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BentNotTwisted · 01-02-2004, 01:42 PM

You'll have to excuse me, I'm about as far from a biblical scholar as you can get. There's something that's been bothering me lately about the Christian religion. Christ was born a Jew and seriously studied the Torah. He understood it very well and decided the belief system based on it need some changes. So he came up with his own system of belief to replace it. Yes, yes, he performed miracles along the way and preached his new found belief as well as sending out disciples to continue the preaching after he died. The thing is, Christ had major complaints about the Torah and the religion that sprang from it and wanted a break from it. 2000 years later Christians still (essentially) read the 'Christianized' version of the Torah and incorporate it into their religion. Shouldn't these people have scrapped the Old Testament and just built a religion based on Christ's word? Since they didn't aren't they just some Jewish/Christian combination? Shouldn't the religion becalled Christish or Jewtian or something?

I'm not trying to put down Christianity here. It has a lot of positive influence on the world we live in. I just need some understanding here.

01-02-2004, 01:42 PM	#1 (permalink)
BentNotTwisted Optimistic Skeptic Location: Midway between a Beehive and Centennial	Why do Christians use the old Testament as part of their religion? You'll have to excuse me, I'm about as far from a biblical scholar as you can get. There's something that's been bothering me lately about the Christian religion. Christ was born a Jew and seriously studied the Torah. He understood it very well and decided the belief system based on it need some changes. So he came up with his own system of belief to replace it. Yes, yes, he performed miracles along the way and preached his new found belief as well as sending out disciples to continue the preaching after he died. The thing is, Christ had major complaints about the Torah and the religion that sprang from it and wanted a break from it. 2000 years later Christians still (essentially) read the 'Christianized' version of the Torah and incorporate it into their religion. Shouldn't these people have scrapped the Old Testament and just built a religion based on Christ's word? Since they didn't aren't they just some Jewish/Christian combination? Shouldn't the religion becalled Christish or Jewtian or something? I'm not trying to put down Christianity here. It has a lot of positive influence on the world we live in. I just need some understanding here. __________________ IS THAT IT ???!!! Do you even know what 'it' is? When the last man dies for just words that he said... We Shall Be Free Last edited by BentNotTwisted; 01-02-2004 at 02:19 PM..