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- From: aaron@binah.cc.brandeis.edu (Scott Aaron)
- Subject: Re: Reconciling OT with NT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.150905.16142@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:09:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.044519.5596@bnr.ca>, bcash@crchh410.BNR.CA (Brian Cash) writes:
- >Different in the way God shows his (sorry, His) wrath/love.
- ^^^
- Whatever. :-)
-
- >OT: stone the sinner (my fav: gathering sticks on Sabbath)
- >NT: "let he who is without sin..."
-
- OT: sinner deserves death.
- NT: sinner deserves death but, since we are all sinners, no one is qualified
- to carry it out.
-
- >I think that is a LITTLE different.
- >In the OT, if anyone got in His way (Sodom, Eqypt, Babel, etc), He
- >wasn't slow in throwing his weight around. In the NT, He didn't
- >smite a single person (well, maybe Judas. But in a round-about way.)
-
- What about Ananias, Sapphira, and Herod?
-
- >Of course there a few books in NT that look like they belong in OT
- >(Revelations, for one), but those don't focus on the life of Jesus,
- >which seems to be the main crux of the NT.
-
- Actually, only the gospels focus on the life of Jesus. Acts and the letters
- focus on the impact of his life on the world. The OT prepares the way for
- the Messiah, the gospels tell of his life, the letters tell of the impact
- in the aftermath of his death and resurrection.
-
- -- Scott @Brandeis
-
- "But God demonstrates His "I tell you that in the same way,
- own love for us, in that there will be more joy in heaven
- while we were yet sinners, over one sinner who repents, than
- Christ died for us." over ninety-nine righteous persons
- who need no repentance."
- -- Romans 5:8 [NASB] -- Luke 15:7 [NASB]
-