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Brian wrote: "As to the original question: as far as I know, in Christian Theology, the appearance of Jesus fulfilled the need to observe the original Judaic covenant with God - and that includes the various decrees in Exodus and Leviticus - so that it was no longer necessary to observe them."...

thanks and i'll keep looking into it Thanks, JJM, tho' I'm still pretty confused on this subject. I'll look at that thread. As you probably have figured out, I'm not well versed in the "Old Testament". You're right when you mentioned that my interest was because of my friend. And it's not...

a book recommendation Interestingly, one reason I wound up perusing (and posting) on this site lately is because of a friends' spiritual dilemma. She was raised strict fundamentalist Baptist and I was raised in a non-religious household. It's very difficult to break through the faith we were...

In response to JJM: I will be honest here, and say that I culled those passages from Spong's "Rescusing the Bible from Fundamentalism". I wanted to see what peoples' responses might be and from this, I thought, we could have some discussion. I'd haven't had the time to check what you've...

As, I believe, the last person in the other thread to write "the Bible is full of contradictions", I feel compelled to respond. First, I feel it is important to restate that I do not think that finding "errancy" in the bible is CAUSE for non-believing. The last post, below, is an example...

I'm seriously confused about Christian observance and non-observance of the Levitican laws. It seems to me that some laws are observed or quoted when it suits the needs of a particular agenda. I am sorry I am unable to quote passages in the NT where Jesus speaks on "the Law". (I don't have...

another two cents Hi, I'm new here and happy to find this site. I'm in the midst of reading Spong's "Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism", Funk (& the Jesus Seminar's) "The Five Gospels:What did Jesus Really Say?", and "Christianity without God" (!) by Lloyd Geering. I'm sure I'm leaving...