I think my irony meter blew up.
Firstly a Christian who wholly rejects the old testament is not following a life in Christ. Jesus readily and frequently quoted old testament verses and laws, and used the stories in his parables and in answers to questions. That last verse in Matthew I believe was actually from Jesus' mouth.
It also says
I know atheists love to pretend the Bible doesn't teach us to think about the laws and justify them with our own inner morals but
So clearly just accpeting the law and doing it is folly and the blind leading the blind. The fact that Jesus quote stories from the OT doesn't mean he felt they were literally real in every case, simply that they were good moralistic references for his parables. To take them literally with no thought or without a check of what's in your heart is unreasonable and not according to the doctrine the way to use the tool we call a Bible. Obviously a lot of atheists have read the Bible at least in part and have said, "that makes no sense and is BS" and according to scripture , your questioning of the word is necessary and what most (if not all) Chrsitian should also do. [/rant/preach/quotefest]
Firstly a Christian who wholly rejects the old testament is not following a life in Christ. Jesus readily and frequently quoted old testament verses and laws, and used the stories in his parables and in answers to questions. That last verse in Matthew I believe was actually from Jesus' mouth.
It also says
I know atheists love to pretend the Bible doesn't teach us to think about the laws and justify them with our own inner morals but
So clearly just accpeting the law and doing it is folly and the blind leading the blind. The fact that Jesus quote stories from the OT doesn't mean he felt they were literally real in every case, simply that they were good moralistic references for his parables. To take them literally with no thought or without a check of what's in your heart is unreasonable and not according to the doctrine the way to use the tool we call a Bible. Obviously a lot of atheists have read the Bible at least in part and have said, "that makes no sense and is BS" and according to scripture , your questioning of the word is necessary and what most (if not all) Chrsitian should also do. [/rant/preach/quotefest]
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
