scary little changes

Neologist,

Some things I feel I can explain well enough. Others I do not. I try to find the best way I can to explain how I feel. I don't expect anyone to agree with me.

Setanta,

I never have liked dogs. Always been a cat person.

Now you've done it!

Figured I might as well. :wink: At least I am telling the truth!

Here's a quarter, go call someone who cares.

As i've pointed out in these fora for years, cats is the spawn of SATAN . . .

Yeah, I didn't figure you for a cat person.

Certainly not . . . i have my self-respect, you know . . .

Yer dead, dog breath.

Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat,
I love you....

Yes I Do....

You and your pussycat nose!



I actually made an audible GASP when I read that post at the top.

I ain'ta skeert a no little pussy . . .

I, she said icily, am a HUGE Wabbit...if you were referring to me.

I was just throwing out an indecent line such as anyone familiar with Are You Being Served and Mrs Slocombe might recognize . . . and run with . . .

Momma- Whether the bible was said to have been written by God himself, of "God breathed and God inspired", I believe that you are splitting hairs.
If Christians base their faith on this bible, than how can a Christian reconcile the fact that some of these "God breathed and God inspired" words were summarily discarded, while others are held in great esteem, and used as divine documentation for certain beliefs.

I am not interested in looking at links to opinions written by other people. I want to understand how YOU have come to the conclusions that you have, and how you can reconcile these inconsistencies.

Phoenix,

I can address these things one at a time as they are brought up. As I said, some things in the OT that are not followed are the old ritual and hygiene laws. Is there something in particular you mean?

If you are talking about the abortion question earlier, I still believe God is against it. That one verse that tells me God knew me before I was knit in the womb tells me a lot. Now, can this actually be said that it proves God is against abortion? Admittedly, it does not. The Bible does not actually say that abortion is a sin.

So, I can try to explain things seemingly discarded if you has some particulars in mind.

Momma- I think that you have missed my point. You stated that:



If so, why was ANYTHING discarded?

I gotcha. LOL. I am not saying it is discarded, Phoenix. Everything in the Bible is for teaching. I am not the best to explain at the laws concerning ritual and hygiene as to exactly why they changed.

At the very, very least the Old Testament is ripe with history. When you say discarded, I think thrown away as to no value. Are we thinking along the same lines?

If these rules are not followed, then they are, by definition, discarded. If, as you have said:




If so, why are the rituals and hygiene laws any less relevent than the rest of the bible? It certainly sounds like the Christian powers-that-be took an a la carte attitude towards the bible, and did a bit of cherry picking!

Momma, sorry, you can't have it both ways.

Phoenix,

I understand what you are saying. But, just as in any society things progress (well, they are supposed to anyway). Some things become more necessary and some things become less necessary.

We change laws all the time. I would have to do some research to get the complete story about why and how these laws were changed and if you just tell me you would like to know, I will get right on it.

But, the basic have not changed. The Ten Commandments, The Beatitudes, etc., these are all still the same as they were. In the Old Testament it was God and man and nothing inbetween. In the New Testament, it is God, Jesus Christ, and man. Christ became the intercessory for us so we did not have to suffer the same punishments.

The Bible is not a book written by God or any one person. It is really sixty six individual books, written on three continents, in three different languages, over a period of approximately 1500 years, by more that 40 authors from many walks of life. Some people may believe that it is one book, but it is not. However, it remains one unified book from beginning to end despite many authors.

God dealt with sinful peoples in His way, not the way that man determines to be right or just. He provided His Son for our redemption and to take on the sins of man. This is a loving God. In the Old Testament we read of sacrificial atonements for sin. The arrival of Jesus Christ changed all of these things. The Saviour was promised to us by scripture in the Old Testament. God's love is, therefore, revealed in the New Testament. That does not mean that it was not present in the Old Testament.

2 Timothy 3:1-4 reads....

1  This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3  Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4  Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God

It seems that we are in the last days.

I tell ya, the rest of sure hope so . . . we can't wait for y'all to rapture up outta here, and leave the rest of us in peace . . .

Are you referring to the fact that said pussy had to be left in the temporary care of a cousin in Scotland?