Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
by yonaguska on Monday March 29, 2021 @11:26AM
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The New Testament is often mistakenly touted as a "reformation" from the Old Testament, and cherry-picked apart into a more progressive form of Christianity, but, it's not all that different from the Old Testament in actuality. New Testament also defines dress codes for women and re-affirms a patriarchal family heirarchy.
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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
by AuthorizedCust on Monday March 29, 2021 @12:10PM
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> it's not all that different from the Old Testament in actuality
Um, have you actually read them? They are miles apart. Can you find me the reams of legal codes or origin stories in the New Testament, for example?
Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
by sudosteph on Monday March 29, 2021 @05:40PM
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Agree completely. While both texts do largely focus on people of Jewish origins, there is not a lot of actual overlap on content. Some of the NT books are seen as prophetical, so that lines up to some degree - but even those read very different.
It's not just content that differs either - the literary style of the NT also deviates greatly, since it borrows much more from hellenized culture than the OT. Especially the synoptic gospels. For example, John, was composed using a layered "onion" type narrative structure which was popular in other greek texts.
They're even so different, that one form of heresy that was more common back in the day (Gnosticism), would sometimes claim that the OT deity was a false-god (the demiurge), because how else do you explain such a personality change?