It’s not really a good point, it’s just classic cherrypicking. Jesus himself said in Matthew 5:17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.” so clearly the old testament law should still apply. Christians are just faced with the reality that they could not live their life in accordance with old testament law in todays age, and have therefore chosen to ignore laws from the old testament.
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Habahnow@sh.itjust.works 13 hours agowatched the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZPWbpOnZ-8
Kirk actually has a good point in that those lines are from the old testament, which Christians believe doesn’t apply, and only believe in the new testament. Assuming Kirk is right that it isn’t in the new testament ( the Cambridge speaker doesn’t contest it either, for whatever that is worth). From the the student then pivots to talking about a new testament description along the lines of: Man shall not sleep with man, which he says can be interpreted differently than man and man and could be man and prostitute. Kirk contends that the traditions and interpretations were created during the time that the writings were created, and so there is no loss of translation then, and those understandings have been passed down until down consistently. I will say, i’ve summised this, but it is a lot more of a meandering argument afterwards that is not very interesting to watch.
I feel like the cambridge student shouldn’t have even brought up the lines in videos above because it doesn’t completely apply to Kirk’s religious beliefs. The student studied the bible decently enough to make his point, but it seemed he needed additional context of Kirk’s beliefs to make a strong point against Kirk.
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ch00f@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
those understandings have been passed down until down consistently.
[x] Doubt
Naich@lemmings.world 5 hours ago
If they don’t believe in the old testament, why do they want the 10 commandments put up in schools?
lovely_reader@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
There are no mainstream Christian denominations that don’t believe that the Old Testament is the word of their God, so I’m not sure how the student could have prepared for that particular nonsense juke
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Most Christians believe they live under the New Covenant and not Old Testament law.
You are right that it is widelt accepted as the word of God though.
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 5 hours ago
But it was totally fair for god to do that in the past because morals and ethics… have changed… whoops.
krunklom@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
So.
Here’s an idea.
A cynical take on Christian nationalism pushing for ONLY the things in the bible that are utterly absurd and contrary to modern society.
Like, making an actual push for ONLY the shit that no one would could possibly take seriously.
I’m no bible scholar but I’m sure there’s a bunch of stuff in the New Testament that we could cherry pick as well.
muzzle@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
No one should debate these trolls, they should be answered with stony silence. It works wonders with my 5 years old.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 53 minutes ago
Charlie dodged the point. If morals are objective and unchanging, then it must be the case that either:
Or