"do.rflex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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: > 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
Yea, I like this. Given what we know about people in power doing anything to hold on to power, it's kinda hard to argue that Jesus was not the Jewish Messiah.
