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John Roberts (jroberts@nosp.ionet.net) wrote:
: Michael David Jones wrote in message <71g3c8$1s4s@alumni.rpi.edu>...

: >>>Of course it's the Old Testament. The question is whether you take the
: >>>*whole* Old Testament that seriously or just the parts that support
: >>>your opinions.

: >>All of it.

: >So you keep kosher and don't sleep with your wife during her period?


: No, I don't keep kosher, and I do sleep with my wife during her period.  In
: terms of punishment, those are some of the more minor laws I break on a
: daily basis.  That doesn't make the laws themselves wrong, or that I don't
: take them seriously, it only means that I'm not perfect.

     Interesting.  Most of the discussion on this topic that I've
read previously centers on Jesus releasing Christians from certain
of the ceremonial Old Testament obligations like circumcision and
keeping Kosher.  But John seems to be saying that the laws and
obligations are still there, but he knows he'll be forgiven so he
needn't even try to stop violating them.  Or am I misunderstanding
something?