RE: Thoughts on this apologetic
July 1, 2015 at 12:04 am
(This post was last modified: July 1, 2015 at 12:05 am by Redbeard The Pink.)
As others have stated, the answer you're going to get will depend mostly on the sophistication, denomination, and individual worldview of the theologian you're dealing with.
The whole point of the New Testament is to convince christians that Jesus of Nazareth, through the ultimate human sacrifice, fulfilled all possible sacrifices required by Old Testament law. How much of the Old Testament this erases depends on who you ask, and the two most common positions are these: either the sacrifice totally cancelled OT law except for the "Greatest Commandment(s)," or the sacrifice fulfilled the sacrificial and ceremonial laws, wiping out those but not the "moral" laws.
Of course, which laws are which is mostly arbitrary from what I can tell. I'm told there's some biblical categorizing of some of the OT laws in Acts, but even that isn't comprehensive, plus that book is one of the ones that's mostly fiction and written under a pseudonym anyway. One thing's for sure, though...the christian god does not want us doing any gay shit. He'd rather have us raping under-age slaves than doing any gay shit.
The whole point of the New Testament is to convince christians that Jesus of Nazareth, through the ultimate human sacrifice, fulfilled all possible sacrifices required by Old Testament law. How much of the Old Testament this erases depends on who you ask, and the two most common positions are these: either the sacrifice totally cancelled OT law except for the "Greatest Commandment(s)," or the sacrifice fulfilled the sacrificial and ceremonial laws, wiping out those but not the "moral" laws.
Of course, which laws are which is mostly arbitrary from what I can tell. I'm told there's some biblical categorizing of some of the OT laws in Acts, but even that isn't comprehensive, plus that book is one of the ones that's mostly fiction and written under a pseudonym anyway. One thing's for sure, though...the christian god does not want us doing any gay shit. He'd rather have us raping under-age slaves than doing any gay shit.
