Lucky Forward said:
You can so put the Lord your God to the test:
Test away, all you want, it's in the Bible.
God gave almost every single porphet a sign to show that it was truly him speaking to them. Asking for a verification of God's divine commission is different than assuming his compliace to your own decisions.
b) That doesn't apply to Christians. Jews, maybe. But to a Christian, the New Testament supercedes the Old Testament. Book of Matthew versus Book of Judges, Matthew wins.
Incorrect. You have been talking to ignorant Christians. Christ's fulfillment of many prophesies also fulfilled certain ceremonial law and some institutions given to Israel as a nation, things which were representative of Christ and his work, a shadow of things which were to come. Now that we have the real thing, those things are no longer necessary, kind of similar to the way the objects of our faith and hope will be fulfilled in heaven so we will have need of neither there. Figuring out how OT passages apply in context to Christ is understood by careful study of the NT, but this does not mean they are in contradiction and the NT supercedes the OT. It's not overriding importance or disregarding the OT, it's about original purpose within current context.
