My critique comes from the fact that what was billed as a family-friendly alternative to what the “world” has to offer was just as bad when viewed through the lens of Scripture.
Through the lens of Scripture, he should be put to death for wearing mixed fabrics. Also, I bet he owns a coat, but not a sword, when Jesus said to sell the coat and buy a sword with the money. We're all only human, there's gonna be leniencies and transgressions against a perfect following of scripture. It's all about which ones we're willing to tolerate.
This is one of the most misquoted and miscontextualised elements from the Bible.
Nowhere in the bible is it said that people should be put to death for wearing mixed fabrics.
People misunderstand almost EVERYTHING about the rules laid out in Leviticus.
The passage you're referring to from Leviticus 19 is part of a broader set of guides laid out to maintain cleanliness in the camp. The actual verse reads,
"Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee"
These were to prevent blights, infections, rashes, diseases, etc., lest they bring blemish to the camp. But those particular rules were not ones that demanded death (the ones that did were made explicit).
This was because during the exodus the Children of Israel requested a physical presence of Yehweh guide them to the promised land. God agreed and had a small piece of His physical Glory appear as a cloud to guide them, and later resided in the Ark of the Covenant (which is why no one, even those who were sinless, could touch it).
To keep the camp clean, Leviticus details what the priests and the camp were to do to avoid incurring sin or blemish, because sin cannot abide in God's presence, and will be extinguished. This happens a couple of times during God's tenure within the camp at the Tabernacle. This is why the priests had explicit instructions on how to perform sin offerings if sin did occur in the camp.
Mixed fabrics and certain seafoods were prohibited to avoid things like rashes and digestive issues. Just like there were guides on where to defecate -- and it had to be OUTSIDE the camp, same with when women were on their period, since blood is sacred and is used as a conduit for spiritual substance.
Hitherto, God's rules were to protect the camp from blemish and sin to AVOID people being extinguished in his presence.
Post-factum, Jesus' death on the cross meant that ALL sins could be extinguished through his blood (viz., the conduit of spiritual matter from this realm to the next) without having to abide by strict rules or having the Levites perform sin offerings using the blood of unblemished animals as the conduit.
TL;DR: Nowhere in the Bible was it mandated to be killed for wearing mixed fabrics. The rules in Leviticus (apart from the Ten Commandments) were to keep the camp as unblemished as possible due to God's Glory residing in the camp at the time.
Through the lens of Scripture, he should be put to death for wearing mixed fabrics. Also, I bet he owns a coat, but not a sword, when Jesus said to sell the coat and buy a sword with the money. We're all only human, there's gonna be leniencies and transgressions against a perfect following of scripture. It's all about which ones we're willing to tolerate.
This is one of the most misquoted and miscontextualised elements from the Bible.
Nowhere in the bible is it said that people should be put to death for wearing mixed fabrics.
People misunderstand almost EVERYTHING about the rules laid out in Leviticus.
The passage you're referring to from Leviticus 19 is part of a broader set of guides laid out to maintain cleanliness in the camp. The actual verse reads,
"Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee"
These were to prevent blights, infections, rashes, diseases, etc., lest they bring blemish to the camp. But those particular rules were not ones that demanded death (the ones that did were made explicit).
This was because during the exodus the Children of Israel requested a physical presence of Yehweh guide them to the promised land. God agreed and had a small piece of His physical Glory appear as a cloud to guide them, and later resided in the Ark of the Covenant (which is why no one, even those who were sinless, could touch it).
To keep the camp clean, Leviticus details what the priests and the camp were to do to avoid incurring sin or blemish, because sin cannot abide in God's presence, and will be extinguished. This happens a couple of times during God's tenure within the camp at the Tabernacle. This is why the priests had explicit instructions on how to perform sin offerings if sin did occur in the camp.
Mixed fabrics and certain seafoods were prohibited to avoid things like rashes and digestive issues. Just like there were guides on where to defecate -- and it had to be OUTSIDE the camp, same with when women were on their period, since blood is sacred and is used as a conduit for spiritual substance.
Hitherto, God's rules were to protect the camp from blemish and sin to AVOID people being extinguished in his presence.
Post-factum, Jesus' death on the cross meant that ALL sins could be extinguished through his blood (viz., the conduit of spiritual matter from this realm to the next) without having to abide by strict rules or having the Levites perform sin offerings using the blood of unblemished animals as the conduit.
TL;DR: Nowhere in the Bible was it mandated to be killed for wearing mixed fabrics. The rules in Leviticus (apart from the Ten Commandments) were to keep the camp as unblemished as possible due to God's Glory residing in the camp at the time.