(December 1, 2017 at 5:38 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(December 1, 2017 at 5:02 pm)SteveII Wrote: That's an entirely different topic. My interest right now is on the thread title and the idea that morality should evolve.
Thank you for the example. Did the NT say to drown or burn "witches"? If not, your complaint is that a group added their own crap to NT instructions and then it was subsequently found to be crap. The OP did not say "misuses of religion stifles moral evolution", so I am assuming that it is the original instructions which define a Christian that has the "stifling" effect.
Are you suggesting that the new testament says that we are to abandon law altogether? That seems a bit steep.
'Abandon' isn't the right word. The moral laws of the OT were summarized/encapsulated in the NT message/instructions and following them would ensure (and in some cases exceed) satisfying the OT prescriptions. The other civil and dietary laws were for another people in another context.
