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For Abrahamic Religions
- Thread starter Ubon
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Acceptable to who?
Ubon
Member
To the chosen Religion one chooses to follow.
Sure, why not. Pretty much everyone does it.
It depends on the circumstance. For Christians, we ignore most of the ritual, economic/political and dietary laws of the Mosaic Law because the Book of Acts and several of St. Paul's Epistles tell us to (but if you're a Jewish Christian you should still obey the Mosaic Law IIRC). For the most part, however, no, we don't get to "pick and choose".
If cherry picking doesn't get the job done, a bit of retranslation usually will.
Tom
Isn't the answer 'depends on the religion' then?
I don't see them all thinking of this in the same way.
Skwim
Veteran Member
I agree with that.
Tumah
Veteran Member
Nope.
Who can stop you?
Riders
Well-Known Member
Unless you go to a church like The 7th Day Adventists or the Messianic churches which go by the old laws for sabbath and other rituals.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
I believe that largely depends on how one views the scriptures themselves. If one believes they are 100% divinely inspired and inerrant, and another doesn't believe as such, then they're likely to differ significantly in how close they may believe and follow what's written.
As others pointed out, that is not only widespread but easily unavoidable.
Good follow-up questions would be "Why do many people speak of scripture as if it were authoritative?" and "How best to deal with scriptures?"
Cherry-picking from scriptures could only be less than advisable if we had reason to assume that the scriptures somehow have better judgement than the people, which I don't think we do.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
And this is why I like the Dalai Lama's saying that if science goes against a Buddhist scripture, go with science because the scriptures were written by those who knew far less than we now know.
Same here, @metis
I would go beyond that, come to think of it.
It would be sad if static words kept being the absolute authority and ultimate doctrinary reference for whole communities century after century, even as everything else changes, adapts and often offers new possibilities and new demands around the doctrine that uses those words.
I would go beyond that, come to think of it.
It would be sad if static words kept being the absolute authority and ultimate doctrinary reference for whole communities century after century, even as everything else changes, adapts and often offers new possibilities and new demands around the doctrine that uses those words.
Ubon
Member
Buddha said follow only that which makes sense to you on your journey.
Abrahamic religions do not say that.