So the question must be asked, what part of the law is being selected to follow?
In denying the understanding of the original instructions within the law, anything goes. Then we start to hand out warm fuzzies and anything else that will scratch those itching ears. Just for starters one can identify with the persuasions listed in Exodus chapter 20 thru 24. Then I will quote Leviticus for loving our neighbor as ourselves.
Leviticus 19:3-18 (KJV)
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3 [/SUP]Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I
am the LORD your God.
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4 [/SUP]Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I
am the LORD your God.
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5 [/SUP]And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, ye shall offer it at your own will.
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6 [/SUP]It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow: and if ought remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in the fire.
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7 [/SUP]And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it
is abominable; it shall not be accepted.
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8 [/SUP]Therefore
every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
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9 [/SUP]And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.
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10 [/SUP]And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather
every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I
am the LORD your God.
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11 [/SUP]Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
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12 [/SUP]And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I
am the LORD.
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13 [/SUP]Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob
him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
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14 [/SUP]Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I
am the LORD.
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15 [/SUP]Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty:
but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
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16 [/SUP]Thou shalt not go up and down
as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I
am the LORD.
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17 [/SUP]Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
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18 [/SUP]Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people,
but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
If we make excuses like that culture is different than ours today, and fail to apply the concepts that are the same today as then, we leave ourselves vulnerable to making up our own form of love that isn't the love of God. If we can't connect the dots, we just as well are admitting that we are of a carnal mind.
Romans 8:3-8 (KJV)
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3 [/SUP]For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
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4 [/SUP]That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
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5 [/SUP]For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
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6 [/SUP]For to be carnally minded
is death; but to be spiritually minded
is life and peace.
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Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
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8 [/SUP]So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.