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- From: jjprice@eos.ncsu.edu (JEFFREY JAMES PRICE)
- Subject: Re: Something's Missing!?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.202226.14991@ncsu.edu>
- Originator: jjprice@c00075-100lez.eos.ncsu.edu
- Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: jjprice@eos.ncsu.edu (JEFFREY JAMES PRICE)
- Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
- References: <C1462t.GJz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan19.221321.15408@netcom.com> <1993Jan20.003745.274@ncsu.edu> <1993Jan20.040018.16612@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:22:26 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.040018.16612@news.columbia.edu>, rj24@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Robert Johnston) writes:
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- |>In article <1993Jan20.003745.274@ncsu.edu> jjprice@eos.ncsu.edu (JEFFREY JAMES PRICE) writes:
- |>>
- |>>In article <1993Jan19.221321.15408@netcom.com>, bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig) writes:
- |>>
- |>>
- |>>|>GOOD. I applaud your attitude. Remain faithful to your beliefs, but
- |>>|>keep an open mind. (And note that your Bible mentions a few places in
- |>>|>the Old Testament even where women had abortions, but says nothing to
- |>>|>condemn this.)
- |>>
- |>>Personally I am Catholic and we only use the new testament as our
- |>> religous text...We do read the old testament and adhere to most of
- |>> it. But one must realize that the old testament was just that the old
- |>> testament was just that the old one(look up testament if you want
- |>> clarification) While the Old Testament does provide a historical background
- |>> Jesus had not yet come and the Christian religion was not yet established
- |>> only the Jewish. We feel that all the old testament laws are invalid because
- |>> they were made before the coming of Christ and the making of the new
- |>> testament. Many laws in the old testament are not that strict because
- |>> the church did have to compromise because they were dealing with hethens
- |>> and non-believers. They did not want to alienate everyone but bring them
- |>> in.
- |>>
- |>
- |>Could someone please translate this into english?
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- Sure thing Rob.....
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- We do study the Old Testament (OT) but mainly as a historical text.
- The laws in the OT are invalid because of the New Testament that Jesus
- made when he came down to Earth. The NT is where to look if you want
- to study Christian Law and not the OT.
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- --
- -Jeffrey Price
- _____________________________________________________________________
- | "When he went, had you gone and had she, if she wanted to and were |
- | able, for the time being excluding all the restraints on her not |
- | to go also, would he have brought you, meaning you and she, with |
- | him to the station?" |
- | "OBJECTION: That question ought to be taken out and shot!!" |
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