Quote:Have any of you actually read the New Testament? And if you did, did you read it with the filter of the vitriol and hate you put into your posts?
Yeah, actually a good point Stevie. The OT reads like political propaganda but as such it has a certain coherence if put into the context of the late 2d century BC.
The NT, on the other hand, except for the occasional warning to do what you are told, STFU and you'll get your "reward" in the NEXT life, reads like a pile of pious blather.
Quote:15 Brethren, I speak in terms of human relations: even though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been ratified, no one sets it aside or adds conditions to it. 16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed He does not say, "And to seeds," as referring to many, but rather to one, "And to your seed," that is, Christ. 17 What I am saying is this: the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, does not invalidate a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise. 18 For if the inheritance is based on law, it is no longer based on a promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by means of a promise. Abraham by a promise.
Absurdist shit.
But, when you have the power to burn someone at the stake for saying "WTF?" it tends to hang around as if it means something important.
Those days are gone.