Christianity makes no sense?

Question

If God did write the Old Testament, how is it possible that he..er...revoked it? Did God change his mind? Did he make a mistake? Di he lie when he said many times in the Old Testament that his words there will be eternal? What part of "eternal covenant" allows it to be eliminated?

He "fulfilled" it? There was nothing to fulfill. The covenant was that the Jews would be God's sacred nation, and as such they must keep the commandments. It says explicitly that the covenant will not end even if they don't keep them.

There were no laws until God gave Moses the Bible. There was no covenant until then. From that point forward, the laws were made eternal, as is found countless times in the Bible. STOP AVOIDING THE QUESTION.

Answer 1

"This is an eternal law for all generations"

(Exodus 12:14, 12:17, 12:43, 27:21, 28:43, Leviticus 3:17, 7:36, 10:9, 16:29, 16:31, 16:34, 17:7, 23:14, 23:21, 23:31, 23:41, 24:3, Numbers 10:8, 15:15, 19:10, 19:21, 18:23, 35:29, Deuteronomy29:28)

This concept is mentioned in the Torah no less than 24 times. It is absurd to accept the Divine origin of the Torah yet deny it's eternal relevance.

Answer 2

Jesus and the Mosaic Law


Many Christians are perplexed when they confront the issue of the Mosaic Law. How binding is the Law on the Christian? Some have said that Jesus abolished the Law of Moses. I would have to disagree, based on the following passage spoken by Jesus Himself:

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)
Some have suggested that by "fulfil," Jesus meant "abolish." Indeed, "abolish" is one meaning of "fulfil," but it is also the only meaning of "destroy." So if He had meant "abolish," He might as well have said, "I am not come to abolish, but to abolish." We can assume, therefore, that Jesus meant, "to develop the full potentialities of" when He said "fulfil."

So why then do Christians not observe the Mosaic Law? The answer is that they do observe parts, but not all of it. Some parts of the Law were meant to be temporary, while others were intended to be permanent. This is seen in the fact that before Moses, the ancient Jews were not bound to the ritual commands (except circumcision). If the Mosaic Law was not meant to be temporary, then either God changes or the God of the righteous men and women before Moses was a different god. But this is absurd. We know that the God of Abraham was the God of Moses, and that He is our God today. The coming of Christ made parts of the Mosaic law unnecessary.


In order to understand this, we must realize that the Law is made up of three parts: ceremonial, civil, and moral.


The ceremonial law related specifically to Israel's worship. Since its primary purpose was to point to the coming Savior, Jesus made it unnecessary. He did not abolish it, in the sense of destroying it; He fulfilled it. Nowhere do we read that Jesus thought that the ceremonial law was wrong. The principles behind the ceremonial law are still applicable to us today, that is, the principles of worshipping and serving a holy God.


The civil law prescribed rules for the Israelites' daily living. These laws separated the Jews from the Gentiles, and gave the Gentiles the example of how a holy people should live. Since much was given to the Jews, much was expected. But God gave a new covenant in Christ, and there is now no distinction to be made between Jew and Gentile. We are still to follow the requirements of this law as God's people, but the punishments are not for any nation to impose on its people, because we are no longer separated by nations but by God's grace (Christians and non-Christians).


The moral law is basically the Ten Commandments. We are still bound by these laws, not for salvation, but to live a holy life. Jesus not only desired that His followers adhere to these commandments, He wished that they would go above and beyond them. He said, "Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: but I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment..." He desired not only an outward observance of these laws, but an inward observance as well.


So we see that the parts of the Law that have been rendered obsolete are those that contain ordinances. An ordinance is either a memorial of something that has already passed or a type of something in the future. The Old Testament laws containing ordinances were not meant to be permanent. There are no ordinances in the Ten Commandment Law.


Now, we must remember that following rules and regulations will not get us into heaven. It is only through the blood of Jesus that we can see heaven. But if we love Him, we will keep His commandments.

Answer 3

Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity. Too absurd for belief, too impossible to convince, and too inconsistent for practice, t renders the heart torpid or produces only atheists or fanatics. As an engine of power, it serves the purpose of despotism, and as ameans of wealth, the avarice of priests, but so far as respects the good of man in general it leads to nothing here or hereafter. [Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason]

Answer 4

Christianity makes sense if you accept the idea that 'God' is a vindictive, manic-depressive megalomaniacal schizophrenic who never likes the scripts he writes, who's always changing his mind, who was so inferior at creation that he accidentally created evil beings, and so ignorant he didn't know 'Satan' was plotting against him ... a man-made 'God' who lets his children burn in hell for eternity because he got in a snit over how his creations exercise free will. If you can wrap your mind around a psychotic, spiteful and cruel deity like that, Christianity will come into clear focus for you.

Answer 5

Welcome to the wonders of having faith!

There are many aspects of Christianity and scripture that seem to toy with our thinking. And, that's just what makes it so exciting. If everything was very complex, but completely understandable, then it would be like Algebra! YUCK!

It's the mixture of (apparently) paradoxes and contradictions and mysteries that make a life of study in faith so interesting.

It's easy to disassemble something. But, it takes time, experience, a little trial-and-error, determination, and especially perseverance to reassemble and understand something as all-encompassing as your faith.

Keep working at it!

Answer 6

God was drunk when he wrote the Old Testament. He later sobered up, but it was too late. So he decided to rectify his error by impregnating a human and killing her son.

As all of us would under similar circumstances...

Answer 7

God loves us so much that he send Jesus Christ to die for our sins because he saw no one could keep the laws of the old testament. God is unchangeable.

Answer 8

god didn't write the bible, man did.

christians believe that the so-called "old testament" is a prefiguration of the new testament.

Answer 9

The covenant is eliminated when it is fulfilled. Christ fulfilled it.

Answer 10

Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not percieve: For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.