I appreciate your comments. Now you'd better get back to your little one,
the others are playing dot to dot on him hehehehe.
Brad
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At 01/06/2004 on Tuesday, you wrote:
>Hey Brad,
>You know, Paul, Saint Paul, not our Paul, although, according to the
>bible, our Paul is a saint too, but not as old, anyway, Paul was very
>concerned as he was spreading the gospel and starting new churches, that
>the gentiles not be saddled with all of the old law and traditions that
>had weighed down the jews. He pointed out that the Jews had failed at
>keeping the laws and traditions so why burden the gentiles with a failed
>system. Saint Paul did, however, encourage the continuing of the sadar as
>the Lord's supper because Jesus Himself had endorsed its continuance by
>saying, "a new command I give to you." However, sacrifices were dealt
>with by Jesus' death. Circumcision was dealt with by the idea of giving
>us a heart of flesh.
>Interestingly enough, the tradition that the church has that the Jewish
>people didn't, even though we see the Jewish people practicing it at the
>beginning of the new testament is baptism. And, as far as fulfilling the
>law, the ten commandments are fulfilled if we love the Lord our God with
>all of our heart, all our mind, all our soul, and our neighbor as
>ourselves. That puts the ten commandments in such a positive light!
>Anyway, I'm muddling through, because, once again, I'm dealing with
>things going on here as well as trying to write this so I will close for
>now before I say something totally off the wall.
>Kathy
>
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