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@The Reptilian Jew
I'm guessing that he means homosexuality, since Jesus never mentions it at all. He does state though that he wants to uphold mosaic laws, which have this one short line about "men shouldn't lie with men like with women" (whatever that means exactly). He has a point there, but he fails to adress the other mosaic laws that we christians don't care for either, like not eating shellfish or not wearing mixed clothes. Religious texts have to be interpreted in the context of the time WE live in, not the time Jesus lived in. Or to be more general, stop trying to read the bible as some form of literal truth, it just doesn't work Adam!
Of course, this logic falls apart when you only consider Jesus of Nazareth a human being, and claims of his divinity either self-agrandizement, or attributed by his partisan followers. 'cause Judea wasn't short on people claiming to be the messiah, or divine. People just latched onto the guy who preached the Golden Rule instead of the tweaker who claimed eating feces would make you strong.
There's a great deal that's mentioned in the Bible from the inheritance of property to the gathering of eggs, yet when those things come up fundies say that Jesus replaced the old laws. You can't have it both ways: if you're a Christian, either you take the laws in the Hebrew Scriptures as valid or you take the Hebrew Scriptures as a pointer to the coming of Christ. You don't get to pick and choose as you feel like it.
There's a great deal that's mentioned in the Bible from the inheritance of property to the gathering of eggs, yet when those things come up fundies say that Jesus replaced the old laws. You can't have it both ways: either you take the laws in the Hebrew Scriptures as valid or you take the Hebrew Scriptures as a pointer to the coming of Christ. You don't get to pick and choose as you feel like it.
So you use circular logic. Plus your book says bats are birds, rabbits chew curd, a woman was made from man's rib, etc
According to some interpretations of the Bible, Jesus came along in order to set aside all the old laws and covenants and laws and replace it with new ones, so, according to that interpretation, this argument is 100% wrong. Of course, the Bible is so unclear and self-contradictory, other sects of Christianity have a different interpretation, which makes this argument 100% right. But that only leads to a bigger problem for Christianity - the fact that a book supposedly written or dictated by a supposedly omniscient, omnipotent deity is so unclear that two diametrically opposed positions can both be accepted as correct by different groups of followers.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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