(June 16, 2015 at 12:23 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(June 16, 2015 at 12:06 am)Jenny A Wrote: I'm perfectly aware that Christians aren't Jews and that Jesus was rather ambiguous about the law in the Old Testament. But the God of the New and Old Testaments is supposed to be the same one. And in the OT god "really" required certain things. And we really think those things are immoral now. Do you believe the OT misrepresented god's views?
You are correct that we believe God was always the same. It was the people's perception of Him that was not perfectly right, including those who wrote the OT. I believe the vast majority of the Old Testament to be allegorical rather than true events written literally. I am aware that a lot of Christians and Christian denominations take the OT quite literally, but I cannot speak for them. Only for myself as a Catholic.
Fair enough.
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.
