jwright82
Puritan Board Post-Graduate
You can pick your way through the ceremonial law looking for particular laws that will materially be beneficial for your health, or might be materially beneficial for your health, or you can also try to prove that some laws you wish to observe are good for your health e.g. you can dispute with people whether pork is ever good for your health or always bad.
But is this keeping God's ceremonial holiness law or just raiding it for health tips which may or may not be there, some of which can be deduced by science or common sense?
The purpose for which these laws was given was to teach an under age church about holiness, because only a small number of these laws also impinge on health.
How much of Leviticus 15 is the Lord wanting New Covenant Israelites to follow for the sake of their health?
Nicley put Richard! I have had many debates with Fundamentalists over the meaning of our body being "The Lord's temple" and health. They say you shouldn't do anything that you know is unhealthy, to which I reply that going outside and breathing is knowingly unhealthy (I mean smog here) would you stop doing that? I think the whole cerimonial law for health reasons distorts the whole picture. It is like saying that God must have a good reason to give a law, in this case these laws are healthy. This somehow gets God off the hook legaly and justifies His legal opinions, well I say hogwash! If God layed down a law that we must stand on our heads once a day for 2 minutes than that is His divine to do so, He needs no "good reasons" (which are always only good in our eyes, autonomy) to make demands on us, only His divine right.