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- From: tensmekl@infonode.ingr.com (Kermit Tensmeyer)
- Subject: Re: Reconciling OT with NT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.152119.7379@infonode.ingr.com>
- Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
- References: <1992Nov15.024945.4805@rigel.econ.uga.edu> <1992Nov14.214406.23543@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <1992Nov16.030911.25233@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:21:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.030911.25233@watson.ibm.com> strom@Watson.Ibm.Com (Rob Strom) writes:
- >|> He mellowed.
- >|>
- >Not from the Jewish perspective.
- >
- >From the Jewish perspective, the "OT" God judged
- >us for our actions, not our beliefs, and had
- >mercy on the righteous of all nations.
- >
- >The NT God judges us for our beliefs only, and
- >casts the unbelievers into an eternal fiery hell ---
- >the place of wailing and gnashing of teeth.
- >
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- oop's OT God Judged House of Isreal according to performance of keeping
- a law of actions.
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- Outside of the covenant people, the OT God, would even bother judgeing
- the gentile.
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- In the NT, past the events of Christ and Peter, Paul opened the
- opportuiity for salvations even to the heathen.
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- Not to stir the waters, but hope and faith were major elements in
- OT as well, the belief or unbelief of the people were regarded as
- reasons for God to judge.
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- Kermit Tensmeyer | Intergraph Corporation
- klt@kt8127.b23a.ingr.com | Deep in Dixie
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