Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: tblake@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Tom Blake) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: the Sabbath Message-ID: Date: 2 Jun 91 05:27:23 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: SUNY Binghamton Lines: 27 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , mejicovs@eniac.seas.upenn.edu writes: |> (Thomas Blake, That's Me!) wrote: |>>It is this picking and choosing among the laws which so bothers me. |>>"You must obey *this* law!" "I need not obey this other law!" In this |>>way, we strain out gnats, and swallow camels! (Never let it be said |>>Jesus didn't have a sense of humor.) |> |>What are you talking about? I don't know of any laws that it is |>possible to follow today that aren't taught and followed by Orthodox Jews |>(and some of the other sects too!). I'm afraid you have missed my point entirely. I have great respect for the "Pennsylvania Dutch" for instance. They make a concientious effort to obey even the least of the law's commands. The question is about you yourself, and me myself. I suspect that there are a number of laws which you disregard. If you choose to disregard certain laws as not being applicable to you, then I don't see how you have any right to hold another accountable for disregarding the same, (or other) laws. This other is no more of a sinner than you are. You trust that your G__ will not hold you accountable for those laws you have chosen to ignore, or those laws which you interpret differently from the Orthodox members of your faith. I hold to that same trust. Tom Blake SUNY-Binghamton