(March 17, 2018 at 8:10 am)alpha male Wrote:(March 17, 2018 at 5:57 am)Wololo Wrote: That's what YECs* get that mainliners don't, if you reject part of the bible you admit there is no reason to accept any of it. Of course the fact that they themselves forget this lesson with later bits of the ot is sublimely hilarious.
It's not rejection to note that a part of the Bible is explicitly addressed to a certain group, rather than to humanity in general.
(March 17, 2018 at 5:57 am)Wololo Wrote: PS do you eat shellfish or wear clothes of mixed fabrics? Do you sacrifice livestock to yhwh at passover?
Try actually reading the OT covenants. ETA: Acts 15 would be useful too.
Yeah, I'm actually with the Christians on this point. Like it or not, the Christian relationship to OT law is largely defined by Paul's doctrines (there are obviously other NT passages that can be used to support the same points, but I tend to discount them as very likely being influenced by Paul's earlier teachings).
I've railed many times that the Christian use of the OT amounts to little more than a Gentile appropriation of Jewish scripture that undercuts and rejects Judaism even as it claims to fulfill it. That sort of cultural high-jacking might be seen as suspect and a fruitful line of attack, but lambasting Christians for not following certain laws that their own scripture assures them don't apply in light of Christ's sacrifice is a dead end.
