Thread: Should Christians Ignore the Old Testament?

Originally Posted by victoryword

Did you read the blog article?

There's an article?

Originally Posted by victoryword

Did you read the blog article?

He was worried that you were going to mention the evils of pork so ignored your article

Originally Posted by victoryword

Did you read the blog article?

Originally Posted by fuego

There's an article?

Two possible responses:

1. You mean that what the first person says is meant to relate to the thread?;
2. We're politicians, we answer the question we wanted to be asked, not the one actualy asked.

"From the Biblical examples given above, we can see that there is no way to vindicate God’s character apart from recognizing the idiomatic expressions inherent within the Hebrew language and culture in which God is said to do that which He merely allows or permits."

Maybe the title of the thread should have been "Should Christians Re-interpret the Old Testament Because the Truth of it Hurts their Feelings?"

Something that many of the popular false grace teachers say is that most of Jesus' teaching during His earthly ministry was just for the Jews and was teaching the law... and they go on to say most (some say all) of what Jesus taught is not for Christians today.

This is straight up heresy by popular TV preachers with large congregations and who make millions of of product sales making merchandise of their gullible followers who don't study God's Word for themselves opting to just take the TV preachers word for it.

What they don't know is that Jesus did keep the law (every jot and tittle, never making a single mistake), but He did not teach the law. He actually taught the Gospel of the Kingdom and He even said the Gospel of the Kingdom must be preached to the entire world and then the end will come.

Jesus and Paul (or any of the other apostles) ever taught the gospel of grace, or the grace revolution, nor did they teach anything that contradicted what Jesus taught.

The Lord did not come to bring peace, but came to to bring division (Luke 12:51), and He is allowing all this false teaching to continue because the people have itching ears wanting to hear what they want to hear, not what the Lord says in His Word which is what the Holy Ghost is saying as the Spirit and the Word are always in perfect agreement.

It's sad that the grace of our Lord is being turned in to lasciviousness as we see more and more people who claim to be Christians... embracing and becoming in agreement with this world and things the Lord has called abomination.

Matthew 7:13,14
Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads unto life, and few there be that find it.

It's even more sad that many who think they are saved will be told by the Lord Jesus to depart because they led a lifestyle of iniquity and refused to confess / repent / forsake their sin because fat cat TV preachers told them "once saved, always saved" which is a lie and is not taught in the New Testament... unless of course you cherry pick which scriptures you choose to believe and consider all others for non-Christians.

And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel (Eze. 14:9)


Here the Old Testament clearly depicts God as a deceiver.



Maybe in your version (which you don't identify btw) and anyway the word is also translated as enticed, prevailed upon, tricked.

That said the situation is that someone in Israel "separates himself from Me, (and) sets up his idols in his heart" (v7) then goes to one of God's prophets enquiring of God and the prophet actually enquires of God for him (which he should not do) so God punishes them both.

Call God bad for punishing evil? Na, don't think I'll do that.