For religious people [Spirituality & Religion]

@Mondayschild I have several

@offingg how is it narrow minded ?
the only reason I asked was because someone told me that my winter gear was unnatural and I should buy oiled wool clothing.

@Tuscan Some people just don't think. We have a new priest whom said according to cannon church rules, all plants in church should be living. We pointed out to him that flowers cut are no longer living. His response was that they are of a living thing unlike artificial flowers. However the artificial flowers we have are silk which is of a living thing. He's back to thinking about more important church needs now.

Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs no matter how inconsistent or illogical they appear to others, it only becomes a problem if they expect everyone else to agree with them.

@Tuscan You are right.

By we I represent Christians who actually read the Bible in context to its time and think and look at the big picture.

A lot of us see scripture in a post or something and accept it as truth without reading it for ourselves and doing the homework.

@SW-User but excluding Amish communities who are undoubtedly christian and read the bible but do not use nylon, polyester etc. I can understand that some religions have specific rules such as Judaism which specify certain materials, I have no problem with christians such as yourself who consider things logically. I am simply trying to get an insight into the thinking of those who do consider modern materials "ungodly". If indeed that is their objection to them.

I would say that God taught this:

Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand. What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.”
Matthew 15:10‭-‬11 NIV


Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
Proverbs 4:23 NIV

You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings. My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.
Psalm 51:16‭-‬17 NIV


It's really not about the motions we go through... Good cares about the heart.
Christians recognize that God made a law for the Jews. There are a total of about 674 regulations that every Jew was responsible for, including the bit about non-natural materials.

This was impossible. We are not capable of following this law. Jesus came as a man to fulfill the law for us and take our sin -past, present, future- and die for us.

Jesus rose again and now lives in us as believers.
He who fulfilled the law and is good enough for God lives in us. We do not need to fulfill every last obligation of the law because Jesus already did.

So my advice to the Jews and Amish would be to accept that Jesus already did the hard work and that they are free to pursue a life of loving and praising God for all he has done.