(November 30, 2014 at 3:03 pm)Lek Wrote: The whole purpose of the law was to reveal man's sinfulness.That's just a further indictment of what Jesus did, then. When the man claimed to have kept the law since he was young, Jesus does not challenge this. So the man had done as god demanded within the law. Jesus simply makes up a new rule in order to cut the guy off at the knees.
Not that the young man should have been surprised. It's likely that he had at least heard about what happened to Job, another man who was put through a wringer in spite of being in god's good graces. Just because you follow the law and live a good life doesn't mean that god won't wreck your life. He is one nasty customer.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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