--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > <snip> > > > When the Christian right decides that they will follow God's law > > > and stone adulterers instead of getting stoned WITH adulterers > > > (my personal preference) they can claim to use that old book as > > > a moral guide. > > > > FWIW, Christians are not bound by Jewish Law. They > > may draw moral lessons from the Hebrew Scriptures > > but are not obligated to follow any of its > > commandments but the Big 10. > > Yeah. Authoritarian fundamentalist Christianity tends to adopt > some of the dogmatic and contemporarily popular harsh Mosaic >laws and fails to recognize the distinct [subtle and gross] break > with them that Christianity introduced. > > FWIW - This is some of what Paul said in making that distinction:
Too bad it's so anti-Semitic. > 2 Corinthians 3:13-16 > > 13 We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to > keep the Israelites from gazing at it while the radiance was > fading away. > > 14 But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil > remains when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed, > because only in Christ is it taken away. > > 15 Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their > hearts. > > 16 But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. > > Romans 7:6 > > 6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein > we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not > in the oldness of the letter. > > Hebrews 7:18-19 > > 18 For there is verily a disannulling [voiding completely] of > the commandment going before for the weakness and > unprofitableness thereof. > > 19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a > better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God. > > [words added in parentheses -jrm]
