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- From: scruggs@zeus.franklin.edu (Kevin Scruggs)
- Subject: Re: Reconciling OT with NT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.160202.10439@zeus.franklin.edu>
- Organization: Franklin University (Columbus, OH)
- References: <1992Nov16.030911.25233@watson.ibm.com> <1992Nov19.002242.6511@noao.edu> <adams.722185897@spssig>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:02:02 GMT
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- In article <adams.722185897@spssig> adams@spss.com (Steve Adams) writes:
- >forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
- >
- >>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.
- >
- Your nit needs to be picked a bit more...
- Evangelical Lutherans are QUITE protestant...
- Tho, I do agree the Missouri Synod-varieties are Catholics without a pope...
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