Relevance of Old Testament in Modern World

[MrFun]

I'm actually much more spiritual rather than religious.

I'm definitely a Christian though.

[MrFun]

But from your narrow-minded viewpoint on Christianity Drake, does this mean that you favor parents putting their children to death when their children dishonor them?

[Drake Tungsten]

I favor following the laws laid down by God to the letter.

[MrFun]

Okay, so you want to reestablish slavery (of foreigners), and have Western Christian countries and Israel enact laws to legally permit parents to put their children to death for talking back to them.

Also, do you wear clothing of mixed fabrics/material?

[MrFun]

dp

[Drake Tungsten]

Okay, so you want to reestablish slavery (of foreigners), and have Western Christian countries and Israel enact laws to legally permit parents to put their children to death for talking back to them.

Foreigners and kids have got off too easy for too long.

Also, do you wear clothing of mixed fabrics/material?

Not that I know of. I doubt it, as I rarely wear clothes.

[Ben Kenobi]

(Homosexuality is mentioned only once in the new testament, lying/etc is mentioned many more times.)

Hmm?

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate [Greek, catamites], nor abusers of themselves with mankind [Greek, sodomites], nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God

1 Cor 6:9-10

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.

Romans 1:26-7

"Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,' and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'? So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."

Matthew 19:4-6

Which bible do you use?

[Ben Kenobi]

Yes - just as all Western Christian countries ignore parts they do not like. Such as parents putting their children to death for dishonoring them.

Where does the NT teach this? You claim you are under Law, not Grace, but you don't seem to regard the NT as authoritative.

If Matthew is not authoritative, how then do you believe that Christ is God?

[KrazyHorse]

Whatever BK's saying

[Jon Miller]

OK, twice, I didn't remember the Cor passage. How does it change my point? How many more times does it list lying?

Does anyone else have a reply to my view of what the Bible is?

JM

[Nikolai]

I'm actually much more spiritual rather than religious.

I'm definitely a Christian though.

For what it's worth, I think you are. I think you are wrong on some things, but so am surely I. And being wrong in specifics does not make either of us unworthy of God's love.

[MrFun]

Okay, so you want to reestablish slavery (of foreigners), and have Western Christian countries and Israel enact laws to legally permit parents to put their children to death for talking back to them.

Well obviously you're not being serious in this discussion.

[Wezil]

I'd prefer a debate on Tolkien mythology.

Much more logical.

[Heraclitus]

Just because you're part of a group of people who got together and decided to ignore the Word doesn't make you any more of a Christian than if you'd just gone ahead and ignored it on your own.

+1

[Heraclitus]

Yes - just as all Western Christian countries ignore parts they do not like. Such as parents putting their children to death for dishonoring them.

To that extent, there are no Christians being true to the Word if you want to take adherence to the Bible to such absurd extremes.

You are mixing NT and OT, there are somewhat longwinded but mostly consitent theological explanations that would let you ignore much of the OT. There really isn't such an excuse for the NT if you belive in the Christian god.


Listen if Christianity by your reasoning can be basically anything anyone wants it to be and quotes from the New Testament that was supposedly written by divinley inspired people can be cherry picked... can you tell me how does God have anything to do with Christianity?

Or if he does, why does God have more to do with Christianity ir Judaism than any other religion?