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Daggum! My first post didn't work and it was super long! Gah! Well, essentially I said that I was saddened by the ignorance of biblical principles swirling around and through this conversation. I won't go back and list the errors again (:/) but mostly no one was making fun of ot law, as mr. Jacobs was simply attempting to understand the religious customs old from the confines of modern culture and thinking (which can be humorous). But honestly, ot law was ridiculous. It was given by god much the same way a set of rules would be given to a kindergarten class. The rules r meticulous and excrutiatingly detailed and obvious (wait to speak ur turn, wash ur hands b4 lunch, keep ur clothes on...) but to the kkindergartener they are foreign because he has not yet developed a paradigm that encompases those ideas. Its the same with us and god. He knows what's best. But when christ came he gave us life and the ability to have a personal relationship with our creator and by that relationship we gain the understanding necessary to free us from the rigidity of the law. The whole point of jesus' coming was to release us from the law and usher us into a relatipnship versus a religion. Vonskippy is right. Religion is a scam. It is nothing more than humans in our contrived understanding attempting to reign in the divine. But God is not a scam. And his love is not and it vannot be contained. That's all I'm saying.
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Also, I love everyone's use of the word pragmatic! It's like one person said it and then everyone was like "well, pragmatically... well I would say that pragmatically speaking... ah yes, how pragmatic of u sir..." haha! It seems like it should be a monty python sketch!
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