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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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5 RepliesEdited by Cinnie: 5/12/2017 2:44:13 PMI've always been taught that the coming of Jesus made it to where you didn't have to perform animal sacrafices or anything following the old laws, you only had to have a relationship with God and ask forgiveness for your sins, and he would help you be how he wanted you to be. BUT I was also taught that God is the same and has always been the same, and he doesn't make mistakes, which means he's the same God that flooded the Earth and routinely punishes people with his "holy wrath" or whatever. If he doesn't make mistakes, why did he make the rainbow as a promise to never flood the Earth again? Could that have been a mistake? Also, God seems pretty self-absorbed if you ask me. He created a whole universe with humas just to worship him and gave the humans free will then allowed them to go to hell when they actually used it. Why do we feed into that when we despise it when other humans have that quality? Maybe it's because we percieve ourselves to be lower than him. Whatever. I hope I explained myself adequately. [spoiler]I do believe in God, but I'm not religious and not a Christian even though I do have mostly the same set of morals, just to clarify.[/spoiler]
