fschmidt wrote:Adama wrote:I don't think God requires a segregation of the sexes. If I am mistaken, please cite chapter and verse of the King James Bible. What do they do? They win souls for Christ. That is worth more than all the gold on earth. They go from door to door knocking in order to save people's souls from hell, by giving them the gospel of Christ. There is no higher calling than that.
I follow the Old Testament, so winning souls for Christ is not on my agenda. Moral behavior is. There is nothing in the Bible about whether or not to segregate the sexes, so I have to use my own common sense there. I only mentioned this issue because it was the only visible evidence of behavior on that site. And all moral religions in history that had religious service did segregate the sexes, and this includes Christians.
No one can ban TV from the home. It is a family choice. The pastor is not a ruler. He is a preacher.
Anyone can ban anything, but it just isn't strictly enforceable. Orthodox rabbis are quite effective in banning things like TV just by applying social pressure.
Despite what you might think, Fschmidt, you can not take the OT without the NT. They really are meant to go together.
I just remembered you don't even like God. You're doing this just because you think this is cool. You just want to pretend to be godly while not believing in God. I had completely forgotten that is what you're all about.
Following the OT means believing in the OT. Just like the rest of the Jews of the world, you want to go through all the motions, yet you want to cast God Himself aside. I forgot people like you do that.
I am going to show you how well the OT goes with the NT in one verse:
Proverbs 11:30King James Version (KJV)
30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
Proverbs talks about winning souls for God, turning people toward righteousness. That means getting people saved. That means giving them the gospel of Christ.
There are over 100 predictions of Jesus Christ in the OT. They describe Him accurately. You do not recognize them because you are in unbelief. Otherwise you would already know that Christ is spoken of in the OT (but just not His name, His characteristics and foreshadowing). You do not see Him because you do not truly believe, just like the rest of the modern Jews and Pharisees.
Why is it that Cain's offer was rejected but Abel's was accepted by God? Because Cain's offering was from his own labor. He worked the soil. Abel's offering was the lamb, which is a foreshadowing of Jesus Christ, who is the Lamb of God, slain for all mankind.
The sacrifices themselves in the OT are a symbolic representation of the sacrifice Christ made on the cross for us. They are predictions and prophesies which we saw fulfilled in the NT.
So you can not say I believe in the OT only. If you believed and followed the OT, you'd truly be following the NT, because the OT was there to point us towards the NT.
A good man is above pettiness. He is better than that.