Old Testament ‘Bad,’ New Testament ‘Good’: A Dangerous (and Mistaken) Assumption
…d Testament revenge,” from TV’s Hannibal. Where does this routine division between “Old Testament” harshness and “New Testament” sweetness come from? In my view, it comes from the widespread but mistaken idea held by Christians (including cultural Christians), that it’s okay to follow St. Paul in drawing a sharp line between the old and oppressive Jewish insistence on “law” and the new Christian era of “grace.” (It goes without saying that the per…
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