deity. What is written is the law. The spirit doesn't come into it. If the deity didn't want you working around it, he'd have written that into the law.
- geowwy 7y ago> After all, most Christians ignore a huge swathe of very > clear, very explicit rules in the Bible. Like eating pork, > which you can't get much clearer than how it's stated in > the Bible. The law against eating pork was only put in place for the nation of Israel. Non-Israelites are not obligated to avoid pork – even the ones that follow Yahweh. Jews and Christians both agree on this. There is actually a whole group of people who believe in Orthodox Jewish teaching but don't adopt a Jewish identity or follow Jewish laws. The Rabbis teach them that it's enough just to follow the 7 Laws of Noah – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Laws_of_Noah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Laws_of_Noah
- lidHanteyk 7y agoThe Commandments were in place for the people of the nation of Israel; that is, for the members of the Twelve Tribes. At this point, some 3000 years after the diaspora began, most people should be eligible for the Commandments due to pedigree collapse. It's not clear what Covenant is extended in return, though.
- drunknhik 7y agoeh...the original Christians were jews. Yet they still abrogated these laws.