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- From: parker@ehsn17.cen.uiuc.edu (Robert S. Parker)
- Subject: Re: Something's Missing!?
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:58:39 GMT
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- jjprice@eos.ncsu.edu (JEFFREY JAMES PRICE) writes:
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- >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.
-
- But remember, Jesus ... was a Jew. ;)
-
- >-Jeffrey Price
-
- -Rob
-