Re: [asa] Coulter, and science

In a message dated 7/11/2006 2:27:05 PM Eastern Standard Time,
mrb22667@kansas.net writes:
Quoting RFaussette@aol.com:

> Jesus did not change/challenge/reject biblical law. He wrote it on his
heart.
>
> By writing the law on his heart, he made the temple sacrificial system
> obsolete. he did not make conservative biblical law obsolete.
>

Hindsight may make this easy to declare, but you sure could have fooled first
century rabbis and teachers of the law. Witness the disputes described in
Acts surrounding the entrance of the gentiles into the faith. I don't think
Jews would have applied anything like the term 'conservative' (if they had
some equivalent term) to Jesus.

--merv
Religion is a discipline bound to an ethic. Jesus did not change the ethic.
He demonstrated the discipline that would write the ethic on one's heart.
Whenever he found a gentile displaying faith, he rightfully lauded their faith in
contrast with the hypocrisy of the priestly caste in Jerusalem. But he never
liberalized the ethic. In fact, by prohibiting divorce he raised women above
their Jewish station and embraced a greater conservatism.

rich faussette

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Received on Tue Jul 11 20:46:09 2006