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Revisiting Ancient Dietary Laws
The limitations of virtually all dietary forms
Date: 11/12/2023 3:50:47 AM ( 12 mon ) ... viewed 1078 times November 11, 2023 -
"Most stories of Jesus interacting with the Pharisees—the religious leaders in his day—reveal, not surprisingly, a people determined to stay within the rules. In fact, part of rabbinic tradition was 'building a fence around the law' so that you could never get close enough to break the actual law. If the law was 'don’t boil a (young goat) in its mother’s milk' (Exodus 23:19), the fence might be 'never eat meat and cheese together.' The goal of putting up fences was to make sure you could never get close enough to breaking the law to actually violate it. In Stage 2, keeping these sorts of boundaries is of the highest importance. Jesus was crucified, in part, because he was so committed to questioning the boundaries."[1]*
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Utterly (no pun intended) amazing to now see how this "law" in Exodus apparently was implemented by way of "a fence around the law" that not only preserved what might be considered as the spirit of that law but subsequently created an enormous, extra heavy-duty additional dietary restriction around it that raises a legitimate question as to how that restriction actually is needed when, in this instance, simply not boiling "a young goat in its mother’s milk" should fulfill the law. If I were to have questioned this in the territories of 'the Pharisees" about 2,000 years ago would I have been crucified too? .........
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Notes:
[1] http://www.storyflight.com/four-phases-of-spiritual-development-part-i
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Keywords:
diet, nutrition, dietary rules, dietary laws, boil a kid in its mother’s milk, You must not cook a young goat in its mother's milk
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