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Do you realize that the Old Testament is not binding for Christians as it was replaced by New Testament?
Least you could do is some research
Actually, you are wrong. In the New Testament Jesus says he is there to restore the old laws not change them. And most Christians that I know teach and follow the old testament along with the new testament. The least you could do is some actual research.
Matthew 5:17:20 17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. 19 Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven."
No. New Testament superseded Old Testatement, hence the description 'old'.
Christians are bound by New Testament, Jews are bound by Old Testament.
Nope, and proud of it!! But I still seem to know more than most Christians, who can't even grasp the most simple of Biblical laws.
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Being able to quote passages from the Bible is not a requirement to being a good Christian.
Where did I say that was a requirement? I don't care if you can quote passages or not, as a good Christian (or Jew/Muslim/etc) need only be good in their heart. I don't know what kind of church you attend/ed, but my synagogue stresses the principles of G-d's love and tikkun olam above all else - one doesn't even need to understand Hebrew, as long as you understand these basic principles. Nowhere does G-d or Jesus preach about hate, intolerance, inequality, or persecuting one group of "sinners" over all others. Can you prove me wrong?
What's even more hilarious is how little most Chrstians in the US actually know about the Bible. In a poll a few years ago, only 40% could name more than 4 of the 10 commandments. And here's a cracker: 12% of Americans thought that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
"America is simultaneously the most professedly Christian of the developed nations and the least Christian in its behavior."
That's simply because you do not understand that by indentifying themselves by Christians most people mean being raised in and subscribing to Christian morality and not that much actually attending masses or taking part in religious activities. That's why it is so funny when gay lobby talks about religious nuts who are against gay marriage LOL
But yet that wasn't what this thread was about was it, nice deflection but the link to this book was in the OP's first post, ignore the evidence as usual it's only valid if the hypocrites post it
Actually you seem to be ignoring the evidence that this book doesn't even support the OP's outrageous claims.
Lived what? A child of a mixed orientation marriage of a straight mother and a gay father?
Isn't that what the 'pray away the gay' types are trying to push gays and lesbians to do? Marry a straight person?
Yup, in fact I've heard people suggest that on this very forum... I recall one poster even saying "things were better in the old days, when gay people just married the opposite sex & were happy with that." First of all, they most likely were NOT happy - second of all, I agree that is more damaging to a child than same-sex parenting.
They debate over the logistics and so on, but in reality they just want homosexuals to disappear altogether. Talk about living in a dream world, LOL.
I don't know. New Jersey had pretty bad experience with gay governor who turned out to be a proper dope. If someone did some back ground check on him New Jersey would avoid total embarassment and expenditures for premature change of state government
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