RE: Thoughts on this apologetic
June 22, 2015 at 7:06 pm
(This post was last modified: June 22, 2015 at 7:10 pm by Metis.)
Honestly it depends what kind of flavor Christian you're debating Milleby, they all have different views on the reliability or interpretation of different verses although the premise you explain above does hold water with most of them. Jesus fulfilled the "ceremonial" requirements of the OT, that is the need to sacrifice and uphold Kashrut amongst other things. What they don't believe was "fufilled" are moral commands; don't steal, don't put your dick anywhere but your wifes Vajayjay etc.
Moral commands that contradict each other are overwritten by the NT, so Solomons harem was cool but after Jesus said about two becoming one it wasn't anymore.
I honestly wouldn't get caught up in a scripture debate to begin with; ask them why you should talk about the Bible in particular as opposed to the Koran? Better yet, pick up a copy of a text from a dead religion (I like to use Ovid's Metamorphoses myself) and quote verses from that to support your moral position; the Metamorphoses is awesome for this because there are so many episodes of kinky sex, murder, abortion, genocide and rape within to use as divine examples or commands, better still it's all neatly divided up between chapters and verses so you can quite neatly and fairly quote yourself with references like "Scylla 16:23". When they object to your standard of morality call them out for being a hypocrite bitch
Moral commands that contradict each other are overwritten by the NT, so Solomons harem was cool but after Jesus said about two becoming one it wasn't anymore.
I honestly wouldn't get caught up in a scripture debate to begin with; ask them why you should talk about the Bible in particular as opposed to the Koran? Better yet, pick up a copy of a text from a dead religion (I like to use Ovid's Metamorphoses myself) and quote verses from that to support your moral position; the Metamorphoses is awesome for this because there are so many episodes of kinky sex, murder, abortion, genocide and rape within to use as divine examples or commands, better still it's all neatly divided up between chapters and verses so you can quite neatly and fairly quote yourself with references like "Scylla 16:23". When they object to your standard of morality call them out for being a hypocrite bitch
