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TreasonousBastard

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7. Here's one place to start...
Tue Aug 26, 2014, 12:08 PM
Aug 2014
http://www.christianbiblereference.org/faq_OldTestamentLaw.htm

If we were to include all the "law" of the OT, Christians wouldn't mix milk and meat and would go to temple on Saturdays. We'd be Jews with crucifixes on our prayer shawls.

Some of the history is just history, and stories like Moses escaping Egypt probably have some truth to them, but are no more or less meaningful than how the Great Wall of China was built. There really was a Solomon, btw.

The mythology, though, is probably the sticking point. Rabbis I've talked to tell me they don't take the Garden of Eden as seriously as wingnut Christians do. Jonah could not have lived in the belly of a fish, Job is a mythical figure signifying everyman, and Noah could not have built an ark big enough. And so it goes.

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