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- From: bobbe@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Robert Beauchaine)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Reconciling OT with NT
- Message-ID: <10765@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 23:14:40 GMT
- References: <1992Nov15.024945.4805@rigel.econ.uga.edu> <1992Nov14.214406.23543@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <30408@nntp_server.ems.cdc.com>
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- In article <30408@nntp_server.ems.cdc.com> pwhite@ems.cdc.com writes:
- >The whole idea that there is an inconsistancy between OT and NT misses the
- >mark. God is the same God in both books. His mercy, compassion, stedfast
- >love, justice, hatred and anger towards sin are expressed in both testaments.
- >In both testaments is the idea that God doesn't change. Start with the
- >idea that the same Being is talked about in all the books of the Bible. If
- >you start with the premise that there's a different God in the OT than the
- >NT, you're going to have a diificult time ever meeting up with the One God
- >of the Bible.
-
- Which is, of course, absolutely the wrong way to go about an
- investigation.
-
- How about starting with no notion at all of the being presented in
- the Bible, and then seeing where the text leads you? Fitting the
- facts to your preconceptions is a poor investigative technique.
- It is just as valid to assume that the god of the NT is not the
- same as the OT, and justifying your conclusions from the Bible.
-
- Oops, I'm sorry. I *really* intended this discussion to be about
- Allah, who doesn't seem to have suffered from these late onset
- schizophrenic tendencies.
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- Bob Beauchaine bobb@vice.ICO.TEK.COM
-
- "Look, I tried the cat experiment. On the third trial, the cat was
- dead. On each of the subsequent 413 trials, it remained dead. Am I
- doing something wrong?"
- James Nicoll
-
- Q. How many Heisenbergs does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A. If you know the number, you don't know where the light bulb is!
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