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Please don’t misunderstand me, the rules are the bare minimum of our obligations. If we don’t obey them, we aren’t even in the ballpark.

Are the rules suggestions or are they expected to be followed? Why deliver a rule if it wasn’t expected to be followed, especially when some of those rules come with consequences for not being followed? The Father dwells outside the rules and...

Wait, what?

There is no minimum or maximum, we just need to apply what applies. I don’t imagine that any of us are in a situation where this needs to be followed. I try to see the reason for the rules and and work within His desires. Yeshuah said that he...

Thank you for refocusing this, I will rewrite it to reflect my beliefs. 100% so far. It was never intended to be completely exhaustive nor definitive on all matters. It was written to show principles and guidelines for us to learn from, but it...

Proverbs 28:4 Those who forsake instruction praise the wicked, but those who heed it resist them. Genesis 15:16 After four generations your descendants will return here to this land, for the sins of the Amorites do not yet warrant their...

Cut them a little slack, man. They are like a public defender for an accused bank robber who forgot to wear a mask, was caught on camera, cut himself and bled at the scene and ran into the responding officer while trying to make his escape… I...

I have often been amazed at how ignorant these "well educated scholars" are when it comes to issues of marriage/patriarchy/polygamy in the Bible. Andreas Kostenberger's book was shockingly weak on the topic. "God, Marriage, and Family...

I think Witte's work is inadvertently helpful to our cause. He shows that the case for monogamy over polygyny really is a Greco Roman cultural argument, not a Biblical/Christian one.

There is no minimum or maximum, we just need to apply what applies. I don’t imagine that any of us are in a situation where this needs to be followed. I try to see the reason for the rules and and work within His desires. Yeshuah said that he...

So then levirate is the minimum, not the maximum? It could be applied more broadly without violating the minimum? In your approach, do you end or begin with the rules?

The problem is that one simple set of instructions has been sectioned off and labeled Levarite Marriage. You won’t find Yah making it that distinct. We have made it a big deal because of the fact that He didn’t say that the instruction is off the...

Yes, the key word there is also. I would say what I often say Legalism is easy. Very few doctrines are not clearly defined, I can’t think of any. It’s just that most of the reason that people disagree on doctrine is a failure to take all of...

Thank you for refocusing this, I will rewrite it to reflect my beliefs. 100% so far. It was never intended to be completely exhaustive nor definitive on all matters. It was written to show principles and guidelines for us to learn from, but it...