But where do you draw the line? You can pick pretty much any religion and if you follow the "rules" 100% you will be an austere social outcast, walking on eggshells wherever you go. Living any religion strictly by the books would demand you drop everything else in your life. You know, like monks. But even monks can't 100% follow all the rules all the time. To do so would be inhuman.
rly makes u think...
In Christianity, this is kind of the loose premise behind that Jesus thing.
Man can't shake Old Testament blues -> man is impure -> man can't contact God (receive the Spirit) -> God becomes man (the Son, God-Man, etc.) -> man is reconciled with God through the blood of His Son (act of love redeems man from his failings) -> man is able to contact God in New Testament Economy (the dispensation of Himself through faith/justification by faith, whatever)
New Testament Economy =/= Old Testament Economy
It's a bit more complicated than that but that's the gist.
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