I don't write much here often. I usually have moments of lucidity while at work or something, and my thoughts seem important enough to write down later, but... then you sit down and... meh.
I read an article about Ireland abandoning religion, and in the comments were all manner of scorn and mockery for the believers. It burdened me, like I've said before, but afterwards I listened to proverbs while I worked. In the comments the people (I'm guessing dumb teenagers and college kids) were arguing about their own intellects and posting IQ's and all manner of downright foolish ass-hat-ery. While listening to proverbs I heard so many words about that exact type of fool. They were, down to the last bit, as foolish as the worst fool in proverbs. Right down to being puffed up in their foolishness. It's not their facts that are foolish, it's their behavior. Their facts are just firebrands they shoot recklessly from their mouths. It was a strange encouragement that the Bible had these people so pinned down: people who would deem themselves the pinnacle of evolution, and so sophisticated, thousands of years after. I admit it is a primitive book, but an apple is primitive compared to a hot pocket.
I live in a camper, which is something I've always wanted to do. I work as an apprentice electrician which makes me lots of money, but feels like a means to an end. I am terrified of heights and all these rich Americans around here love vaulted ceilings. I'd love to master it, and get licensed and do it for a living while paid ministry is not an option. It just seems like a hard task is before me. The present orders are "go, apply yourself with all your might, see what happens." I thoroughly love being able to listen to the Bible on audio while I work. That is how most of my thoughts and meditations occur these days.
One of my possibly lucid thoughts was about the laws of holiness in the Law of Moses. I heard Doug Wilson tell a bunch of loudmouth fools (seriously, proverbs talks about them all in detail) that those laws which are moral remain and holiness laws are nailed to the cross. (says "book of ordinances" I think, and that is in Colossians I think). Now, I don't know about that exactly. Could be, but my thought was this:
If Christ's death brought salvation to the Foreigners (Gentiles) and tore down the dividing curtain, and made the riff raff and rabble on the streets holy (This stuff is all over the New Testament, seriously, The Gospels, Acts, the Epistles, everywhere) then does it follow that a law which keeps the ancient Israelites holy from other nations (Example: Leviticus 19:27 prohibits a practice other nations did, Jeremiah 9:26) would be obsolete, inasmuch as now the other nations are made holy? "What God has made holy do not call common" He says to Peter. Of course the moral commands remain: you shall not burn your children to other gods. And marking your head for the dead is still a no no if you should have nothing to do with the dead. But how about mixing fabric in a coat, or mixing seed in a field? If the law was to separate Israel from other nations, then it would not remain if Christ tore the veil between Israel and the nations.
Anyway, I don't have command over the scripture enough to follow through and check this kind of thought. At present it seems conceivable that the only laws which changed were those which Christ's action on the cross directly influenced. Sacrifices and Holiness codes. In any case, as a gentile I don't have to fret too much. It must be tough for Messianic Jews though.
