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greentwiga
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Message 123 of 384 (513893)
07-02-2009 11:17 AM
Reply to: Message 121 by anglagard
01-01-2009 8:26 PM


Re: A Conclusion is Reached
The yaer of living Biblically is an interesting attempt, but misses the point of the New Testament. When the Jews began taking the Christian message to Gentiles, the developed a problem. Many wanted to insist that the gentiles obey all the Jewish laws. Paul opposed them and it was decided that only 4 minimal laws needed to be obeyed. The Christian Jews still had to obey the laws, at least when living among the Jews. This allowed the Christian to live in other cultures, adopting their culture. The main constraint was to care more for the other person than one self. So, if the culture sacrificed children (burn them to Molech, etc) then the Christian couldn't do it because that was not loving to the child. Leviticus is a set of laws for the Jews and interesting as history. As for Genesis, again it is treated as history. After all, Abraham was promised the land. I am not a child of Abraham, so I have no right to the land and I can't obey that covenant (law) in Genesis either.

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greentwiga
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Message 128 of 384 (514055)
07-03-2009 10:44 AM
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07-03-2009 4:46 AM


Laws and covenants were given to specific people or groups of people. Noah was commanded to build an ark. We aren't building arks. The Jews were given a set of laws. The argument in acts was over whether gentiles would be required to follow the laws. All, not just Paul, agreed that the gentiles did not have to follow the Jewish laws. There are other commands in Genesis that we do not follow, such as moving to Canaan (given to Abraham) There is much of Exodus and Numbers, etc that we follow as absolutely as we do Genesis. This would be the history of the Exodus. It is the history of Genesis that is our focus.

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