RE: What IS good, and how do we determine it?
June 21, 2015 at 9:14 pm
(This post was last modified: June 21, 2015 at 9:28 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(June 21, 2015 at 8:29 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:(June 21, 2015 at 3:17 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: 17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
This is incorrect. Christians understand that Jesus meant what he said, and they understand what he meant. You may not.
When Jesus says, "I have not come to destroy but to fulfill," you have the answer. Jesus DID fulfill the law and the prophets. The Greek word translated as "fulfill" actually means "to make complete." The New Covenant of Jesus thus includes and concludes the Old Covenant; it both perfects and transforms it.
And while the sacrificial laws of the OT expired with the sacrifice of Jesus, the moral law (Ten Commandments, etc.) was retained and refined.
Yet your god had the power to obviate all that by perfect forgiveness, and chose not to do so. In the process, he smeared innocent blood on your hands ... blood which you wear with pride.
How can you feel saved at all under those circumstances? I would be horrified to know that I was alive because an innocent person had been sacrificed. Yet you wear it as a badge of pride, that you merited a scapegoat of your own.
