Queer Lounge at Sundance 2007 Panel on Faith Part 2

Sundance at Sundance 2007 Panel on Faith & Film Part 2

Panel members:
Director:Dan Karslake, Rev Mel White, Rabbi Steve Greenberg (For the Bible Tells Me So); Director Robert Cary and Judith Light (Save Me), Director Sandi Dubowski (Trembling Before G-D

Video by: Luis Pedron and Sherwin Morada of Fanclubx.com

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[mrsgoatlady77]

r u saying that the NT says we can eat unkosher food??? if the real Messiah came to do away w/ Torah, then Deut 13 & 18 are a lie. they both say a true Prophet MUST uphold Torah, or he is false.

[helenabuckingham]

Is there more to this discussion somewhere?

[jimmy198017]

I'm not sure if i agree with everything in the film, because i have't seen it yet, but i think it's great that you guys have really dug into this on a theological basis. you're right that people just take what they traditionally have heard and go with that. But the issue affects to many people to make such quick judgements.

[CrisBrighton]

One more point: a few laws are found in both codes, but again, the law governing homosexuality is not.

[CrisBrighton]

There is one exception to this: acts that are toevah "before the Lord" are still in force. But this doesn't apply to the Levitical verses on homosexuality. Nothing that could be translated as "before the Lord" appears in either of them.

[CrisBrighton]

The dividing line isn't topical, with sexual laws in force but food laws done away. Rather, it's the laws by which the Jews were set apart that were done away. Paul says the same thing in the New Testament by calling homosexuality "akatharsia," or unclean. Keeping one law against uncleanness and discarding the others is selective reading. (continued)

[CrisBrighton]

The dividing line isn't topical, with sexual laws in force but food laws done away. Rather, it's the laws by which the Jews were set apart that were done away. Paul says the same thing in the New Testament by calling homosexuality "akatharsia," or unclean. Keeping one law against uncleanness and discarding the others is selective reading. (continued)

[CrisBrighton]

erikwait, you're leaving out something important. It's true that the moral laws are in force while the laws governing uncleanness are not. Anything that the Old Testament calls "toevah" - unclean, or abomination in many versions of the Bible - is part of that law that has been done away by Christ's death on the cross. The Bible specifically refers to homosexuality as toevah, along with eating shellfish, wearing clothes of mixed fiber, and having sex with a menstruating woman. (continued)

[Progo35]

I need to see this film to see if it adresses the NT on homosexuality, as it isn't in these previous but is an important thing to address

[Sammy0414]

Do you keep Kosher laws. I think not