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- From: adams@spss.com (Steve Adams)
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- Subject: Re: Reconciling OT with NT
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 17:53:16 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.030911.25233@watson.ibm.com> <1992Nov19.002242.6511@noao.edu> <adams.722185897@spssig> <1992Nov19.160202.10439@zeus.franklin.edu>
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- scruggs@zeus.franklin.edu (Kevin Scruggs) writes:
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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...
-
- I am ELCA. We are catholic....(ie universal). The intent of Luther was to
- reform catholicism. ELCA considers itself a reform movement within
- catholicism.
-
- Protestant and catholic are *not* mutually exclusive...
-
- -Steve
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