(October 6, 2014 at 12:20 am)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:The old testament isn't the reason I am Christian.
Without the ot the nt is pointless.
Are you sure it's not the other way around. With the NT, the OT is pointless.
Thus says the lord, "these are my chosen people I will favor and punish them above all others."
"Ooops, what I really meant is I love all mankind, but if I don't beat myself up a little for their foibles , I'll have to kill them all. . . . Chosen people, what chosen people? I now choose only the people who choose me."
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.