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- Subject: Re: Something's Missing!?
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- From: adams@spss.com (Steve Adams)
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:45:01 GMT
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- rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla) writes:
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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earlier that the Old Testament is Old history and no longer valid....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?
- >
- >>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.
- >
- >>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.
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- Sorry, Eric, but the comment was directed at Jeffrey Price, not at you or
- CJ...look at the attributions lines...CJ's comments were deleted, but not
- the reference line to the post. I have no problem with your reading, or
- CJ's - we approach from different directions...
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- -Steve
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