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The Bible.

Consists of two books, the Old and the New Testaments.

The Old Testament = history of the Jewish people, Moses, Abraham, Adam, lots of wars, the Ten Commandments, the Levite law for Israelites, and a bunch of prophecies, some of which are about Christ, but most of which are about the destruction of Jerusalem, and the end of the world.

The New Testament = teachings of Jesus Christ, plus the story of his birth, ministry, crucifixion, and return from death, and then some letters his followers wrote to each other after that.

Now. If you are Christian (not Jewish, Christian,) which of these two books is the most important?

This should be a no-brainer here.

And yet outside of Mormonism I have NEVER seen anybody say that the New Testament's teachings are more important than the Old. When people argue "but the Bible says X and it says Y, and they contradict each other!" they never even bring up that X is OT and Y is NT. I just finished reading a huge long rant about the ten commandments and how they're stupid, and not really good moral guides because they were mostly about not having idols and not working on Sunday and so on, and I just went "duh!" Of course they're not, they're OT. The sermon on the mount is the good moral guide of the Bible for Christians because it's NT, so it's what Christ said.

Am I alone here? Why do people not distinguish between NT and OT? They just say "The Bible." The Bible is TWO TOTALLY DIFFERENT BOOKS!!!!!

I am a Christian. This means that if I find the Bible saying "stone anybody who works on the Sabbath" and I also find the Bible saying "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath," I don't need to think really hard about which of these two statements is more important. Moses said the first one, and Christ said the second one. I'm Christian, not Jewish, so I'm going to follow the second one.

Duh.

Third time's the charm.

Third time had BETTER be the charm here.

Yet again we thought we knew what was wrong with my computer, and YET AGAIN we got it all "fixed" only to see it do the exact same stupid thing.

So after a LOT of testing and work *smooches wonderful JJ for doing it* we're pretty sure we actually know what it is this time. Aaaaaaaaaaaaand back we go AGAIN to get new stuff and try once more.

If it doesn't work after this I'm going to have to kill somebody. Preferrably somebody involved in the manufacture of the various computer bits involved, but if I can't find one of them, somebody else will do.

Such a lovely ending to a lovely week. *mutters*

Sugar shock warning.

Watergazer, a rather spiffy artist (she did me a Windstone ki-rin that I was very sad to have to sell this month) is doing a whole set of custom paint auctions, including this gal which tempts me to get it, just so I could get something ridiculous and gothy done to it, but I'm too broke.

Thought I'd pass along the link, as I know a couple of folks reading this like My Little Pony stuff, and Watergazer needs help with medical bills, so it's a worthy cause too.