(Bad Cop, Good Cop) or (Stick, Carrot)

[turtle]

I was just thinking that the bible is exactly like the stick and carrot.
The old testament is the stick. And the new testament is the carrot.
What do you think? Probably has been said many times. How to control the masses.

[MagsJ (Surya Loka)]

Well, religion is all about ‘mass’ control, no?

[turtle]

@Magsj

Well, religion is all about ‘mass’ control, no?

YES

[anon]

Even though I was brought up as a relatively informed Protestant, I’ve never understood the relationship between the old and new testaments. I briefly brought this up in another thread recently:

@anon

I wonder if Jesus said the following, in order to be accepted by his peers:

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.”

Is this an example of deception? Because he clearly spoke as if his teachings superceded the Old Testament teachings:

“You have heard that it was said, “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” But I tell you, do not resist an evil person.”

Who knows?

[jonquil]

@anon

Even though I was brought up as a relatively informed Protestant, I’ve never understood the relationship between the old and new testaments. I briefly brought this up in another thread recently:

@anon

I wonder if Jesus said the following, in order to be accepted by his peers:

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.”

Is this an example of deception? Because he clearly spoke as if his teachings superceded the Old Testament teachings:

“You have heard that it was said, “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” But I tell you, do not resist an evil person.”

Who knows?

I think that fulfilling a prophecy can be thought of separately from the teaching itself.

[anon]

@jonquil

@anon

Even though I was brought up as a relatively informed Protestant, I’ve never understood the relationship between the old and new testaments. I briefly brought this up in another thread recently:

@anon

I wonder if Jesus said the following, in order to be accepted by his peers:

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.”

Is this an example of deception? Because he clearly spoke as if his teachings superceded the Old Testament teachings:

“You have heard that it was said, “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” But I tell you, do not resist an evil person.”

Who knows?

I think that fulfilling a prophecy can be thought of separately from the teaching itself.

That’s interesting. But did someone in the OT predict that Christ would come along and abolish the OT? And if this is what happened, then why did the OT remain part of the Bible? Just for contrast and context?

[jonquil]

@anon

@jonquil

I think that fulfilling a prophecy can be thought of separately from the teaching itself.

That’s interesting. But did someone in the OT predict that Christ would come along and abolish the OT? And if this is what happened, then why did the OT remain part of the Bible? Just for contrast and context?

Sorry, but I don’t think of these books as much more than myths and sci-fi stories cobbled together over many years by many authors. Somewhere along the way they got turned into tools and put out with such great authoritarian swagger by Senex authorities that now people take them way too seriously and literally.

[anon]

@jonquil

@anon

@jonquil

I think that fulfilling a prophecy can be thought of separately from the teaching itself.

That’s interesting. But did someone in the OT predict that Christ would come along and abolish the OT? And if this is what happened, then why did the OT remain part of the Bible? Just for contrast and context?

Sorry, but I don’t think of these books as much more than myths and sci-fi stories cobbled together over many years by many authors. Somewhere along the way they got turned into tools and put out with such great authoritarian swagger by Senex authorities that now people take them way too seriously and literally.

Haha ok then. Nothing to be sorry about.

[jonquil]

@jonquil

I think that fulfilling a prophecy can be thought of separately from the teaching itself.

@anon

That’s interesting. But did someone in the OT predict that Christ would come along and abolish the OT? And if this is what happened, then why did the OT remain part of the Bible? Just for contrast and context?

@anon

@jonquil

Sorry, but I don’t think of these books as much more than myths and sci-fi stories cobbled together over many years by many authors. Somewhere along the way they got turned into tools and put out with such great authoritarian swagger by Senex authorities that now people take them way too seriously and literally.

Haha ok then. Nothing to be sorry about.

Lol. I like a good sport.