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- Subject: Re: Reconciling OT with NT
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- From: adams@spss.com (Steve Adams)
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:11:37 GMT
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- forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
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- >From article <1992Nov16.030911.25233@watson.ibm.com>, by strom@Watson.Ibm.Com (Rob Strom):
- >> In article <1992Nov14.214406.23543@doug.cae.wisc.edu>, mccullou@cae.wisc.edu (Mark McCullough) writes:
- >> |> How to reconcile the Old Testament God with the New Testament God, (they
- >> |> do appear to be quite different):
- >> |>
- >> |> 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
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >Not at all. This is only Protestant dogma. For a fuller expression
- >of Christianity, see Catholicism.
- A (minor) nit...Lutherans are catholic. And so are Eastern & Greek
- Orthodox and Anglicans.
-
- >>casts the unbelievers into an eternal fiery hell ---
- >>the place of wailing and gnashing of teeth.
- >>
- >>I agree that these are quite different,
- >>but it doesn't look like mellowing to me.
- >
- >
- >It's really very simple folks:
- >
- >In the OT, God teaches us right from wrong.
- >
- >In the NT, He teaches us why what is right is right,
- > and why what is wrong is wrong.
-
- Reasonable...but not complete...the NT proclaims salvation in spite of the
- law...the OT proclaims justification in the law.
-
- -Steve
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