The New Testament literally makes no sense without the Old Testament.
It directly cites and makes allusions to the Old Testament all the time… and a fair number of times it actually cites or references a mistranslation of the Old Testament.
For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter shall pass from the Law, until all is accomplished!
Where ‘the Law’ is ‘the Torah’, ie, the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Old Testament.
Jesus does not at any point distinctly state that only the Ten Commandments are valid, the rest are to be disregardrd… that just doesn’t exist in the Gospels.
Also, Jesus got killed because he essentially started a riot in the outer area of the Temple, flipping over tables of money changers, fashioning a whip and attacking them.
Today we’d call that ‘terroristic threats’ or something like that.
So any time a church outright asks you for money, within its grounds, remember that the answer to WWJD? is to physically assault and mock such people for defiling the sanctity of an ostensibly holy place.
The New Testament literally makes no sense without the Old Testament.
It directly cites and makes allusions to the Old Testament all the time… and a fair number of times it actually cites or references a mistranslation of the Old Testament.
https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Matthew 5%3A18
Jesus himself says:
Where ‘the Law’ is ‘the Torah’, ie, the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Old Testament.
Jesus does not at any point distinctly state that only the Ten Commandments are valid, the rest are to be disregardrd… that just doesn’t exist in the Gospels.
Also, Jesus got killed because he essentially started a riot in the outer area of the Temple, flipping over tables of money changers, fashioning a whip and attacking them.
Today we’d call that ‘terroristic threats’ or something like that.
So any time a church outright asks you for money, within its grounds, remember that the answer to WWJD? is to physically assault and mock such people for defiling the sanctity of an ostensibly holy place.