Re: Women Wearing Pants
The idea of "abominations" being a certain type of sin is foreign to the Bible. Abomination simply means "detestable" or "ceremonially unclean". Writers of the NT never made the claim that "abomination" had a special meaning or classification.
The primary issue at the Council of Jerusalem centered around the obligations of gentile believers be circumcised and to obey the Law of Moses. The decision made was no, circumcision is not required and no, believers are not required to obey the law of Moses.
We have no obligations to the law of Moses. The law served several purposes and all of them have been fulfilled.
All the rules in the law of Moses were moral rules. None of them are morally binding today.
Rape is a sin today. But not because it is spelled out in the law of Moses. Theft and lying are a sin today, but not because they are mentioned as such by Moses.
Some of the law has been replaced and the opposite has been taught instead.
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy" has been replaced by "love your enemies"
"Eye for an eye" has been replaced by "do not resist an evil person"
"Do not break your oath" is replaced by "do not swear an oath at all"
The new covenant is better than the old one.
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