How Many Times Have I Told You...

How many times does God have to tell us something before it becomes binding in our beliefs and actions?

The correct answer is once.

Many people read the Bible with the mind set of "show me in the New Testament where it says this or that".

This type of Biblical interpretation is flawed because it fails to take into mind that God may have commanded something in the Old Testament and UNLESS He has annulled it in the New it is still binding.

So...something NOT being mentioned in the New Testament may actually be a case for it and not against it.

For those of you who get your ethical code from a "New Testament only" view I would like to ask you a question.

Is it wrong to have sex with animals?

And surely you will say "of course it is wrong"!!!

But the New Testament NOWHERE speaks specifically about beastiality.
It speaks about sexual immorality generally and when it gets into specifics it mentions fornication, adultery, homosexuality, but it doesn't speak about beastiality.

But God has said that beastiality is an ABOMINATION in the Old Testament...and He hasn't stated otherwise in the New...therefore it is still true and binding today!!