>While this is not something I'm too familiar with - here's what I believe to be the best answer...
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>Most of the OT laws are no longer binding. As a basic rule, if the law is repeated in the NT, then it's binding on us today - otherwise it is not.
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>That said, I do believe repsonsibility for the welfare of the Widow and her children does fall to the family first. That would not include fathering children. If the family is unable, then responsibility would fall on her church.
Actually, that's more or less what I believe, too. Some of the laws in the Old Testament have been superseded by a more recent revelation.
Similarly, I also believe that some of the laws of the New Testament - by no means all of them, of course - have been superseded, more recently, especially by the Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
