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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds like you are trying to justify behavior that you know deep down is sinful.  
And yeah many of the specific rules in the old testament were fulfilled by the coming of Christ and is why we aren't Jewish
but the bible is the infallible word of God once you start picking and choosing what is relevant and what isn't you are going down a dangerously slippery slope

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Once Jesus came along, it gave us permission to disregard things in the old testament that we didn't like and to interpret anything else we didn't like however we liked.[/quote]

That's a wrong and unfair interpretation of Jesus' own attitude towards the Old Testament, and I suspect you know it.[/quote]

What did Jesus say about the Old Testament?[/quote]

Famously, he boils down all the rules in the Gospel of Matthew:
Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

There were also multiple incidents where Jesus ignored Old Testament dietary rules (he said, basically, that it's not what goes into your mouth but what comes out of it) and ritual purification rules (Jesus consorted with people considered "unclean").

In sum, Jesus was quite clear about what was important vs. not important in the Old Testament. It's not a case of "pick and choose" at all. [/quote]

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