Percy-L: Literary, Religious, Scientific, and Philosophical Discussion of Walker Percy

[Tim Cole <tcole AT adobe.com>]

Title: Re: [percy-l] West Wing, Works of the Law

> None of what he said really made sense following the incarnation. Those were all proscriptions of the LAW that were done away with, or rather fulfilled and transformed... but natural law is fixed, like gravity. Moreover, the NT is rife with references to homosexuality as an "abomination".  Romans, 1 Timothy, 1 Corinthians... 
There’s an interesting distinction between moral and ceremonial law as described in Paul’s writings that makes for thought provoking reading. James Akin has a popularized version here:  <http://www.cin.org/users/james/files/work-law.htm>
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I don’t see anything in the NT that indicates that the moral prescriptions and proscriptions in the OT are done away with. However, the ‘Works of the Law,’ the works that constituted the distinctive ceremonial markers for the Jews as followers of YHWH were done away with as requirements for gentiles...or so the thinking goes.

It’s also the case that the Torah mixes the moral and ceremonial all the time...they’re not cleanly divided and organized in a nice, tidy, Western way...the Torah veers from one type of command to the other in a decidedly Eastern way.
> But again... its the whole creation and salvation narrative that makes the case for how disordered homosexuality is, not just isolated biblical sound bites. 
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The West Wing episode was well done...but it knocks down a straw man.



Tim