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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Charliss who wrote (4458)	12/9/2000 11:36:37 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

That is a very coherent response. I understand that people find value in this stuff. But, IMO, there is a completely different philosophical orientation in the NT as opposed to OT. For me, it is so different that it is difficult to believe that they describe the same set of phenomena. One of the frustrating things for me is that the personal interpretations of some really smart people of good will make sense of the work in toto. That's great that people can do this. However such Grace is hardly obviously manifest in people as a generic class. People can and do find some really obnoxious behaviors that they end up justifying using various texts in both the OT and NT. For me, this created a need to find a totally different philosophy. As a philosophy, it is entirely too easy to do this from this source. While what you say is generally true about the OT vs NT, Revelations has yet a third tone. Gone is the love and acceptance of the underdogs replaced with more fire and brimstone, and surreal descriptions of the future. As a person who finds compassionate interaction of value, allowing 144,000 out of 9 billion people to survive seems a pathetic and frail hope for the rest of us.