You are stressing a wonderful point, that being we are the Temple of Yahweh. That Temple is our bodies making up the Body of Yeshua, Jesus, as the Head. Now if you would just understand the difference between the commandments and the laws on morality as opposed to the ceremonial laws of the physical Temple, it would be good for you. Jesus, Yeshua, did not render any of the laws as obsolete, especially the commandments. We are dying on the outside, physically and to immorality, while we grow in the inner man. That inner man is the one to be resurrected come Yeshua's return. Yes, the outer man fades, but is not gone until He finishes the Work He began in us. This is expounded upon throughout the Word.
I do appreciate any and all comments that are made with a friendly tone. Sorry, I just had to start with that because the "gentle" seem to be a dying breed.
Genesis 17:10 This is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants after you: every male among you shall be circumcised.
Galatians 5:2
Behold I, Paul, say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no benefit to you.
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Leviticus 20:27 ‘Now a man or a woman who is a medium or a spiritist shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones, their bloodguiltiness is upon them.’”
Acts 16:16-18
[SUP]16 [/SUP]It happened that as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave-girl having a spirit of divination met us, who was bringing her masters much profit by fortune-telling. [SUP]17 [/SUP]Following after Paul and us, she kept crying out, saying, “These men are bond-servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation.” [SUP]18 [/SUP]She continued doing this for many days. But Paul was greatly annoyed, and turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” And it came out at that very moment.
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Leviticus 15:19 ‘When a woman has a discharge, if her discharge in her body is blood, she shall continue in her menstrual impurity for seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening.
Luke 8:43-48
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43 [/SUP]And a woman who had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and could not be healed by anyone, [SUP]
44 [/SUP]came up behind Him and
touched the fringe of His cloak, and
immediately her hemorrhage stopped. [SUP]
45 [/SUP]And Jesus said,
“Who is the one who touched Me?” And while they were all denying it, Peter said, “Master, the people are crowding and pressing in on You.” [SUP]
46 [/SUP]But Jesus said,
“Someone did touch Me, for I was aware that power had gone out of Me.” [SUP]
47 [/SUP]When the woman saw that she had not escaped notice, she came trembling and fell down before Him, and declared in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched Him, and how she had been immediately healed. [SUP]
48 [/SUP]And He said to her,
“Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.”
The bible does not record Jesus saying anything about the whole crowd being unclean. This would have been a huge problem according to the Law. If you touched something that was unclean, then you were unclean. The whole crowd would have been unclean - “Master, the people are crowding and pressing in on You.”
Leviticus 15:13-33
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13 [/SUP]‘Now when the man with the discharge becomes cleansed from his discharge, then he shall count off for himself seven days for his cleansing; he shall then wash his clothes and bathe his body in running water and will become clean. [SUP]
14 [/SUP]Then on the eighth day he shall take for himself two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and come before the Lord to the doorway of the tent of meeting and give them to the priest; [SUP]
15 [/SUP]and the priest shall offer them, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. So the priest shall make atonement on his behalf before the Lord because of his discharge.[SUP]
16 [/SUP]‘Now if a man has a seminal emission, he shall bathe all his body in water and be unclean until evening. [SUP]
17 [/SUP]As for any garment or any leather on which there is seminal emission, it shall be washed with water and be unclean until evening. [SUP]
18 [/SUP]If a man lies with a woman
so that there is a seminal emission, they shall both bathe in water and be unclean until evening.
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19 [/SUP]‘When a woman has a discharge,
if her discharge in her body is blood, she shall continue in her menstrual impurity for seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening. [SUP]
20 [/SUP]Everything also on which she lies during her menstrual impurity shall be unclean, and everything on which she sits shall be unclean. [SUP]
21 [/SUP]Anyone who touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening. [SUP]
22 [/SUP]Whoever touches any thing on which she sits shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening. [SUP]
23 [/SUP]Whether it be on the bed or on the thing on which she is sitting, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until evening.
[SUP]24 [/SUP]If a man actually lies with her so that her menstrual impurity is on him, he shall be unclean seven days, and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.
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25 [/SUP]‘Now if a woman has a discharge of her blood many days, not at the period of her menstrual impurity, or if she has a discharge beyond that period, all the days of her impure discharge she shall continue as though in her menstrual impurity; she is unclean. [SUP]
26 [/SUP]Any bed on which she lies all the days of her discharge shall be to her like her bed at menstruation; and every thing on which she sits shall be unclean, like her uncleanness at that time. [SUP]
27 [/SUP]Likewise, whoever touches them shall be unclean and shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening. [SUP]
28 [/SUP]When she becomes clean from her discharge, she shall count off for herself seven days; and afterward she will be clean. [SUP]
29 [/SUP]Then on the eighth day she shall take for herself two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them in to the priest, to the doorway of the tent of meeting. [SUP]
30 [/SUP]The priest shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. So the priest shall make atonement on her behalf before the Lord because of her impure discharge.’
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31 [/SUP]“Thus you shall keep the sons of Israel separated from their uncleanness, so that they will not die in their uncleanness by their defiling My tabernacle that is among them.” [SUP]
32 [/SUP]This is the law for the one with a discharge, and for the man who has a seminal emission so that he is unclean by it,
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33 [/SUP]and for the woman who is ill because of menstrual impurity, and for the one who has a discharge, whether a male or a female, or a man who lies with an unclean woman.
We would be in a constant state of unclean - The whole world is full of perverts and the sick (mentally and physically). Jesus fulfilled the Law. And we do many of the things that are covered by the Law. But if we are led by the Spirit, then we are not under the Law.
Galatians 4:21
Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not listen to the law?
Paul is saying here, as well as other places, that the Law is impossible to keep. Yes, there are good things that are in the Law that we show thru our actions. But we are not under the Law. But we establish the Law in the non-believer, because they see good works that we do through the Spirit / Or that we allow the Spirit to do through us. The Law leads us to Jesus Christ, who freely gives us the Spirit, who will guide us if we allow Him. And through the Spirit we do the will of God even though we are not under the Law (again, if led by the Spirit).
It sounds like a long way to get back to where we should have been to begin with, but it is a better place.
