I need to start this thread here. Although there is a similar thread about 'the Poor' in Bible Ethics I've just realised that I cannot post in that section. My posts left there are a mistake.
Apart from the sacrificial and ceremonial laws of the OT, clearly redacted by Jesus (Matthew 9:13) he was insistent that all other laws should be upheld (Matthew 5:17). All the OT laws were written because they all helped to build a strong, successful, invincible, healthy people, and whereas previous nations had fallen because they didn't bother (Lev 20:22-24) the Israelites were clearly shown the way to success. (Exodus 18:20). These laws all produced a people that would survive and flourish.
The only reason that the Baptist and Jesus held against the Temple ceremonies and sacrificial laws is because they had descended in to total corruption, greed and hypocrisy and so sadly were of no value any more.
Every care was taken to avoid illness, accident, loss, defeat or insecurity whatsoever. There is a reason for every single (unredacted) law within these parameters. Whether the risk was a high roof that could be fallen from, a food that could have collected bacteria or sickness or lack of care for the less able leading to sickness or death, there were laws to protect from these losses.
I wanted to focus upon the Poor Laws here. If I show a single law maybe we could discuss how it could work today? If I could feature just one law per post and slowly build upon these, maybe that could work to make things more interesting? Here we go:-
Leviticus {19:9} And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.
How delightful is that! So there were disabled, dysfunctional folks back then who did not fit in to a community with regular trade or job, who needed to subsist as best they could, and the laws of Moses provided for these people.
Today, commerce, industry, travel, agriculture and retail chucks away condemned products and goods all the time and I know that retail tends to have a rule to smash completely everything that is thrown out or to soil foods that are discarded. The old laws would not have tolerated that.
Commerce, industry etc should adapt the above rule to fit with their environs, maybe?
This the first of many poor laws!
Apart from the sacrificial and ceremonial laws of the OT, clearly redacted by Jesus (Matthew 9:13) he was insistent that all other laws should be upheld (Matthew 5:17). All the OT laws were written because they all helped to build a strong, successful, invincible, healthy people, and whereas previous nations had fallen because they didn't bother (Lev 20:22-24) the Israelites were clearly shown the way to success. (Exodus 18:20). These laws all produced a people that would survive and flourish.
The only reason that the Baptist and Jesus held against the Temple ceremonies and sacrificial laws is because they had descended in to total corruption, greed and hypocrisy and so sadly were of no value any more.
Every care was taken to avoid illness, accident, loss, defeat or insecurity whatsoever. There is a reason for every single (unredacted) law within these parameters. Whether the risk was a high roof that could be fallen from, a food that could have collected bacteria or sickness or lack of care for the less able leading to sickness or death, there were laws to protect from these losses.
I wanted to focus upon the Poor Laws here. If I show a single law maybe we could discuss how it could work today? If I could feature just one law per post and slowly build upon these, maybe that could work to make things more interesting? Here we go:-
Leviticus {19:9} And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.
How delightful is that! So there were disabled, dysfunctional folks back then who did not fit in to a community with regular trade or job, who needed to subsist as best they could, and the laws of Moses provided for these people.
Today, commerce, industry, travel, agriculture and retail chucks away condemned products and goods all the time and I know that retail tends to have a rule to smash completely everything that is thrown out or to soil foods that are discarded. The old laws would not have tolerated that.
Commerce, industry etc should adapt the above rule to fit with their environs, maybe?
This the first of many poor laws!
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