So this law is Spiritual as every other part. Since you are so learned on scripture what is your take on the spiritual meaning of this verse?
Leviticus 15:22 And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Romans 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
1 Corinthians 2:But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned .
Romans 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be .
Cherry picking, suppressing evidence, or the fallacy of incomplete evidence is the act of pointing to individual cases or data that seem to confirm a particular position, while ignoring a significant portion of related cases or data that may contradict that position. It is a kind of fallacy of selective attention, the most common example of which is the
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The term is based on the perceived process of harvesting fruit, such as
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logical fallacies. For example, the "fallacy of
anecdotal evidence" tends to overlook large amounts of data in favor of that known personally, "selective use of evidence" rejects material unfavorable to an argument, while a
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You've cherry-picked verses that seem to support your position of spiritualizing away the very real and fleshly demands of the Law.
What you've actually done is given more support to what the New Covenant tells us, and that is that we who are in Christ are DEAD to the Law. It has NOTHING more to do with us.
There is no need to pick and choose or try to figure out how to keep spiritually that which cannot (or is not convenient to) be kept. We are DEAD to the Law (Rom. 7).
You guys are cracking me up with your versions of niddah - do you realize that the proper observance of the cleanliness laws means that you go without sex for 12-14 days EVERY month, unless your wife is post-menopausal, depending on the length of time the woman bleeds?
When she becomes clean of her discharge, she shall count off seven days, and after that she shall be clean (Leviticus 15:18).
Please don't misunderstand; I'm not advocating for sex during menses (yuk), or not cleaning properly during/after menses or sexual relations or waiting an appropriate amount of time after childbirth (and I'm one who has birthed seven babies!). These things are common sense today.
But we are not required by Old Covenant Law to do the ritual bathing and not touching, sitting, etc. during menses. Our relationship with God is not affected one way or the other by the performance or non-performance of Old Covenant laws.
-JGIG
