(cont.)

Ok, this is new (sort of).  Your answers to the initial question (which I hope to address later) are good, but a bit incomplete.  Now, I brought up something in the middle of the discussion that nobody has answered to my satisfaction.  It is this: What determines which commandments we keep in the Old Testament?  [...]

Genocide?

Alright guys, you’re doing great so I decided to make it really hard now.
In the Old Testament God commanded Israel to completely wipe out the Canaanites.  Scripture says in Deuteronomy
7:1-2 “When the Lord your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you…and when the [...]

Cannabalism?

Ok, you guys did pretty good with the last one.  Now we’re going to turn up the heat a little bit.  We are going to leave the Sermon on the Mount and move into the gospel of John.  Jesus says some very difficult statements here that actually drive many people away.  They dismissed him as a crazy [...]