(September 2, 2014 at 11:36 am)Chad32 Wrote: Christians still oppress everyone who does and doesn't want to worship god to this day.without any arguement certain expressions of christianity do. But not all.
Quote:That doesn't really explain anything.Take another look at the ministry of Christ He spent the majority of his time rebuking the religious leaders for doing what you said does not explain anything.. It would seem to me that Christ saw this hypocritical following of the law, but keeping one heart in evil as being a pretty big deal to Him.. Matter of fact this was the reason they had Him crusified.
Quote:Yahweh would kill or order the killing of people who didn't follow the law all the time.What do you think Hell is? It is the NT equilivent of the OT death penality.
Quote: If Jesus just wanted us to be good people and not worry about the law, then why is faith important?Again, only a very small measure of it is. In short to place faith in God is to humble yourself before him. It is to take the pride out of one's religious walk.
Quote: Jesus ridicules the Pharisees, but given passages like the one about stoning a man to death for picking up sticks on the wrong day, is it so hard to belief some people would demand the letter of the law be followed?Later in the NT Paul speaks to the brothers who can't get use to the idea of religious freedom. He says if you think it is a sin to do 'X' even if we have been freed from that practice then for you it is a sin.
Christ himself was recorded in saying "What ever you bind here on Earth, will be bound in Heaven, and what ever you loose on earth will be loosed in Heaven." Meaning what ever you consider to be law will be considered law.
Quote:Jesus was almost a completely different person from Yahweh anyway. Connecting the two together just makes the book even more confusing.The Father's standards are still in play. What Christ did was to take the punishment for every sin. Meaning we do not have to feel the imediate effects of sin under this New Covenant.[/quote]
