"So, what is the purpose of the New Testament, then?” The new guyasked. “I mean, in your eyes?”
“Go online.” The girl said this before I even had a chance to open my
mouth. “And go to the library. Research a guy named Marcion. This is the guy that compiled the epistles or letters into the book that we now know as the New Testament.”
I smiled at how well spoken her answer was. That’s when I knew that she
was convinced that Christianity was just another religion.
“Also, open your bible to Ezekiel 20,” I said. This class was a good thing
for me. I had to study now, so I was more
inclined to know where certain scriptures where.
“Starting in verse 24… ‘Because they had not executed my judgments,
but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols. Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live…’
“That’s what I accredit the New Testament to. Our people rejected the
Most High’s first laws so he gave them some laws that you can’t live by. And you can try, but you can’t live by the Old Testament and the New Testament at the same time. Ain’t no way. In the Old it says that you’re supposed to love your mother and father. In the new, in Luke 14; 26, it says for you to hate your mother and father.
“Starting in verse 24… ‘Because they had not executed my judgments,
but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols. Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live…’
“That’s what I accredit the New Testament to. Our people rejected the
Most High’s first laws so he gave them some laws that you can’t live by. And you can try, but you can’t live by the Old Testament and the New Testament at the same time. Ain’t no way. In the Old it says that you’re supposed to love your mother and father. In the new, in Luke 14; 26, it says for you to hate your mother and father.
The only person it tells you to love in the New Testament is your enemy.”
I knew I was going to have to back that one up. The new guy asked where
that verse was again and I started to flip through the pages when I dropped my Bible on the floor. I saw the girl get up to get it for me, but I already had a hand on it when I heard something-like a rock hitting the window and blood splattered on my hand and contrasted chromatically against the off-white pages of my Bible. The new guy’s mouth dropped and I looked at my hand to see why I was bleeding… But I wasn’t.
I knew I was going to have to back that one up. The new guy asked where
that verse was again and I started to flip through the pages when I dropped my Bible on the floor. I saw the girl get up to get it for me, but I already had a hand on it when I heard something-like a rock hitting the window and blood splattered on my hand and contrasted chromatically against the off-white pages of my Bible. The new guy’s mouth dropped and I looked at my hand to see why I was bleeding… But I wasn’t.
When I looked up, the girl was falling
towards me and I caught her before she hit the ground. I heard someone yell ‘No!’ And then
towards me and I caught her before she hit the ground. I heard someone yell ‘No!’ And then
I saw something fall from the rooftop across the street…
--Rebel
--Rebel
posted by The Urban Author at 12:46 PM
2 Comments:
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