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   From: donnellaf@gmail.com   
      
   Derek Broughton wrote:   
   > Graham Lockwood wrote:   
   >   
   >>While I mostly agree with this, those labeled as "fundamentalists"   
   >>(self-labeled or otherwise) generally do believe that their beliefs stem   
   >>directly from the Bible.   
   >   
   >   
   > Sure, but I was taught - as Andrew obviously was - that _the_ fundament of   
   > Christianity was "to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and   
   > mind, and love your neighbor as yourself", and that this specifically   
   > overrode the Old Testament ("I give to you a new commandment...").  Those   
   > labelled as fundamentalists typically insist on blind adherence to the   
   > wording of the OT.   
      
   I generally agree with you, but I wouldn't so much say that Jesus   
   overrode the OT, as much as clarified the original intent of the laws   
   (he doesn't say that that is a new commandment, but rather that that is   
   the summation of the law and the prophets).  People of his time, and   
   much of the OT time, used the laws, sometimes twisted by literal   
   interpretations that completely missed the point, to support their own   
   misguided positions.  The "you have heard it was said...but I say to   
   you..." bits don't really contradict the OT--for example, OT says "love   
   your neighbor;" people expanded that so they could justify hatred for   
   their enemy.  Jesus recalls the original purpose of the laws.   
      
      
   Andy   
      
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