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Originally Posted by Willravel
Jesus couldn't have been more clear about the OT:
"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 5:17-19 (KJV)
In other words, according to Jesus, everything in the Old Testament—all of those bizarre laws and the petulant god—counts. Only someone that ignores the clear words of Jesus could possibly discount anything the OT.
So, bearing this fact in mind, this crazed man may every well have been following the rules of the OT which were endorsed by Jesus as the law of god. All we need now is the motive. If he killed her for being an atheist, he's in the clear (2 Chronicles 15:12-13).
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Originally Posted by Willravel
He was a Christian in the same way any other Christian is Christian. As for the "failed Christian" thing, I could make a pretty strong argument that the Pope is a failed Christian. Or Martin Luther. Or Jesus. Or god the father.
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Will, you sound like one of those Pharisees and other religious leaders in the Gospels who did not believe in Jesus and who were always trying to catch him in a dogmatic technicality, so that they could discredit him and his teachings. (For example, they admonished Jesus and his disciples for not practicing the ceremonial washing before meals. In another example, they tried to condemn Jesus for doing healing works on the Sabbath, the holy day of rest.) For the most part, Jesus refused to play their legalistic games. He had contempt for them, saying unto to them things like, "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness."