The Law and the Christian

Recently, the Bible has become a target of ridicule by politicians and persons of influence.  Most notably, the book of Leviticus has fallen under quite an attack by the liberal left, who want to spin the ancient laws of Israel so that the Bible is no longer relevant in today’s society.

I have to say, if you want to bash Leviticus for the difficulty of reading it, then fine.  Okay.  I have speed read through the book three or four times just so that I can read it without falling asleep.  However, that being said, let us analyze Leviticus for what it is.  It is the priestly portion of the torah, or the pentateuch, or whatever you want to call the five books of Moses.  Combined with Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, these books comprise what is commonly known as “The Law” (By the way, torah is Hebrew for law…you learn something new every day).  At any rate, these laws form the basis of God’s covenant with Israel.  What Mr. Obama, Jack Black, and a host of others who make fun of the Old Testament’s seeming ridiculous laws don’t get is that these laws are part of a land-ownership covenant between the LORD and the people of Israel.  In short, the covenant between these two parties was this:  If Israel obeyed God, they could keep the land.  If they didn’t, He would kick them off.  In the end, they didn’t keep it, and He kicked them off (technically, they were deported because they had not honored the sabbath of the land rule for 490 years, thus resulting in being kicked out for 70 years, one for every land sabbath not kept).  I don’t think God is going to burn anyone with fire or brimstone now for sowing two different kinds of crops.  However, He also isn’t promising you a spot in Canaan.  So, there you have it.

Does this mean, then, that for us the laws are no longer valid?  Certainly not!  Jesus affirmed the law in Matthew 5, and He also affirmed the power of the law when He said that the greatest commandments were to love God and love your neighbor.  The morality of the law is still the same, the need for holiness is still the same.  Moral issues raised in the Old Testament, then reiterated in the New Testament, should obviously be considered to be sinful in the eyes of God.

I say this because I read that President Obama’s choice to head up the Faith organization committee is a self-proclaimed gay Christian who says that the New Testament teachings against homosexuality are wrong.  I would challenge Mr. Harry Knox to provide reasons why scripture that has stood the test of time for 2,000 years can now be wrong.  I don’t really have the time to devote much more to this, but if it is a topic that people are interested in, I would be surely happy to build a more cohesive case for the legitimacy of Scripture.

Barack Obama and abortion

Well, we are in a brand new presidential era, the Barack Obama era.  I have to admit that I find myself at least wanting to like him.  I want to believe in him, and I want to see him succeed.  I see in him a lot of promise as a leader, and so far, he has even been fearless in pummeling the Wall Street Weiners who got us in the financial quandary we are in.  I really want to like him.

In the end, though, I can’t.  I can’t for a couple of reasons.  The biggest reason is my feeling on abortion.  I realize that those who support abortion feel that the pro-life position is uneducated and unenlightened.  I have to ask you a question:  Which is more enlightened, encouraging a young mother who does not want to be pregnant to continue through until the child is born and then give the child a loving adopted home, or stabbing the child in the back of the head with an ice pick, sucking its brains out with a shop-vac, then tossing the tiny, lifeless body in a trash can like an empty bag of Cheetos?  You don’t actually think you can hide behind the whole “women’s rights” thing after that, do you?

Yes, women have rights.  They have rights over their bodies in the concept that no one has a right to hurt their bodies.  However, to argue that abortion should be allowable based on women’s rights is laughable.  A zygote is genetically different from the mother upon conception.  The zygote needs exactly what every other organism needs to grow and develop: food, water, and oxygen.  How then can you really claim that it is just part of woman’s body?

The deal is this:  when you have unprotected sex, you can and probably will eventually have a child.  That’s the way God designed us.  You don’t wanna have a baby?  THEN STOP HAVING UNPROTECTED SEX.  Be responsible.

What does this have to do with Mr. Obama?  Well, Obama has said over and over that he wants to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, that will allow for far less control over abortion than we have now.  There is nothing more barbaric in this culture than the practice of abortion, yet the “Enlightened One” feels that, rather than making a morally responsible choice, he should enable more to devalue life, then attempt to “educate” the masses on the seriousness of abortion, so that they are “safe” and “rare.”  We have casually stood by as more than 40 million innocent souls have been scattered to the wind by abortion and the irresponsibility of those who should be making sane decisions regarding the future of the growing lives inside of them.

Mr. Obama has some very strong traits that have made him someone who is a capable motivator and a charismatic speaker and leader.  However, without proper moral constraint, and without the ability to truly decipher what is morally correct, Mr. Obama is dooming America to sliding down an ever slippery slope of moral decay.  We can no longer continue to sit idly by while children are being brutally murdered in ways that would be censored from most movies.  Unless everyday Americans decide to act, we will only plunge further into this barbaric darkness that the latest in human thought and philosophy promises to lead us.  It is sad when those who are least capable of defending themselves are the least legally defended entities.  Shame on us as a society.  The gas chambers and ovens of Nazi Germany have been surpassed sevenfold by our own moral decay and lack of responsiblity toward sexuality.  That alone should be enough for those like Barack Obama and other Pro-Choice leaders in our country to stop and reconsider their actions and opinions.  I only pray that someday, someone will sound the alarm loud enough for those in power to listen.