(June 22, 2014 at 1:16 pm)Lek Wrote: Did Jesus teach that it was right to murder or mistreat people?If you believe that Jesus is Yahweh, then he did more than that; he specifically ordered his subjects to murder and mistreat people.
If you believe that Jesus is Yahweh's son, then the best you can say is that his father sent him to soften the message and he did a confusing job of it. On the one hand, he preached a much milder form of behavior than Yahweh did. On the other hand, he made it a crime to even think about some sins, threatening torment in hell for those who couldn't be as "perfect" as his father.
Why do Christians try to separate what god said and did in the old testament, as if it didn't happen? I can't find the new testament verses where Jesus or god indicate any remorse for what happened in the OT, or that god decided that maybe his earlier approach wasn't the best one.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
