No True Scotsman

[Esquilax]

As has been said before, we're not under the old Jewish law. Those laws were given to people under God's wrath. After the sacrifice of Christ we are now live under God's grace because he paid the penalty for sin. Jesus said that he came to fulfill the law and that nothing would disappear from the law until everything is accomplished. After his life, death and resurrection the fulfillment was accomplished.

Couple things: one, when you're trying to tell us that slavery as depicted in the bible was just prisoners of war and volunteers, and that's a demonstrable falsehood, then it doesn't matter if the New Testament supersedes the old or not, because that's still in the bible, and you're still wrong.

Secondly, Jesus never repeals or alters the rules for slavery at all, so you have absolutely no basis for claiming that things would be any different in the New Testament, especially when Jesus was all "business as usual, boys!" with regards to slavery. So again, your claim that this was happy nice slavery and not the kind we associate with the word is utter bullshit.

Thirdly, I guess you've abandoned the ten commandments then, if the Old Testament is dead and buried, right? And you tell all your christian friends not to bother with the ten commandments either?

If Jesus has paid the price for sin, doesn't that render all your No True Sotsman-ing completely pointless, anyway? What you're basically saying is that you can be the biggest monster in the history of the world, accept Jesus, and be home free.

If you want to talk about Christ's teachings, that's your New Testament legacy; one big blank check for bad behavior, just so long as you pray about it later. And you have the gall to tell us that the bad actions of christians don't reflect on the religion, when the core tenet of your faith is the absolution of any guilt, no matter how harsh the crime, for free, forever?