RE: Why can't Christians say that parts of the Old Testament don't apply??..
October 22, 2010 at 11:21 pm
(This post was last modified: October 22, 2010 at 11:42 pm by Godscreated.)
(October 22, 2010 at 9:56 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: Godschild, I realize you have a lot of other skeptics asking you questions but I was wondering if you could answer my earlier one about how the OT forbids the consumption of sacrificial blood and the NT requires it. You've answered that the consumption of sacrificial blood in communion is only symbolic but isn't pretending to commit a sin also bad? Jesus said so on his sermon on the mount.
Any other Christians who want to chime in and provide their own answers would be welcome to do so.
Why would Jesus ask His disciples to sin or anyone for that matter, He came to be a sacrifice to release us from sin not to bind us to sin. Jesus never asked anyone to drink real blood or to pretend to either. The drinking of wine...grapejuice and consumption of the bread where and are a symbolic act to remind us of the sacrifice Jesus made for us. If you will go back to the OT you will find that God told His people that it was sinful to consume meat with the blood in it so it is always sinful to consume blood or the meat of an animal that has not been bled out before it it butchered. In my understanding of scripture communion is not a sinful act, as I said above Christ came to save us from our sins, Christ asked us,even commanded us to remember Him by communion and to ask us to sin would be against the character of the One who sacrificed Himself to save us from our sins.
(October 22, 2010 at 2:39 am)Loki_999 Wrote: Cool... a christian who has tried and rejected drugs from experience. Congratulations. It really pisses me off when people condemn drugs without trying them.
Still, i do like them by these days tend to limit myself to the occasional smoke of weed. Can't party like i used to.
Loki_999 I truly wish I had never indulged into drugs, I've had to many friends die from drug use and it really breaks my heart every time I hear about one of them dying. Drug use of any kind is no substitute for living life with a clear mind. Drugs do not make problems go away not even for a minute, the problem is still there when one straightens up and still hasn't been dealt with, the time spent getting high could be better spent resolving problems and gaining satisfaction from overcoming a problem. Now with this said I was not pointing this statement at anyone in particular just stating a truth.
(October 22, 2010 at 12:27 pm)tavarish Wrote: Theists - how do you determine what's real and what's not? How do you distinguish fact from fantasy?
Fantasy has no lasting effect on ones life where reality always leaves a life long effect on ones life. So for me God is a life long effect.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
