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Originally Posted by PYroMaNiaC
Lets go back. I stated originally that the Bible makes no sense. That still holds true whether you use the "proto evangelium" or the Gospel according to Mathew, Mark , Luke and John. The fact remains that God contradicts himself in the Bible.
Let's look at your earliest mention of the Gospel, for example. If God already has the answer to humanity's problem in his son, why take so long? If he already knows what his son is going to teach, why not teach it himself? Why put forth two differnt sets of rules? Makes no sense.
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Gal 3:23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus
What the Law taught mankind was God's standard and the impossibility of a person to keep it. The Law taught us that we are sinners and we can't save ourselves. The whole basis of man made religions is earning approval or appeasement from a god/gods/godesses. The law leads us to Christ because it amplifies our need for a Savour.
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Originally Posted by PYroMaNiaC
Also, these references that you make to the earliest Gospel do not refer to Christ. They tell us what is coming. They are predictions that will be fullfilled when Christ arrives. If God is all knowing, then the predictions should be pretty accurate, you'd think. I stand by my statement that Christianity is based on the New Testament. The fact that the New Testament was predicted shouldn't come as a surprise.
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OK Christianity is based on the New Testament. That doesn't make the Old Testament irrelevant. Look at the amount of quotations from the Old Testament in the New Testament. The writers of the New Testament understood who God was in light of the Old Testament as well as through their contact with the Son of God. They found no conflict between the two. It's like people who protray Jesus as some sort of cross between a marshmellow and a hippy. They read what he says about love and what great love he showed the world but, ignore the fact that he taught about judgement and hell more than heaven. Moreover, he is going to be that Judge.