Sentences with phrase «purity codes»

But we have our own purity codes these days — people we cast out from our communities or surround with Bible - wielding mobs, labels we assign to those who don't fit, conditions we place on God's grace, theological and behavioral checklists we hand out before baptism or communion, sins real or imagined we delight in taking seriously because we'd like to think they are much more severe than our own.

We tend to look down our noses at these ancient people with their purity codes regulating everything from the fibers in their clothes to the people they touched.

To the contrary, Paul is referencing a point drawn from Jewish purity codes that impurity passed from that which is unclean to that which is clean, and not the other way around.

Add to that, a prudish sub-culture of Evangelical Christianity wholly obsessed with sex, sexuality, and purity codes (perhaps a stubborn remnant of our Puritan heritage).

Do you follow Jewish purity codes?

She points to my observation of the Levitical purity codes and my highly literal interpretation of praising my husband at the city gate as examples of violating these interpretive principles.

And yet Grudem would likely be the first to concede that the Levitical purity codes no longer apply, as the «old law» has been fulfilled in Christ — an interpretive assumption many Christians take for granted, but that nonetheless represents a measure of (deliberate and thoughtful) selectivity.

I often struggle with what appear to be misogynistic elements of the Levitical purity codes, of ancient Israeli wartime conduct, of the letters of Paul and the doctrines of the early church.

I have no obligation to follow Jewish purity codes.

Convenient that people who argue that way about the law know that anything * they * do was just in the temporary purity code, and anything they find disgusting or uncomfortable they know was in the moral, eternal part.

-- especially when, as most of you would know, the law prohibiting homosexual behavior is imbedded in a context in Leviticus in the holiness code, the purity code, as it's sometimes called, which also prohibits the planting of two kinds of seed in the same field, or the wearing of garments made of two kinds of cloth.

Considering there are only 6 or 7 verses in the entire bible even potentially on the subject, and excluding the purity code leaves 3 to 4 at most (ALL of which are poor and misunderstood translations), it is clear you have not even begun your research into this topic.

What a huge leap to imagine that an ancient purity code in Leviticus 18 bears upon consenting gays and lesbians in the 21st century and has anything to do with ordination.

Not exact matches

The other part of Leviticus — the laws addressing the purity of the community as a whole — is called the Holiness Code.

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Ethical Dane breeders follow a strict code to assure the purity of their color lines.

Most of these dogs are not genuine, purebred Cotons de Tulear.Your only assurance of breed purity is purchasing a Malagasy Coton deTulear through a CTCA Code of Ethics Breeder.

She has an obvious precedent in an older code breaker, Peter Halley, who refuses to believe in the primacy and purity of self - expression.

Eggs are traditionally coded positively, embodying perfection, purity, resurrection, and unbounded potential.

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Perform all duties and responsibilities in compliance with standard operating procedures, Safety Quality Identity Potency Purity (SQUIPP), regulations outlined in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and all other applicable federal, state and local regulations.