[ SECRET POST #2650 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2650 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Questions there's never a good time to ask.

[pantswarrior]

I totally hear you here, as a Christian myself... it drives me nuts when people don't acknowledge that the roots are in the Jewish faith and the Jewish law, and just pretend those don't exist - or pick and choose which parts apply to them and which don't, which is even stupider.

The way it seems to me (and I am not a theologian, just someone who has read the entirety of the Bible multiple times and gone to church most of my life, both a conservative church when I was young and a liberal church currently) is that one of the reasons for Jesus to come and shake things up was because there was too much focus on "the letter of the law" as opposed to "the spirit of the law". The Pharisees and such were going around making up severe restrictions as expansion or misinterpretation of basic laws laid down in the days of Moses, which no longer really applied so much because society had changed. (For example, the "no boiling a calf in its mother's milk" or whatever the exact quote is - that referred to a specific ritual from another religion. That somehow turned into not eating milk and meat during the same meal, even though the meal was not a ritual sacrifice in any way...)

In short, people were interpreting religious law in such a way that it was IMPOSSIBLE for anyone to actually live a lawful life. And Jesus came along and basically said "Okay, I get that you're trying to be good people and make sure that everyone else is good people too, but you're going too far. Look at things like intent. Don't be a hypocrite. And by the way, even though my Father has called the Jews to be his special people, he loves ALL of his creation, not just them, and wants them all to know him."

So as he said himself at one point, he wasn't there to get rid of the old law. He was there to try to explain that they didn't need to be so strict about interpretation, and that it was supposed to be inclusive, not exclusive.

So while Christianity sort of supercedes Jewish law, at least for those Christians who are not also Jewish (and there are some), Christians who ignore the Old Testament are missing out on an awful lot of relevant lessons. The exact laws may not apply so much, but the general principles and ideas and morals to be found there put a lot of things about Christianity into perspective.

tl;dr: Christians SHOULD acknowledge the Old Testament and that Jesus was Jewish, you're absolutely right. But Christianity is not simply an addition to Judaism, rather a different interpretation and approach to the same basic end.

Re: Questions there's never a good time to ask.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I love your explanation - and actually, it is in line with how I view Abrahamic law anyway. (That a lot of the food laws, for instance, were based on situations that no longer apply.) This makes sense to me.

Re: Questions there's never a good time to ask.

[diet_poison]

This is a good comment and you should feel good.

Re: Questions there's never a good time to ask.

[(Anonymous)]

way way way late but +ten thousand talents to this whole post. :)