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Originally Posted by maskedmelon
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Now for Christians it is a bit different. They follow the teachings of their namesake, Christ. Come back with similar language from him (reference books Mathew through John and even the subsequent letters if you are so inclined.
For Christians, Christ's death represented the fulfillment of Jewish prophecy and essentially the absolvement of sin, overturning Levitican law and the need for nasty punishments like stoning for things like adultery.
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This is only a very recent development, with modern evangelicals finding a loophole to further adapt Christianity to an extremely secular culture (compared to how things used to be). Now you don't even need to read or understand the bible and find a uniform conclusion if you don't want to, just love Christ! Is there an icky part of the bible? Who cares! It's all about your love for Christ! And I doubt Catholics would appreciate being characterized as not following Christ's teachings, considering the accounts of Paul, Peter, disciples etc are believed to also be true accounts of what Christ wanted.
I always found it funny the few times I went to bible study with some Evangelical friends in college, that their way of internalizing their religion was sitting around finding ways to interpret and apply parts of the bible to modern life... and reeeaallly stretching it with the interpretations. I had a lot of respect for the good things they would glean from those sessions, but it was just so different from Catholic or Lutheran things I've attended.