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Originally Posted by Lurikeen
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As a Christian I take issue with your haphazard remark which doesn't resemble Christian theology at all since the time our first councils rejected the errors of Marcion way back in the second century AD. In case you don't know, Marcion and his followers rejected the Old Testament scriptures and taught that the "God" of the New Testament destroyed the God of the "Old Testament." Any way, you are simply mistaken.
The fact of the matter is that so-called "modern Christians" do NOT ignore most of the Old Testament. Rather, they understand that the Old Testament records civil laws, among many other things, that pertained to the ancient Israelite civilization and had never applied outside the borders of that nation. Even the Jews themselves see their civil laws bounded within the borders of their own nation. For instance, we don't read about the Jews of the Diaspora taking the civil laws of Jerusalem, lets say, to cities in ancient Persia where they were dispersed. Another example, Jews aren't recorded stoning people to death in any civilization outside their own homeland.
By the time of Christianity, most Christians see Jesus as being the fulfillment of the law of Moses. So Christians do not adopt the civil laws or the dietary laws of the Jews. The only laws adopted are those spelled out by Jesus Himself regarding the ten commandments and those laws handed down by the Apostles of Jesus.
So no. "Most modern Christians" do not "Choose to ignore most of the old testament" as you erroneously claim.
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Oh, is that the reasoning they went with to try and wiggle out of Old Testament laws? "They don't apply to us because we aren't Jews of the Kingdom of Israel" The fact of the matter is, in early days of Christianity, most OT lifestyle laws were unpalatable to Europeans and were thrown out, and scholars came up with your favorable, convenient interpretation to fill the gap, in the same way that facilitated the Catholic acceptance of evolution.
I'm not attacking your faith, but I don't think you can tell me with a straight face that the OT accounts of everything about Adam and Eve / Exodus / Genesis haven't been made so watered down and preposterous by modern understanding and poor theology so as to be a complete joke. I think very little of what the OT once was remains in the core identity of Christianity, and every time they bend the scripture to adapt it to a new century it comes a little closer to breaking.