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- From: strom@Watson.Ibm.Com (Rob Strom)
- Subject: Re: Reconciling OT with NT
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.030911.25233@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 03:09:11 GMT
- References: <1992Nov15.024945.4805@rigel.econ.uga.edu> <1992Nov14.214406.23543@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov14.214406.23543@doug.cae.wisc.edu>, mccullou@cae.wisc.edu (Mark McCullough) writes:
- |> How to reconcile the Old Testament God with the New Testament God, (they
- |> do appear to be quite different):
- |>
- |> He mellowed.
- |>
- |> :)M^2
- |>
- Not from the Jewish perspective.
-
- From the Jewish perspective, the "OT" God judged
- us for our actions, not our beliefs, and had
- mercy on the righteous of all nations.
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- The NT God judges us for our beliefs only, and
- casts the unbelievers into an eternal fiery hell ---
- the place of wailing and gnashing of teeth.
-
- I agree that these are quite different,
- but it doesn't look like mellowing to me.
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