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- From: pharvey@quack.sac.ca.us (Paul Harvey)
- Subject: Re: Reconciling OT with NT
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- References: <1e5m2jINNob7@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: 15 Nov 1992 19:38:11 UTC
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- In article <1e5m2jINNob7@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- bc744@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark Ira Kaufman) writes:
- > The New Tesament CANNOT be reconciled with what you refer to as
- >the 'Old' Testament, and I refer to as the Bible. The whole idea
- >of the New Testament was that the OT was replaced, not augmented.
- > I am a Jew. As a Jew, I have no use for, or interest in Jesus
- >or Christianity. As the focus of the NT is on Jesus, the form of
- >the NT is 'biographical.' The OT is a narritive of the growth of
- >the human race as a moral species. It is the story of God trying
- >to teach us right from wrong.
-
- I agree. The "OT" is all about the human being discovering free will. Like
- a child growing to adulthood, we must learn we have no one to blame but
- ourselves. It is we who have made a mess of the Earth and it is we who
- must turn it around. We still have a great deal of "growing up" to do.
- We have met the enemy and it is us. The Lord has delivered us from
- slavery, any clinging to the broken shackles is of our own design. We
- were intended to have dominion over the Earth and the other creatures.
- That is not a position of power, that is a position of great responsiblity.
- Knowledge of good and bad was a gift so that we may do right by it.
- So that we may do the right thing. The right thing can not be found in a
- book because each person has their own right thing of which they should
- learn. Obviously this free will and freedom is a great responsibility
- and that is why we see so many people yearning for the days of an all
- knowing slave master thus removing the burden. Just as a child must grow
- into an adult, so the human being must grow towards full realization of
- free will, self determination and full responsibility for others. This
- is not an easy task, but what else is there for us to do? Is such a goal
- beyond our grasp?
-