tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7889072.post5470453974479200065..comments2018-11-25T15:38:35.912-08:00Comments on I blow stuff up for a living: So....what are you saying?Joelinuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555943166766911707noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7889072.post-78751109084962910632007-02-12T08:45:00.000-08:002007-02-12T08:45:00.000-08:00Just to add, the New Testament is full of verses s...Just to add, the New Testament is full of verses showing that the Lord's love is not gained through strictly obeying complex rules and observing elaborate taboos. Jesus' parables about Samaritans, Lepers and his dialogue with the Samaritan woman at the well and the adulteress, plus Peter's dream of the forbidden food, Philip's baptism of the Ethiopian Eunuch are just a few examples.<BR/><BR/>The Gospel grows with the times and only at that point in time was it relatively "safe" to preach to gentiles and not just Jews. Paul, if he weren't a Roman citizen, wouldn't have travelled easily around an area that was the scene of bloody battles just a couple of centuries before Alexander and the Ceasars.<BR/><BR/>While it is valuable for us to remember those ancient taboos and exclusions, it is only to remind us that we are all gentiles.<BR/><BR/>In this day and age, when a single blog can reach people from Antartica to China and Zimbabwe, we should be wary of any group that espouses the opposite.<BR/><BR/>Go out and mingle.Paolo Carballohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14231541366922740761noreply@blogger.com