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- From: Petch@gvg47.gvg.tek.com (Chuck Petch)
- Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc
- Subject: RE: Reconciling OT to NT
- Message-ID: <Petch-181192095351@oboe.gvg.tek.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 17:53:20 GMT
- Followup-To: talk.religion.misc
- Organization: Grass Valley Group
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- >In article <1992Nov17.173850.14175@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>,
- >arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) wrote:
- >
- > In article <1ead9cINN8a5@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank
- >O'Dwyer) writes:
- >One can not reconcile the OT God with the NT God without throwing out
- >all logic and rationality. That is one of the reasons that I rejected
- >Christianity.
-
- ...stuff deleted...
-
- >If someone points out that OT actions seems to show God not acting good, and
- >you reconcile the OT and NT gods like you do light as particles/waves, you
- >would be saying "God acts good sometimes and acts non-good sometimes". I have
- >not yet seen a theist claim this.
- > --
- >"the bogosity in a field equals the bogosity imported from related areas, plus
- >the bogosity generated internally, minus the bogosity expelled or otherwise
- >disposed of." -- K. Eric Drexler
- >
- > Ken Arromdee (UUCP: ....!jhunix!arromdee; BITNET: arromdee@jhuvm;
- > INTERNET: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu)
-
-
- Ken, if you could give a few specific examples from the Bible, I would be
- glad to respond with some reasonable explanations as to how the OT and NT
- are completely consistent.
-
- In actuality, the OT and the new are intertwined like ivy around a trellis.
- In the NT, we see hundreds of old testament prophecies fulfilled, and we
- see Jesus say to His disciples, "If you love me, you will keep my
- commandments." And at various points in the NT, Jesus affirms all of the
- ten commandments of the OT. Further, Jesus himself, when he died on
- the>cross to pay the penalty for your sin and mine, represented and
- replaced
- the OT Passover sacrifice of a lamb with a final NT sacrifice of His own
- body and blood, which we continue to remember symbolically today when we
- take communion. And communion itself is a continual fulfillment of God's OT
- command to observe the Passover as a sacrament forever... I could go on ad
- infinitum.
-
- If you really want to get into specifics rather than making false general
- statements, I would be glad to discuss it here. Perhaps you would even
- consider reading the Bible yourself in order to verify your statements and
- mine?
-
- Chuck Petch
-