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You shall not mix fabrics

I know a lot of people say the Bible says this and is therefore a ridiculous book to follow, but I'm going to show why that's dishonest and also explain the meaning and importance of those verses.

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The verses in question are

Leviticus 19:19

"You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with another kind: you shall not sow your field with mixed seed: neither shall a garment of mixed linen and wool come upon you."

And

Deuteronomy 22:11

"You shall not wear a garment of different sorts, as of woolen and linen together."

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It's specifically and only linen and wool God commanded not to mix in a garment.

But why is this important?

This is actually talking about a person's character rather than their clothes.

When you marry someone, you become clothed with their nature. When you unify with someone, you become clothed with their nature. As Christians, we are clothed with Jesus' righteousness.

God is saying be clothed with either linen or wool, but not both.

Linen comes from the flax plant while wool comes from sheep. One is from the ground and the other is from an animal. Cain worked with plants while Abel tended a herd. So linen represents Cain's offering and wool represents Abel's offering. Abel offered God his firstlings and additionally the fat of them, while Cain did not give the best offering he could. Abel was selfless and Cain was selfish. So God is telling us here to be married to Selflessness or be married to Selfishness, but don't be adulterous by flip flopping between the two. Be hot or cold, but don't be lukewarm. The choice is ours, but he DOES tell us which one to choose.

"I have set life and death before you, blessings and curses. Now choose life"

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If “sin” has been conquered, then we have nothing to worry about. If we have something to worry about, then Jesus failed.

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Cherry Picking Christian?

I am kind of weary of constantly explaining the bible to unbelievers who most likely have never even read the bible. Christians are not cherry picking which laws to follow and which laws to reject. God made two separate covenants one for Jews and one for Christians.

Parables...

A) A car dealer makes two separate contracts with one customer and another customer with different responsibilities and features.

B) A parent makes two separate set of rules for their children of different ages with different responsibilities and privileges.

Passages about the New Covenant.

1. New Covenant.

In the new covenant the law is written on our hearts and in the New Testament. It may include Old Testament laws that can be suggested in the lens of the new covenant. God regenerates the heart of a person who repents to give them the ability to keep the new covenant law. It’s more merciful and graceful because of our fallen flesh that wages war against our spirit.

Hebrews 8:6-13 But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second. For he finds fault with them when he says: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.” In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

2. New Husband & Being Born Again.

Christ is said to be our new merciful husband instead of the old husband which was the law. Christ completed the law on our behalf then joined us to Him in his death and resurrection.

Romans 7:1-6 Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.

3. The Purpose of the Old Law

The law was to show us none can be justified by the law because trying to be good in a forced way only leads people to failure. Christ came to give us a new law with more grace that is written on our hearts. He regenerates and sanctifies us to have the ability to keep his law.

Romans 7:7-13 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.

Galatians 3:21-24 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Acts 17:30-31 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.

What do we follow?

We follow the New Testament with the New covenant. Many of the Old Testament laws were just for Jewish people. Other Old Testament laws are still part of the new covenant.

Old Covenant: There was many laws that were just cultural to make them a distinct nation such as hair grooming, eating habits, clothing styles, circumcision, feast days and so on. This covenant is good for references to understand the character and intentions of God.

New Covenant: The new laws in some ways became more strict because they got to the core problems but it’s also more merciful. Not murdering became not murdering or hating, not committing adultery became not committing adultery or lusting and not committing homosexuality became not having homosexual lust. The death penalty was removed to favor a more merciful stance. It even specifically declares that all food has become clean to us to eat so we can partake in pork and seafood. It goes on to says you shouldn’t force your eating habits on others to hurt their conscience. The new covenant omits the cultural laws that were meant purely for the Jewish people to maintain as part of their covenant with God. We have our own covenant contract with God.

Anything we see in the Old Testament must be seen through the lens of the New Testament and the New Covenant. The rule of thumb is to lean to mercy and love while still being courageous to declare the distinctions of sin.

Matthew 22:37-40 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

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