(November 19, 2012 at 3:10 am)ronedee Wrote: No! Christ changed everything.
We were ruled by law, now we are under God's grace and have the Holy Spirit.
Jesus came to "fulfill the law, not to abolish it..." Meaning it was "finished".
As Christians we are NOW to love God, and one another as ourselves.
So, we'll keep our OT for reference....keep Christ as our new guide!
But, this is all for your comedic fun? Let not God's Word go in vain.
"Let all those who have eyes, see. And all those who have ears, hear."
There are a distressingly large number of your co-religionists who would disagree with your interpretation of that.
But, that's neither here nor there. Regardless of your interpretation, Jesus did not repudiate nor condemn any of what he did (as God) in the Old Testament. The crimes were still committed and still celebrated as good works. And, though the OT is definitely more horrific than the NT and provides the juiciest tidbits, that's only a relative thing.