To you find it unfortunate that the O.T. is part of the Bible. What I mean is if you've read the Bible, there's a lot of questionable behaviour associated with God. From God wiping out almost all of humanity, to Egyptian kids, to basically endorsing slavery, sexism, racism and homophobia.
The N.T. while encouraging repentment, has a softer tone if you will. While Revelations seems a little bleek the general feeling I get from Jesus is of love for humanity, unlike the O.T. God who by name is Jealous, comes off angry, and vengeful.
Now of course it's impossible to discount the O.T. as it prophecizes Jesus, and also gives us important insight into the character of God.
But my question is, as a Christian, would you rather just do away with the majority of the Old Testament and have people focus almost solely on the New Testament, or do you feel they are equally important texts?
2007-05-23
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