tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13358611.post1725827369033405190..comments2023-10-25T14:20:11.408-05:00Comments on RHOBLOGY: Different authoritiesRhologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14245825667079220242noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13358611.post-44171825709989257792008-10-16T07:47:00.000-05:002008-10-16T07:47:00.000-05:00Hi Epstein,Welcome! Please feel free to comment a...Hi Epstein,<BR/><BR/>Welcome! Please feel free to comment anytime. You'll find that my comment policy is very open to disagreement and argument. Just keep your language at least semi-clean, don't link to smut, and don't make comments about my friends or pastor or family and you can say whatever you want.<BR/><BR/><I>I'm trying to figure out why Christians don't follow their Old Testament.</I><BR/><BR/>We DO follow it, actually. A great deal of it is fulfilled in Christ, and we follow it by believing and being saved by Him and His atoning sacrifice.<BR/><A HREF="http://rhoblogy.blogspot.com/2008/01/breakin-law-breakin-law.html" REL="nofollow">Read this</A>; it should help.<BR/>You are right to say that Jesus didn't abolish the OT. He fulfilled a great deal of it, and will fulfill the rest later. And He, being God, is the perfect interpreter of the OT. When He says that all foods are clean (Mark 7), then they're clean. <BR/>Also, remember that many of the OT commands were given specifically to OT Israel, for reasons specific to their situation that don't necessarily apply today.<BR/><BR/>If you have more questions or comments on that, why not post them on that thread I linked to here? I'll be happy to deal with them.<BR/><BR/><BR/><I>I also think a lot of your faith is based on your geography. </I><BR/><BR/>Actually, though I grew up in a semi-liberal church (barely Christian), I was a hard agnostic/soft atheist for 3 years.<BR/>I am a Christian b/c God was pleased to reveal Himself to me and show me the truth of Him and the reality and evil of my sin. <BR/>Are you aware that there are numerically more Christians in China than in the US, as of right now?<BR/>That there are more Christian per capita in S Korea than in the US? <BR/><BR/>At any rate, a statement like this doesn't speak at all to whether a particular worldview is true, just what one would probably be, statistically speaking. But there are always exceptions.Rhologyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14245825667079220242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13358611.post-3173641155528970262008-10-16T07:38:00.000-05:002008-10-16T07:38:00.000-05:00Found your site via Google search.....I'm trying t...Found your site via Google search.....I'm trying to figure out why Christians don't follow their Old Testament.<BR/><BR/>Your Jesus said he didn't abolish the OT and he did change some of the laws (food restrictions, eye-for-an-eye justice) but the law is still there.....why dont Christians follow the OUT closer?<BR/><BR/><BR/>P.S. I also think a lot of your faith is based on your geography. Surely a well ttravleed man like yourself recognizes that if you were born in Japan youd probably be a Buddhist or if your were born in Afghanistan youd be a Muslim.....as it is, you grew up in the southern US so your a Christian.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com