RE: The 'old testament' argument
March 12, 2013 at 10:33 pm
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2013 at 10:56 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
This topic came up in a conversation between Drich and I. The OT laws are tangled up with atonement and it is hard to discuss one without discussing the other. Hopefully, I've learned how to insert links properly...
http://atheistforums.org/thread-17275.html
The executive summary is something like this. By the time of first Advent, the internal sense of OT laws had been lost and worship had fallen into unspiritual legalism, i.e. practice of the Mosaic rules had become empty gestures. Jesus restores to the church the spiritual principles of loving the Lord and our neighbors as ourselves, that informed the rules of the ancient Hebrew theocracy. Legalistic compliance with Mosaic law can be dismissed, but only to the extent that the spiritual laws represented by the OT rituals and prohibitions are obeyed.
http://atheistforums.org/thread-17275.html
The executive summary is something like this. By the time of first Advent, the internal sense of OT laws had been lost and worship had fallen into unspiritual legalism, i.e. practice of the Mosaic rules had become empty gestures. Jesus restores to the church the spiritual principles of loving the Lord and our neighbors as ourselves, that informed the rules of the ancient Hebrew theocracy. Legalistic compliance with Mosaic law can be dismissed, but only to the extent that the spiritual laws represented by the OT rituals and prohibitions are obeyed.
