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- From: rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla)
- Subject: Re: Something's Missing!?
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:56:55 GMT
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- In article <adams.728067759@spssig> adams@spss.com (Steve Adams) writes:
- >jjprice@eos.ncsu.edu (JEFFREY JAMES PRICE) writes:
- >>In article <v77tln8@zola.esd.sgi.com>, cj@eno.esd.sgi.com (C.J. Silverio) writes:
- >>All the quotes you have are from the Old Testament and as I have stated
- >>earlier that the Old Testament is Old history and no longer valid....
- >>Although it is useful for studying history all the laws are not valid...
- >>Before Jesus came the OT was what counted and If I am correct still counts
- >>taoday for Jews but Christian follow the NT as the Law....
- >Huh? Jesus certainly didn't hold this position! Remember what he said?
- Sure, he talked the talk, but did he walk the walk?
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- >Not one iota of the Law (Torah) and Prophets would pass away. What Christ
- >did was move away from doctrinaire following of the law and ask for following
- >the spirit. Christ went BEYOND the literal requirements of the OT. Read the
- >passages in Matthew 5. Christ goes BEYOND murder, to hate. BEYOND adultery
- >to lust, BEYOND an 'eye for an eye' to turn the other cheek.
- Nonsense. Jesus directly contradicts the literal requirements of
- the law. The law requires you to stone adulterers.
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- >All of Jesus teaching is grounded in the OT.
- Again, I think this is untrue. Jesus provides a very different
- conception of the law than is found in the OT. For instance,
- he ignores the entire law of purity, which was very important.
-
- >Try studying the Bible a bit...
- I have and so has CJ. DOn't assume that just because w disagree
- with you, we are uninformed.
- -Ekr
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