[thechat] Mythology was comics
deke
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Wed May 23 14:38:35 CDT 2001
On 23 May 2001, at 8:59, Ben Dyer posted a message which said:
> But these commandments you mention here were laid out during the Old
> Testament of the Bible. Many of the things that were God-ordained during
> the Old Testament (including the slaughter of a lamb to cleanse sins, not
> trimming the corners of the face and binding the Word to your forehead -
> the actual Scriptures for these escape me now) were effectively negated (if
> you believe in Christianity) by Christ's death on the cross. These were
> all signs of respect to God or as atonement for sins, which, as the New
> Testament lays out, are no longer necessary because Christ's death now
> atones these sins.
That's not what Jesus said.
"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets:
I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil." - Matthew 5:17
deke
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