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Interesting experiment, sounds like the participants learned a great deal. Just a bit of concern: the article made the comment that "its [the laws] purpose was to show saved people how to live a saved life." In the New Testament the purpose of the law is explained: it was to show us our NEED for salvation--the fact that we cannot live a sinless life, Rom 5:20, to show us what sin is, Rom 7:7, and bring us to Christ, Gal 3:24. The Law was our schoolmaster to bring us to salvation, but now under grace we are Sons (or Daughters) and we do what pleases the Father because we love Him, not out of duty or obligation to a Law. The law may help us to better understand what pleases the Father, but its "purpose" is not to show a saved person how to live. This may seem like a bone I am picking at... but this sort of "truth" that is not based on scripture can cause a deception that leads to defeated christian living. A challenge for us all to know and speak only the Truth of God's precious Word.
esla
Posted: July 31, 2008 9:31 AM
This is so interesting. There is no life like the Christian life. I love them both... the christian life and the levitical project.
Sherri
Posted: July 30, 2008 7:58 PM
I thought this article, and the whole experiment, very interesting indeed. Granted, nobody followed any sort of authority for interpretation (at least a basic modern Jewish standard would have been far more realistic), but even so it's more than most believers attempt. However, I do take exception to the comment above that "if you didn't follow it all, you didn't follow it at all." If I gave my children instructions and they discovered that under the circumstances only half of them were possible, I would be more pleased with their best efforts to accomplish what they could than if they simply gave up and said oh well, if we can't do all of it why do any of it? Besides, there is a difference between picking and choosing what we're willing to keep and what we're able to keep. Animal sacrifice is only lawfully done by priests in the Temple, which we don't have. Stoning adulterers assumes the law of the Lord is also the law of the land. Ancient Israel in exile couldn't do those either.
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