- Joined
- Dec 17, 2022
It seems that Nick is trying to find a way for God to fit his lifestyle. A more sincere effort to follow God would have it the other way around.LARPing jewish is a thing among certain evangelical christians. The worst of them eliminate christian holidays as un-biblical events. Easter is wrong because your supposed to be celebrating passover. Christmas is wrong because there is no religious reason to celebrate a birthday. And church is generally wrong too because its not jewish. But celebrating or transforming jewish things that these people don't really understand to their own purposes is great.
The worst of them have ideas about magic "jewish blood" and are often obsessed with creating questionable ancestries to prove their "bloodline". Their ideas tend toward the people "of the blood" being natural rulers over the rest of humanity after the second coming. And of course their "blood" makes them superior within their little religious group as well.
These people are generally weird and awful and don't really understand anything about either religion at all. Nick would fit right in with the christian jewish LARP community. And I'm sure all seems so much "real" to him that than "fake" christianity that the churches do.
Though the Biblical Law can inform culture, it is a moral code first and foremost. People who supplant this moral code with a culture miss the point of why Jesus had a problem with the Pharisees who were preaching the jewish culture of the time over God's Law. It's not about becoming jewish, it's about obedience to God. Failure to make this distinction will only result in condemnation. People can/will hold to their respective cultures, but what a professing Christian does when there is a conflict between the Law and their culture will reveal where their values/beliefs truly lie.
That said, if all one is looking for is a moral framework for society and don't care much for the idea of God then moral solidarity becomes the goal. Either way, heretics in terms of God's Law or society's laws tend not to fare well and are often convinced of their own superiority, sometimes via a martyr complex (persecution = validation).
Also, God's Law states that there was nothing inherently special about the Hebrew people and the fact that the Lord would go on to punish them throughout the ages (even in their own texts) is further proof of this. The Biblical feasts are reminders of God's goodness/provision/power and not about how "special" the Hebrews were. The feasts are, in summation; remember the Lord and what He has done. I'll stop here.
That said, if all one is looking for is a moral framework for society and don't care much for the idea of God then moral solidarity becomes the goal. Either way, heretics in terms of God's Law or society's laws tend not to fare well and are often convinced of their own superiority, sometimes via a martyr complex (persecution = validation).
Also, God's Law states that there was nothing inherently special about the Hebrew people and the fact that the Lord would go on to punish them throughout the ages (even in their own texts) is further proof of this. The Biblical feasts are reminders of God's goodness/provision/power and not about how "special" the Hebrews were. The feasts are, in summation; remember the Lord and what He has done. I'll stop here.