A frustrated observer states: I’ve seen this for many years. When atheists and secularists attack Christianity, they often do so by bringing up the reprehensible passages in the Old Testament. This has always baffled me. Christianity is essentially a New Testament religion that is based primarily on the teachings of Christ. Why do people often bash Christianity by talking about the Old Testament as if they are not aware that Christianity is based on the New Testament?
A frustrated observer states: I’ve seen this for many years. When atheists and secularists attack Christianity, they often do so by bringing up the reprehensible passages in the Old Testament. This has always baffled me. Christianity is essentially a New Testament religion that is based primarily on the teachings of Christ. Why do people often bash Christianity by talking about the Old Testament as if they are not aware that Christianity is based on the New Testament?
People bash Christianity by talking about the Old Testament. And it is true that Christianity is essentially a New Testament religion that is based primarily on the teachings of Christ and his apostles. However, the Apostles used the Old Testament to teach about Lord Jesus Christ, not the New Testament. The New Testament was in the process of being written by the apostles as they were teaching out of the Old Testament. Consider the points that follow.
- For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. (Matthew 5:18 RSV)
- God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. (Romans 8:3-4 RSV)
- For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, indeed it cannot; and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. (Romans 8:5-8)
No comments:
Post a Comment