> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Stephen Russell > Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:09 AM > To: ProFox Email List > Subject: Re: [OT] Chaves warms to Obama after character reference from > Castro > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Helio Wakasugui > <[email protected]> wrote: > > The biblical god is certainly a monster. > > > ---------------------- > > The New Testament is very different from the Old Testament version. > So The Lord "AK" <after kids> has a different philosophy much like the > rest of us who changed in our own AK state.
Egads, Stephen, this analogy is totally off base, and Ed and his peanut gallery are going to gang rape you with it, logically. The subject is way too big for me to do it justice in a quick reply, so I'll commit to a serious write up later this week, under a separate subject (this is a wee bit off the original topic). ;) It's easily the subject of a tome of books, let alone an email post. :) Suffice to say that: 1. The God of the OT is the very same God of the NT, in every particular, yea, even the particulars that appear to paint god as moody and unmerciful and everything we believe Jesus isn't; 2. There is no contradiction in the concepts of justice between the OT and the NT--though I perfectly understand how foreign the one appears to the other on the surface to someone who doesn't know how to read Scripture, or have spiritual discernment to help find the real meaning; 3. This subject actually gets to the heart of the creative purpose of God as expressed through the redemptive mission of His Son in human history, and the deeper meaning of the original "fall" (as it is misleadingly called), so it's worth pondering a bit more seriously. - Bob > > -- > Stephen Russell > Sr. Production Systems Programmer > First Horizon Bank > Memphis TN > > 901.246-0159 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
