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Originally posted by Bodhi7
reply to post by murphy22
So then why are there direct quotes in the bible with Jesus saying to still follow the old law?
The claim that christians aren't supposed to follow the old law is false and a cop out to avoid living such a strict life.
Very little of the old testament applies to you. Unless you are a jew.
Originally posted by b14warrior
reply to post by Advantage
I will let people believe and do as they want as long as it is not trying to take away the human rights of others.
I have just as much of a problem with Muslims trying to destroy some human rights of certain people as I do with fundamentalist Christians.
If people just sat by and watched as people did things they don't believe in then America would still be living in an apartheid.
I support fundamentalist Christians right to believe what they want as much as I would defend my right to voice my concern that their views and actions are effecting people around them.
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Originally posted by ColoradoJens
reply to post by Advantage
I agree with your polyester comments. I was going to add in any sans-a-belt type pants but they have made a comeback so I might offend someone.
CJ
Very little of the old testament applies to you. Unless you are a jew
Originally posted by b14warrior
reply to post by FidelityMusic
If fundamentalist Christians did not persecute and try to stop homosexuals gaining human rights then I would let them be.
I have not started a thread about Bhudists or Sikhs. Why? Because they don't try to stop others from living how they chose.edit on 5-8-2012 by b14warrior because: (no reason given)
“For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 5:18-19 RSV) Clearly the Old Testament is to be followed until the end of human existence itself.
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall In no wise pan from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven (Matt. 5:17-19).
4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: