Word: leviticus
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...Nobody likes to be accused of prooftexting, but in a soundbite culture, it's hard to resist - so darn tasty. Here's a typical exchange: Opponents of gay marriage cite Leviticus 18:22: "You shall not lie with a man as with a woman. It is an abomination." They also like Romans 1:26-7: "For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions... the men... committing shameless acts with men." But gay marriage defenders note that Leviticus also orders the faithful to stone mouthy children to death, and that the "dishonorable passions" passage can be read to equate...
...rabbi, a cantor and a Muslim Koranic chanter in the Angelica Lutheran Church in Los Angeles' Pico-Union district. Her pastor, the Rev. Frank Alton of nearby Immanuel Presbyterian, is preaching her into her new life here under a kind of benevolent house arrest. Alton's text is Leviticus 19: 33: "The stranger who dwells among you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." Alton concludes, "The New Sanctuary Movement is a light in the darkness, water in the desert. We need...
...Adams or two Eves but one of each. Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria got it right, regardless of his being considered "archconservative" in your article. The following are not his words, but God's: "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable" (Leviticus 18: 22 and 20: 13). If the Anglican community seriously considers that same-sex relationships are a matter open for discussion, then the Bible should be modified. Since the Word of God is immutable, then the Bible will surely modify the Anglican community. Elezer Puglia, ZUG, SWITZERLAND...
...it’s written in the Bible.” He makes a pretty compelling point. But one imagines that even the closest, most devout reading of the Good Book will not yield any loopholes concerning outspoken male prostitutes. So, either we’re reading Leviticus wrong, or it might be time for some debate...
...After a period of relative eclipse, mikvahs are getting their total makeover. For almost two thousand years, in keeping with a passage from the Bible's book of Leviticus, traditional Judaism required its womenfolk to submerge themselves in "living" water - from an ocean, spring or rainfall - fulfilling purity rules and marking the rhythm of marital life. The baths were a staple of traditional Jewish life before World War II. After the Holocaust, however, a majority of Jews in the U.S. and elsewhere liberalized their practice, abandoning Orthodoxy's many rabbinic obligations as pass?. The mikvah was a case in point...