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5/10/2017 9:34:36 PM
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What Christianity is Really About: The Old Testament
Hello Offtopic! I am back from my brief respite and have started this series of posts again.
So let's begin. Many times have I been told that Christianity can't be about tolerance because the Old Testament contains a few bad verses. After looking into this, I can say without a doubt that these verses were effectively 'completed' by the New Testament. In Mathew 5: 17-18, Jesus says that he will complete the law of the prophets. His death marked an end of the Old laws governing the Israelites. This included stoning homosexuals to death, sacrificing animals, and many more. This does not mean that the teaching of the Old Testament are invalid, but the laws are.
17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished."
For those of you who want an alternative source aside from myself on the mater, I linked the website below. It is much more informative on the topic.
http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/how-christ-fulfilled-and-ended-the-old-testament-regime
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13 RepliesThis doesn't make the book any more accurate, or any less hypocritical. Look at the entirety of the book of Job and then like all of the book of Psalms. Job centers around the idea that we cannot fully understand God's will, nor can we explain His justice for the world. Bad things can, and will, happen to good people, and good will happen to bad. Then you have the book of Psalms, and other books such as Proverbs, which continuously say "do good and good WILL happen to you" promising riches and a thriving house/family. Those are teachings, not laws. I'd also like to mention that the authors of the books themselves are hypocritical. Solomon constantly talks about how evil "strange women" are and further admonishes women in his book saying how it's better to live in the -blam!-ing woods than to live with a testy woman, but he himself was led astray by women at the end of his life. Also, the Old Testament repeatedly has references to God saying that fathers will not pass their sins to their children, but he constantly punishes entire nations and subsequent generations for the actions of a few. I'm still reading through it and only up to the book of Isaiah, but there's been a lot of stuff which doesn't make sense so far...
