but you forgot the part where the bible condones sexual abuse and incest [Lot's daughters get him drunk after his wife is killed by God for wanting to watch him reign hellfire on the heathen sodomites; then they implant themselves with his seed in order to sire him more offspring]. FLDS mormons must love that part. :P
it's so true, and isn't it funny how they just change stuff when it doesn't suit them anymore... like oh people are wondering about the afterlife, well let's tell them they'll be resurrected!! I dunno if u look back in history from like neolithic, mesopotamian religions and old hewbrew religion, it's so evident that at once, when new things are introduced, religion change because it doesn't have a purpose anymore... But then again, I'm a cynical critic of religion...
All these verses you are giving of things that are forbidden are in the old testament. God in the old testament had all these rules and convenants with the people of Israel. With the New testament and the coming of Christ, all these covenants and rules no longer apply. Only faith in Christ matters. There are some verses in the new testament against homosexuality and abortion. Christians abide by the New Testament, not the old testament. the Jews still abide by the Old testament. Thought i would make it clear :)
So Christians are not hypocrite, but you don't seem to understand the implications that come along with crucification of Christ. With his coming, we no longer have to abide by all these rules (the ones like death if you do not ring the bell when entering the temple. Covenants no longer apply today. This is made clear in the New testament.
Not only is that utterly mad, it's absurd. Nobody ever seriously said that until the reformation; it's justification by faith, and it's, IIRC, Augustinian, articulated in protestantism by Luther. It's certainly not Catholic, and it's fairly recent as anyone's official doctrine. Catholicism requires works as well as faith, and frankly this is all also part of a harmonization of doctrine with reality. The early Christians had to decide who could be Christians, and how they should live; should gentiles be allowed, or only Jews? Should Christians live according to the 613 Laws? In the end, better heads prevailed in the name of popularity: how could the faith propagate if no-one was allowed to join it
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Hawhaw. You know, the whole anti-abortion crusade is a lot more recent than the church would have us believe. The church actually used to say (as did everyone) that a child was alive at 'quickening', when the mother first felt it move, and there was, in fact, no prohibition against killing a foetus. This whole thing is just so wrapped up in that absurd conservative notion of a simpler, better time that never existed, that it's barely worth discussing it with them. It's as tiresome as the perpetually ending world. Revelations was written to chide Greeks in John the Divine's time, Christ was *then* imminent, and he would punish *Greeks*. Christianity has thus required a perpetually ending world because it has had to keep rolling back the date of his return (always tomorrow) and blaming whatever's wrong on everyone else (not Greeks now, but whoever else is conveniently within reach).
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but you forgot the part where the bible condones sexual abuse and incest [Lot's daughters get him drunk after his wife is killed by God for wanting to watch him reign hellfire on the heathen sodomites; then they implant themselves with his seed in order to sire him more offspring]. FLDS mormons must love that part. :P
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So Christians are not hypocrite, but you don't seem to understand the implications that come along with crucification of Christ. With his coming, we no longer have to abide by all these rules (the ones like death if you do not ring the bell when entering the temple. Covenants no longer apply today. This is made clear in the New testament.
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