They might . . . but they would run into some problems. Whereas the dietary laws are specifically repealed in the Christian Scriptures, the tendency in Jesus' teachings is to extend teachings like this one, rather than to curtail them.
I use proofs from the Jewish Scripture because I'm sick of conservative Christians pulling some bizarre thing out of Jewish scripture to justify their hatred/prejudice/cruelty whatever, and then seeing liberal Christians cite the Christian Scriptures to counter it. That paradigm recapitulates the ancient Anti-Judaic lie that Judaism is a cruel and merciless religion. Thus I use the Christian scriptures only to counter specifically Christian hypocrisy. It all works out well, since Jesus spends lots of time citin Leviticus and Deuteronomy anyway.
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Date: 2005-04-16 12:54 pm (UTC)Whereas the dietary laws are specifically repealed in the Christian Scriptures, the tendency in Jesus' teachings is to extend teachings like this one, rather than to curtail them.
I use proofs from the Jewish Scripture because I'm sick of conservative Christians pulling some bizarre thing out of Jewish scripture to justify their hatred/prejudice/cruelty whatever, and then seeing liberal Christians cite the Christian Scriptures to counter it. That paradigm recapitulates the ancient Anti-Judaic lie that Judaism is a cruel and merciless religion. Thus I use the Christian scriptures only to counter specifically Christian hypocrisy. It all works out well, since Jesus spends lots of time citin Leviticus and Deuteronomy anyway.