Stuffing

Biblical rules

I watched the talk by AJ Jacobs about his "Year of Living Biblically"
If you are going to watch it, watch it now so I don't ruin the ending for you!
He spends a year trying to follow all the rules in the Bible.
He concludes that is is not possible to keep all the rules in the Bible.
He's quite a personable guy and I really enjoyed the talk. I agree with him that it is impossible to keep all the rules in the Bible.
However, where he goes after this is where we part in agreement.
He concludes after this that because you can't keep all the rules in the Bible, you should "pick and choose" which ones are applicable and good to keep.
I disagree which being able to pick and choose what rules to keep. I think the fact that it is impossible to keep all the rules in the Bible is designed to show us that we need God. No matter how good or kind we are, we can't ever be perfect without God's help. The rules point us to God. That we need a saviour to take us to the level that God sees us through instead of having God look at us with the rules (where we will obviously fail). Our success depends only on the blood that Jesus shed. It's not about us, it's about Him.

posted by Aphra @ 10/15/2011 08:08:00 PM