Is it normal to pick and choose our beliefs

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Is it normal to pick and choose which commands you choose to believe and follow from the Bible, or must you believe and do everything it commands you to do?
The Bible says that homosexuality is an abomination, Leviticus, JACOBS: 18:22. Must you therefore believe it?
Should you sell your youngest daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7?
There are employees who insist on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly says they should be put to death. Is their employer morally obligated to kill them himself? Or is it okay that he call the police?
Touching the skin of a dead pig makes one unclean. Leviticus 11:7. If they promise to wear gloves, can the Washington Redskins still play football? Can Notre Dame? Can West Point or the 49ers?
Does the whole town really have to be together to stone a farmer for planting different crops side by side, or can just a few zealots do it when they wish?
Shouldn't we burn Kim Davis in a small Christian gathering for wearing garments made from two different threads? The Bible commands believers to do exactly that!
If you believe and follow one thing in the Bible, are you not obligated to follow all things as instructed?
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  • heckleBucker
    8 years ago

    Yes, it's normal.

    Catholicism is a cafeteria religion. Catholics pick and choose which ever beliefs or scriptural interpretations they want, and then put them on their food tray. So, they are not united in a common faith, only in a common cafeteria.

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    • thegypsysailor
      8 years ago

      "cafeteria religion", I like that.

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    • Ellenna
      8 years ago

      I have news for you: catholicism isn't the only christian religion! Protestant faiths do exactly the same thing and impose just as much guilt on their followers, but without the relief of confession.

      I love it how the pope is infallible but can change things: eg the current one is relaxing the divorce laws for catholics, so what happens to all those catholics burning in hell for disobeying the previous laws and remarrying after divorce? What happened to the souls of all those poor little unbaptised babies when the church decided limbo doesn't really exist?

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      • heckleBucker
        8 years ago

        You raise a couple of good issues here. Firstly, infallibility cannot apply to the laws of man. (Canon law). There are many other restrictions. Read the Wikipedia article for more clarity. It's a good read.
        Secondly, many mainstream Protestant religions pick and choose as well. Here in the US, the Catholics are notorious for lack of unity in religious ideas.

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  • NeofelisNebulosa
    8 years ago

    Regardless of what the Bible says about modern Christians being free from the Old Law, people still try to use it to support their agenda (hence the whole gays should be killed thing).

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    • poorbaby
      8 years ago

      And only their agenda. They recognize the laws no longer apply when it come to something like eating kosher (also Liviticus) but if it is something they do agree with they pretend not to know it doesn't apply

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      • NeofelisNebulosa
        8 years ago

        Exactly

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        • anti-hero
          8 years ago

          Granted homosexuality is also mentioned in the new testament and the other things are not.

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          • itsnotnormal5
            8 years ago

            You want to cut off your leg because you believe in your mind you are an amputee.

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          • Ellenna
            8 years ago

            And so is women having to cover their heads in church and not speak

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            • anti-hero
              8 years ago

              Sounds like a good idea to me. Women talk to damn much the rest of the time. Also, if they wear a hat they won't have to spend 2 hours fixing their hair before church. That means an extra two hours to cook me a big breakfast and give me a blowjob.

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          • NeofelisNebulosa
            8 years ago

            It is mentioned once or twice, I'll give you that. However, there's a theory about that... That it doesn't actually refer to homosexual behavior specifically. The word wasn't even put in the bible until relatively recently (can't remember the exact year)

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          • Lord_Flatulitis
            8 years ago

            You would know all about that.

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            • anti-hero
              8 years ago

              Yes, because unlike you I can read and understand books that don't pop up.

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    • nobody13
      8 years ago

      "But duh bahbull is god's unchangin' word!!!"

      *Said while adjusting the elastic wasteband on their undies and eating shellfish after a hard day of work on the Sabbath*

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  • poorbaby
    8 years ago

    Those are the laws of Gods covenant with Abraham marked through curcomsison. Christ freed Christians from the law and his followers are now baptised by water.

    Galatians 3 11:14

    Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because “the righteous will live by faith.”[f] 12 The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, it says, “The person who does these things will live by them.”[g] 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.”[h] 14 He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.

    Galatians 5 1:26
    It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

    2 Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. 3 Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. 4 You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. 5 For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.

    7 You were running a good race. Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth? 8 That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you. 9 “A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough.” 10 I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is throwing you into confusion, whoever that may be, will have to pay the penalty. 11 Brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished. 12 As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!

    Life by the Spirit
    13 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh[a]; rather, serve one another humbly in love. 14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”[b] 15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.

    16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever[c] you want. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

    19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

    22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.

    Sonas per Galatians 5 14 above the only law under Christ is love your neighbour as you love yourself.

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  • Stamex
    7 years ago

    Dude. Just pick what you want. You believe in a floating spaghetti god that punished evil doers with soul pasta? Go for it!
    You be you, and I won't make it obvious I'm harshly judging you for believing in a spaghetti god. You freak.

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  • KingTermite
    8 years ago

    Super normal.

    People are so good at cognitive dissonance it's scary.

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    • [Old Memory]
      8 years ago

      You work in entertainment and get mad at your customers. But you can't take your anger out on them so you vent your frustration by being a rude bully to random strangers online.

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