re: #518 Aceofwhat?

FTFY. The new testament supercedes the old where there is contradiction. Testament = covenant. Jesus brought a new covenant. Granted, far too many Christians don’t get this…it’s a huge peeve of mine with regard to my fellow christians.

There’s a huge host of things that many Christians ignore from the OT without really being able to point to a specific contradiction from the NT. I don’t know where in the NT it says it’s OK to eat pork or shellfish, to mix meat with dairy or to wear clothes combining multiple fabric threads. Yet they’ll shout about “teh gays” all day and all night.

It seems to me that practicing any religion in a reasonable fashion necessarily involves a certain amount of picking and choosing which parts of it seem more resonant with ethical living and which should - if not explicitly rejected - at least be downplayed to the point of functional irrelevance. Discussions about what those parts are and why pretty much constitute the practice of theology.