Reply #6: Not a rejection but understood in a historical context [View All]

[willing dwarf]

A lot of Christians see the life of Jesus as the fullfilment of the Old Testament. God moves from intimate, knowable and scarey in the early books of Old Testament and becomes more remote over the course of the history of the Israeli people.

Jesus comes "not to rejct the law but to fulfill it." As the "suffering servant" the understanding is that God has stopped being harsh and destructive, and has become intimate, but ineffable. Loving his people to the point of self-sacrifice.

So... many people who call themselves CHristian see Bible, Old T. & New as a historic document, not needing to be weighed as "true."

This is how American Quakers and Catholics, Episcopalians and Lutherans seem to understand it.