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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
I thought both books were inspired by or even written by God. No?
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There is a huge problem here for Christian social conservatives--because Christianity IS supposed to be predicated not only on the NT, but on the Gospel specifically. Which as Azure said, is mostly about forgiveness, love, etc.--not the fire-and-brimstone wrathful God of the OT. But the problem is that all of these social-conservative rules come either from the OT or from Paul's letters--or some other source which would be apocryphal if it didn't happen to be bound into the same book as the Gospel. Jesus himself wasn't super-worried about gay marriage, adultery, all these things. Don't forget that a central story of his is the "let him who is without sin cast the first stone" business, in which he stands up to righteous men in order to protect a prostitute.
The Gospel isn't a great source-text for social conservatives--and for that reason they often turn to OT texts, and then try to resolve the contradiction later.