Noah's flood wasn't pleasant either, but perhaps you regard that as figurative and allegorical along with the millennial kingdom and acharit ha yamim.
Given the fact that He's the second person of the Triune God, He can do whatever it is that pleases Him, including the creation of a new and everlasting convenant - which IMO is the only hope for the insane asylum known as the Middle East, both in a spiritual and temporal sense.
Putting religion aside for a moment, does anyone believe that this sort of nonsense (from both sides) is productive or logical?
Noah's flood wasn't pleasant either, but perhaps you regard that as figurative and allegorical along with the millennial kingdom and acharit ha yamim.
You're wasting your time. AAABEST's attitude towards the "defunct old testament ritual" is illustrative of the traditional Catholic attitude towards the entire Hebrew Bible. Everything's an allegory and nothing's to be taken literally (and of course, all the prophecies about Israel restored and the Temple rebuilt are "spiritualized" into a "prophecy" about the church!).
No wonder the Catholic Church so promotes evolutionism and higher criticism.
But don't worry. AAABEST's church and all the liturgical supercessionist churches are collapsing in liberalism. Meanwhile, I suggest he simply stay off of threads that disturb him.