If you were to take my word for it, Jesus was the completion of the old testament; which is to say, forbearing my own interpretations, that much of what we read of the old testament is the vein of context throughwhich he is brought into the world - like the stages a flower goes through before it comes into the totality of its blossom. None of these stages are savory to the palatte save for the appreciation of the flower and the harvest of its fruit; and by its fruit the good vine is known.
A culture of slavery is obselete, I liken it to the bitter bud, but there is still a lot you can learn by observing its development. There are others who still live as if it had not come to season however and conduct slavery in other ways (they're not Christians mind you).
If you were to take my word for it, Jesus was the completion of the old testament; which is to say, forbearing my own interpretations, that much of what we read of the old testament is the vein of context throughwhich he is brought into the world - like the stages a flower goes through before it comes into the totality of its blossom. None of these stages are savory to the palatte save for the appreciation of the flower and the harvest of its fruit; and by its fruit the good vine is known.
A culture of slavery is obselete, I liken it to the bitter bud, but there is still a lot you can learn by observing its development. There are others who still live as if it had not come to season however and conduct slavery in other ways (they're not Christians mind you).
I am not talking about the Christians.
90th in human trafficking, 1st in contractual bondage and usury... makes you really wonder "who".
They believe in a piercing messiah to come, not the pierced.