Suppose a man marries a woman,
but after sleeping with her, he turns against her
and publicly accuses her of shameful conduct, saying,
“When I married this woman, I discovered she was not a virgin.”
[...] The men of the town must stone her to death.

Deuteronomy 22:13-21
(NLT)
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So, I finished the five Books of Moses. While Genesis and the beginning of Exodus were stimulating, by the time I got through all the rules and proper ways to sacrifice sheep I was about ready to put the Bible down. I can see why so few people have actually read the thing in its entirety, or at least why they skrrrrt 🏎 right up to Jesus.

It was tough to find any applicable wisdom for today’s world from much of these chapters, but it did make me wonder why if we throw out 95% of the rules God supposedly laid out for us while we choose to hold onto others, particularly in the realm of sexuality, which still seems to be stigmatized by the church.

Do you still put women apart for seven days because her “issue in her flesh be blood”?

Do you think if your son doesn’t listen to his parents he should be stoned to death?

Do you think if a priest’s daughter defiles herself with promiscuity she should be burned alive?

Do you believe a crippled man or a hunchback or a dwarf has no right to approach the altar of the God because he has a defect?

No? Then why do you hold on to guilt around sexual stigmas tied to the Bible by the church?

Some of these rules might get God canceled on Twitter. So who arbitrarily picks which ones stay and which ones go? I must’ve missed the voting ballot.

If, say, two consenting adults wish to open their marriage to include others, should this be condemned under the banner of “adultery”? Meanwhile, the morals regarding slave ownership and rules for stoning others sandwich this one?

If whoever has the answer to these questions could please dial in to the show and explain it to us, “That’d be greattt.”

[Please enjoy this complimentary ad for ChristianSwingers.com while your party is reached.]

Maybe the lesson here is that change is the only constant, and no one has the authority to choose which rules are relevant today and which rules are as ancient as the times they were created.

(Except that one about putting women to death if you find out they weren’t virgins. Obviously some things should never change 😉)