Man it'll be a while before I get to the PC, so I'll take a whack at it from the phone again.

Firstly, I will state that I haven't read the bible cover to cover, but that doesn't mean I've had no exposure to religion, the bible, etc. So, I have the right frame of mind when reading the bible.
That's good then, because there are people who read it for the sole purpose to find contradictions and use rebuttles. Someday I'd like to learn more about muslims, but not for the purpose of argument, but to see what makes them different in their beliefs, and try to understand Islamic beliefs.
The reason I brought up Leviticus in the first place is that Ohio stated he believed and followed every word of the bible. So, I just wanted to point out that there are pieces of the bible that didn't seem to be followed in modern day.Now, you two both state that Leviticus is for Israel only. I ask why? Why only Israel? Why not the rest of God's followers? Different rules? Isn't that discrimination? I would think we all live by a standard set of rules in order to be judged by him in a fair manner.
Ohio elaborated tis already, and ill just say that it WAS for Isreal, and only Isreal because they were his chosedn covenant people. He couldn't uphold the same standards to people that hadn't even heard of him. Judgement on people without knowledge of God will be different than judgment on those who chose to follow his standard.
You stated that the laws were from that time, where is the updated bible describing the laws that should be followed today?
Ohio also touched on this and ill add some as well.
The old testament law was for the covenant people before Christ. For example, they had to sacrifice animals to show their repentance. That was the law. When Christ was crucified, he atoned for our sin and payed the ransom of it by experiencing physical death. He became the sacrificial lamb (which was symbolic of the sacrificial animals in Old testament) in doing this the sacrificial law changed and he gave us two "new" commandments (which aren't really new, but just a summary of all of the previous commandments): love God, and love your neighbor. (Don't know the exact scripture off the top of my head)
Jesus said that He didn't come to give us a new law, but to fulfill the old. Consider the original ten commandments, do they not outline exactly what Jesus says there? Now our temporal punishment is subject to where we live and the laws established there, (as well as a loss of God's holy spirit and presence of it). Our eternal punishment comes when we stand before God to be judged.
You are saying that we are to follow the laws of the land even if they contradict what is written in the bible? That's very confusing. How do you know when the laws of the land go too far? How do you know which ones to follow if there are a number of contradictions?
well, we are told not to kill, yet we serve in the armed forces and kill to protect out counrty. Am I a hypocrite in doing so? Luckily the law of the land doesn't tell me to steal, cheat, lie, etc. Otherwise I would leave.
For example, if the laws of the land state that kechua marriage is legal then shouldn't priests, pastors, ministers, etc have to perform kechua marriages? If they don't then they are going against the laws of the land.
Not sure how it is in Canada, but here we have seperation of church and state, so a pastor, minister, etc...is at liberty to chose what ceremonies they will and will not perform.
Later on I'll give you an example of our liberty to obey or dissobey the law.
You and Ohio disagreed on who should carry out the punishments in Leviticus. To me, it's not clear as to who should carry out those punishments; however, I don't understand how God can put someone to death if there is heaven and hell....symbolically speaking you could say that death means eternal punishment, but why didn't he just say that? Why didn't he say eternal damnation. Isn't that phrase used elsewhere in the bible? If so, then that would lead me to believe he meant death in our lifetime. I'm deducing here
You're opening many doors now. Ill try and answer as best as I can. Keep in mind that I'm just stating things to the best of my current knowledge. I've only scratched the surface of scripture as I started 7 years ago, so I don't know everything there is to know.
As far as death goes, it can be literal, and that's why the people were told to stone the sinner. He sustained people to positions of authority and they were expected to carry the law out. If they chose not to then they will be judged for that.
Death is also symbolic. Spiritual death is something that occures as a result of sin. When Adam sinned the consequence was death. Well, physical death DID result, just not at that moment. Also, he experienced spiritual death, where God's presence left him and he and Eve were kicked out of the garden of eden and left to fend for themselves. We are told though that when we repent then we are entitled to his spiritual presence again- this is one example of the spiritual death that can occure while we are alive. The other spiritual death is the "eternal damnation" one where when we die, had we chose not to repent and turned our back on God then we will not have his presence for all time and eternity (heaven). This is the worse possible death and was a scaring tactic used for the people of Isreal I believe.
Also, as far as him not explaining everything to us, all I can say is that there's no point of giving a test if you're just going to give the answers to every question before hand. We are here to be tried and tested to see if we sincerely want to follow him, so he only needs to give us the information we need to pass that test.
So, that means the people should be the judge and not God as we haven't seen God kill these people.
in OT Isreal yes, the people were to judge in richeousness.
You are saying that we aren't killing these people because times have changed and we can ignore those laws now. Or those only applied to Israel.
Yep. We are living in nations that aren't lead by him anymore, therefore we need to abide by the laws of the land. If there was a nation lead by him then I'd gladly move there, but that's not so; therefore I go to His church where I believe he is in control and guiding it.
And if those apply to Israel then I assume they are still valid laws...I haven't checked the laws of Israel, but I'm guessing they don't follow them as they are written.That brings me back to my initial questions....How do we know what laws we can ignore?
That particular law (in Leviticus 20) applied to OT Israel. I'm not Jewish so I don't know the rules in current Israel. And to your question of what laws to ignore; we are all free to ignore any and all law that we chose to. Again, God doesn't force us to do anything we don't want to.