[thechat] Mythology was comics

[deke]

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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