RE: Another law thread
January 29, 2013 at 2:41 am
(This post was last modified: January 29, 2013 at 2:41 am by Ryantology.)
(January 28, 2013 at 12:07 pm)Drich Wrote: What is so hard to understand about how the bible was compiled? Two distinct religions are being repersented by one book. Anything OT was written to Old testament Jews. The New testament was written to Christianity.
This means if you are having a Christian conversation you must look between the Book of Matthew and the book of Jude to define Christian commands. As Leviticus is an OT book it those commands were written to OT Jews. Even Modern Jews do not follow all of those commands anymore.
Why keep the OT around if its laws and edicts are not supposed to apply to Christians? Why is only half of the Holy Bible relevant to the Christian religion?
That it appeals to two different religions is obvious, it seems very much like completely different Gods in each Testament, the stupid brutish maniac of the Old and the "Disregard That I Suck Cocks" New. But, they are (allegedly) the same, and you can't escape what that means: your God, and your Christ, is still the stupid, brutish maniac he was in the OT, and himself states that those stupid, brutish laws of his would remain in effect until the end of heaven and earth.
I know where you go from here, "But Jesus fulfilled the law". Even if I take that to mean what you insist it means, that Christians aren't forced to follow all those old rules, it is your unwillingness to follow them that makes you the sinner you are, the sin for which you are supposed to atone.
Christianity boils down to "God, please forgive me for not slaughtering unbelievers, my bratty kids, gays, witches, fornicators, and guys who don't take the weekend off". You are apologizing to a psychopath for not acting as psychopathic as he wants you to.
It doesn't matter that you don't commit the savagery God wants. Being a Christian means you are sorry you aren't.
