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John_C said:
This morning radio Bible reading was in Leviticus 18 where the passage listed various no-no's in sexual relations. The list was very detailed but by today's Bible teaching it would have been incomplete. Why didn't the law just say something like all sex outside of marriage is forbidden?
Hmmmmmm, you haven't fallen prey, at least in this one isolated case, to the popular idea that the Bible is a religious encyclopedia, have you? <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/giggle.gif" alt="" /> What I'm trying to say with a little bit of humor, based upon unfortunately, a reality that exists among far too many, is that you should not expect that Leviticus 18 or any other passage on its own to provide a definitive statement on any particular topic. We are to use the "Analogy of Faith", i.e., using the whole of God's Word, comparing scripture with scripture to come to a true knowledge of what God says on any given subject. When we fail to do that, not only do we end up with distorted teachings, even totally wrong teachings and further, we dishonor God by ignoring ALL that He has revealed about His will for us.

Let the context determine the scope of the subject it is addressing. And, by doing so, we will then better focus upon what it is exactly that God has intended us to learn in that particular passage. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

In His Grace,

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simul iustus et peccator

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