RE: Would Jesus promote punishing the innocent instead of the guilty?
August 16, 2020 at 12:58 pm
(August 16, 2020 at 10:36 am)Vicki Q Wrote: Given the detail that Paul goes into to show that Jesus' death and resurrection is completely in line with the OT narrative, I can't agree.
The detail? Paul only claims to know nothing except "Jesus Christ, and him crucified" (1 Cor. 2:2), and reminds them that Christ died for our sins, was buried, and raised on the third day – three details he knows because they are "according to the scriptures" (1 Cor. 15:3–4).
(August 16, 2020 at 10:36 am)Vicki Q Wrote: The Gospel writers also are careful in their commentary to show continuity with the OT story.
Continuity? How? By listing so called Jesus's genalogy? Or maybe when they were making truly ridiculous claims that OT passages describe Jesus? Like one of the most notorious ones is Matthew 2:16-9, where its author claims how Jeremiah 31:15 in which Rachel is crying for her children is a reference to Herod's slaughter of the Innocents.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"