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To: CynicalBear
And notice how the argument is running in the Atlantic comment section.

It's the old shrimp-and-linsey-woolsey argument (Don't bother me with Leviticus!" They seem to have missed everything that 2,000 years of detailed and profoundly significant, reasoned discourse about the levels and kinds of law found in the Hebrew Scriptures: mainly, cultural separation codes, health-safety best practices, the rubrics of ritual conduct, and moral law. They also ignored the fact that New Testament Law superseded Old Testament Law, since the OT law "brought nothing to perfection" (Hebrews 7:19).

The Gay Christians and their allies seem to think they're among the first to realize that, OMG, Christians don't keep kosher. And following upon that, it appears they think they can just take an x-acto knife and a tweezers, extract a couple of verses about shrimp, adulterers and Canaanites, wad them up into a spitball and whap them into somebody's eye, and that settles the argument.

In other words, they argue like a clipart-cartoon fundamentalists.

I think they could probably do better, and --- I don't think I'm alone in saying this --- I'd like to see them try.

33 posted on 07/23/2014 11:32:03 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you" John 6:53)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
>>And notice how the argument is running in the Atlantic comment section.<<

I must confess that I had no idea what you were talking about until I went back and read the comments. I wouldn’t put much thought into the comments about the Old Testament laws. They are obviously made by someone who has only read scripture to denounce Christian beliefs. It’s Satan at his best. It’s his way of working. Make salvation and Christian life appear to be based on man’s actions. It causes people to take their eyes off of God’s grace.

37 posted on 07/23/2014 11:48:13 AM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

“I think they could probably do better, and -— I don’t think I’m alone in saying this -— I’d like to see them try.”

Why? That would just mean that they could flim-flam more people and recruit more children.


41 posted on 07/24/2014 1:57:13 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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