Hi, thanks for the reply! No, I wasn't feeling left out, it's that on a fast-moving thread like this, I don't read every post. I tend to just check my alerts page, because anytime someone quotes a post that I wrote, it shows up there. So if someone doesn't reply to my post, I probably won't see their response.
It sounds like in your view, then, a mature believer, someone who has read the commandment about not mixing wool and linen, if they then wear clothes made of linen and wool blends, they are not following the written prescription that you talked about in your analogy. They are not living by every word.
Am I understanding you correctly?
And in your view, does this also apply to Cotton and polyester blends?
Assuming "mature believer" means someone who also has faith in Christ.
As point of fact, correct, one who knows to do right but willingly does not, to him it is sin.
I'm not sure what you're getting at with the second question though, to be honest...
Let's take tattoos. Let's say prior to Christ a worldly person went and got a body full of tattoos. Now let's say that after coming to Christ they swore off getting tattoos because they read that Israel was commanded not to have tatoos...but his body is full of them, head to toe, and he can't afford to remove them.
Would he be given mercy? Of course. He doesn't want them and wants to be pleasing to Yah but can't do anything about his past. Is wearing tattoos against Yah's law. Yes. But his past was forgiven the moment he converted, and in his heart he wants to be pleasing to Yah and is not willing to have them anymore.
As far as blends, most of us don't make our own clothes. Living is this world of darkness, which was purposely designed to be contrary to the law of Yah (if only many of us knew what time it really was in this great drama), we're in a difficult situation where we MUST do our best to endure.
Can you afford to buy new clothes without blends? If the answer is no but your heart is in the right place not to want to wear them, are you given mercy? Of course. Same as the law of sacrifice. Can't afford to as instructed so mercy is given.
The tablets of the law were always covered by the mercy seat.
The heart that says "meh it's impossible to do so I'm not going to worry about it" is different from the heart that says "I don't know if it's possible to do but I want to do it and I'm going to try my hardest to please Yah by His grace."
One buries his talent of faith underground while the other works his talent of faith to reap a return from it, to make the Master proud when He returns.