RE: Quick YEC Debunks
March 18, 2018 at 9:04 am
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2018 at 9:18 am by Fake Messiah.)
(March 17, 2018 at 11:15 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote: Do you understand that the old covenant was made with the people of Israel?
You yourself don't understand it (or consider it bullshit) for you just wrote:
(March 17, 2018 at 11:15 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote: nor do I reject any part of the Bible that I am aware of.
So you do reject parts of it which you feel are not meant for you.
We all know the story when Jesus stopped crowd that wasn't doing anything unusual, but simply applying Old Testament laws of stoning a woman that wasn't fateful to her hubby. But Jesus also said in "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets," Matthew 5:17
So we all know that job of faithful Christians isn't easy. Jesus, in fact, never spells out which parts of the OT should be kept and which ones should be abandoned. So, how are good Christians to decide? The typical rule of thumb goes something like this: if the OT says stuff you like but that is not mentioned by Jesus (i.e. that homosexuality is a sin, etc.), then you'll firmly argue that it's clearly an important part of Christian theology since it's found in the Old Testament. If, on the other hand, it says something you don't like, then you can just go ahead and ignore it since real Christianity is about New Testament anyway. The beauty of this game is that you can make the Bible say pretty much anything you want it to say.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"