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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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6 RepliesEdited by acousticsoul22: 5/11/2017 6:38:33 PMThe biggest thing to realize about the Hebrew Bible (I don't call it the old testament), is that it is not about God. It is about what the authors thought about God. Examples -the creation myth- with multiple authors writing about the creation of the world(it is also a very late addition to the HB, one of the most recent books), it was an anti-pagan polemic. The "inconsistencies" of the creation myth were not because they were stupid, it was to show the other religions of the ancient near East that the HB God was better than all other gods. -prophetic books- most of these books(Isaiah as an example), were not about Jesus, but being saved from the Babylon Ian exile (speaking of exile, as I previously mentioned, Genesis is a new book, written after the exile). They viewed God as the one to save them so they could return to where they came from. If you would like other examples, I can add to my post/add it in a reply. The laws that were written in the Hebrew Bible were cultural and specific to the time they were written. Also, you have to look into who wrote it, to whom, when, why... Etc. To the point of the OP, yes, Jesus, according to the Bible, if you believe it to be the authoritative word of God, came to fulfill the law, not get rid of it. Many of the laws in the Hebrew Bible are still followed (think kosher laws or not shaving the side of your beard for example). Most of what was done away with was the ritual laws.
