In Case You Need A Reason To Despise Baptist Scum-suckers

[Thumpalumpacus]

Thanks or clearing that up.


Sure, I'm glad you asked. You are cherry-picking the New Testament in preference to the Old. Even Jesus whom you worship says quite explicitly that he came to fulfill the old laws, not eliminate them, and that not one word will change until "everything is accomplished".


Apparently it was okay to murder gays for a long, long time, according to your god, and then one day your god shows up, in the flesh, and says "hey guys, that's not okay any more." Has the morality of the act changed? Your god has -- according to you, though I don't agree -- changed the moral status of an act, but we're supposed to believe that morality is objective because there is a god who imposes it upon us?

Ok thanks, Im not cherry-picking one over the other at all. The Old Testament isn't even a Christian book. Its a Jewish book. The bit where Jesus says he came to fulfill the law does not mean what your implying it means either. He didn't mean he came to fortify or reaffirm the law. He meant he came to satisfy the law. As in, if you fulfill your rental contract you no longer are under contract. You didn't destroy it but it still isn't there anymore. The last thing Christ said before he died on the cross was "it is finished" meaning, during his life he met all requirements to carry out what was written in the OT as concerning the law. Meaning he did not do away with the law, yet, believers are no longer under the law, but grace. That kind of also answers your last question. In add to it however, that commandment in the OT was written as inter-tribal guidelines at that point in time. It wasn't written to humanity at large much less Christians who didn't even exist at the time. Which with the combination of those two points is why those laws aren't followed by Christians.

Unfortunately for your point, there are plenty of Christians who have the OT in their Bibles, who abide by the strictures laid out therein, and they are just as convinced of their interpretation of their faith as you are of yours.

Me, I think y'all are all a little too engaged in superstition for your own good. So long as you keep it to yourself, though, I really don't care.