RE: Deadliest religion ever?
March 27, 2017 at 1:52 pm
(This post was last modified: March 27, 2017 at 1:57 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 27, 2017 at 12:07 pm)SteveII Wrote: I don't think that recognizing very obvious changes in context, structure, and goals is jettisoning the earlier in favor of the latter. You can't ignore the differences and they need some sort of reconciliation and framework to understand them both (technically happening in what is formally known as systematic theology).
I'm sure that you've found plenty of ways to rationalize your beliefs, but so long as you respond to the suggestion that your religion is bloodthirsty by imposing an "nt only" qualifier, that's exactly what you're doing.
Like I said, I see no reason to bicker. I understand why you'd want to be rid of the OT. I also understand why that's not a possibility for you, hence the need for reconciliation. I'm simply pointing out that any separation is incoherent within the christian framework and won't remove any of the same in the NT anyway. I think it's a good thing, that christians have largely moved on. Yall were pretty live.
The same can be said of and for islam and muslims.
/ shrugs
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