Prescription

There is a great deal that could be commented on with regard to the sexual laws found in the Torah, but though we agree with them in the main as to prohibitions, something has changed, and we do not carry out the punishments indicated for their infraction. The Muslims, on the other hand, would like to do this, and have largely incorporated these punishments into sharia law.

Why do we agree with the sexual laws of the Old Testament when we reject many of the formal injunctions, positive and negative, that are written there on the basis of our being under the New Covenant?

It seems to me that though ‘no jot or tittle shall be removed from the Law until its purpose is achieved’ as Christ clearly teaches, the Law remains in force as a witness against us, telling us what is wrong, but not giving us the power to do what is right: that is reserved to Christ alone, and that is what makes the difference for us, as holy apostle Paul writes.

The Law is the prescription for our sicknesses, but do we take it? or do we explain away our sicknesses as 'nothing serious' or just 'a stage we're passing through' while we look the other way as our society and world crumble?

Though the Torah, the Law, is of divine origin, that says nothing more than that it is of Reason, of the Divine Logos, who appears in the form of Man to take upon Himself not only to manifest what the Law fulfilled looks like, but to bear the consequences of our not following it as well. He is the Sacrifice which takes our sins away and cancels the debt that we go from birth to death owing.

And owing to what or to whom?
Is it not to Reason itself, which again, is the only Divine Nature we know, revealed in Jesus Christ, at once the Victim and the Victor in all our struggles?