Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Leviticus 21:18-23
18 No man who has any defect may come near: no man who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed;
19 no man with a crippled foot or hand,
20 or who is hunchbacked or dwarfed, or who has any eye defect, or who has festering or running sores or damaged testicles.
21 No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect is to come near to present the offerings made to the LORD by fire. He has a defect; he must not come near to offer the food of his God.
22 He may eat the most holy food of his God, as well as the holy food;
23 yet because of his defect, he must not go near the curtain or approach the altar, and so desecrate my sanctuary. I am the LORD, who makes them holy.
Blind, crippled, broken hand, less than 20/20 vision, or just been kicked in the junk recently? HEATHEN! BURN IN HELL!
- M4H
its not a sin to get a tat...thats sanction was part of the law of Moses, which was replaced by the commands of Christ.
Gal 3:24 "Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith." (KJV)
In this verse Paul, the writer of Galatians, uses a metaphor about the Jewish Law, the Greek word "paedagogos" which was in ancient Greece, a trustworthy attendant for children.
The "schoolmaster" in the historical context of this Scripture was not the teacher, but rather the slave, who cared for his master's son's from around the age of 6 or 7 until they reached puberty. The servant (usually elderly) would escort the child to school and care for his safety in his immaturity making sure he was instructed, seeing that this child too was his master. Once the child grew up, he was no longer required to obey his servant.
The technical duty of the attendant, according to historians, was to guard the children from evil, both physical and moral, rather than instruction. He went with them to and from the school and the gymnasium, and was personally responsible for their safety and protected them from any bad company. (See Smith's "Dictionary of Antiquities" about Paedagogus).
This is a striking imagery of how the Law was primarily given for a certain purpose as an attendant to lead us to Jesus, who is the real teacher. Paul makes it clear that the Law was never given to teach us (we could never obey it), but rather it was a finger pointing to the One who is the only teacher, Jesus.
This being the case, the law no longer need be obeyed. We must obey the commands of Christ instead. The law was designed to function in a Theocracy of true believers in God, the law simply won't work for christians surrounded by the world. If you kill one of my animals (say my dog) and you were not a christian, and didn't honor the laws of Moses (hypothetically proposing that we
do still need to obey them) you would never give me the compensation it granted, and there would be no one to ensure you did (like the elders of the tribes of Israel, and later the judges and kings did).
~new
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