From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Sep 7 8:32:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9EC637B400 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 08:32:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from directvinternet.com (dsl-65-185-140-165.telocity.com [65.185.140.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 599E243E65 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 08:32:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nwestfal@directvinternet.com) Received: from Tolstoy.home.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by directvinternet.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g87FVAGd047861; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 08:31:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nwestfal@directvinternet.com) Received: from localhost (nwestfal@localhost) by Tolstoy.home.lan (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) with ESMTP id g87FVAtN047858; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 08:31:10 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: Tolstoy.home.lan: nwestfal owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 08:31:10 -0700 (PDT) From: "Neal E. Westfall" X-X-Sender: nwestfal@Tolstoy.home.lan To: Terry Lambert Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? In-Reply-To: <3D79A5B8.C6176B8E@mindspring.com> Message-ID: <20020907082509.M44831-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On 2002-09-06 10:02 +0000, Neal E. Westfall wrote: > > > The reason not all of the laws written in Leviticus are any longer > > > applicable is that they had a theological purpose. > > > > That's so convenient, isn't it? > > IMO, they had practical purpose. You can always trace taboos > back to community experiential knowledge. I rather think the > pork taboo was rooted in disease avoidance, since there are a > lot of diseases that cross species boundaries with pork, if it > is not prepared properly. Lacking sufficient foundation to > discover what "properly" was, the taboo was established (there > are alternate theories; that oneis merely the simplest). Here's mine: The people of Israel were set aside by God as His chosen people. As such they were to be distinguished from the gentiles through ceremonial practices, one of which included not eating pork. When the Messiah came, God expanded His promises to the whole world, there was no longer to be any distinction between jew and gentile, for all are one in Christ, thus to retain the ceremonial laws would be to not admit that Christ now joined the two peoples together in reconciliation with God. What do you think? 8-) Neal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message