Don't Grab a Man by His Law

Deut 25:11-12

“When men fight with one another and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts, then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity.
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A verse like this is not often brought up by Christians, for fear it will only bring scoffing.  Certain questions arise such as, "What if it's a woman who is not the wife? Perhaps a sister, a friend, a mother, a daughter, or just a passer by?  What if it's not a female at all, but a man who intervenes and does this?"

There is no specific law for that.  This is simply, what it was.  I imagine this very situation came up, and so this law was created to set precedent for future matters, according to the law.  There was a time when this didn't exist, but as much of the law as time went on issues were taken to Moses.  He judged between the people and matters were written down, and the legal response for such things were put in place.  This was the crime, and the punishment. "This is what happened Moses,  What should we do, Moses?"  This is the way I understand it.

It's definitely one of the "stranger" miscellaneous laws in the OT, but one among many we must keep if we are to teach the keeping all of it. The law gives no luxury of choosing between "strange" and difficult laws, and those that are not.

If anyone chooses to keep the whole Jewish law as recorded in TORAH, the means by which they establish righteousness, either in this life or the next... then the entire law must be kept.  There is no choosing between what ones we like, and what ones we don't like. So if, "Because the TORAH says so" is the reason we say that we choose to abstain from pork products, then we cannot ignore any other part just because it suits us.  If this situation arises as described in Deut 25:11-12, they cannot be ignored.

Sin does exist, but how so?  What is it, and how do we avoid it?  How do we know what sin is? Doesn't the law tell us what sin is?  What is the difference between this law, and the ten commandments?  Is there a difference?

Romans 8:1, which we all universally love as one of the greatest Christian promises in the Bible, says, "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus".  But, we must see that it says so entirely based on the understanding that we are set FREE FROM THE LAW (Romans 7:1-6).  Yes, immediately following in Romans 8:2-4 we are told, "For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit."

It's a bold thing that God has done, by giving us His Spirit in that we can walk in a way that pleases Him, apart from the law.  Without the law, how can we know that we walk in integrity? How can we know what one man does is right and what another man does is wrong?  It was a bold move, but the only means by which we are saved.  Those are just my thoughts for now. It doesn't feel like a complete thought for a blog... but there it is.