Note: Before reading the following arguments, please understand that they are not what I believe. On Wednesdays, I deliberately argue for wrong ideas, challenging my listeners to call and defend the obvious right answer, which is usually far harder than one would expect. This is a summary of what Wacky Andrew will be arguing, not a representation of what real Andrew believes.~Isn’t this what you already do, for the most part?
~Jesus fulfilled it, so we don’t need it anymore.
~You can’t obey it anyhow, so why bother studying it?
~The new is the replacement of the old. Otherwise, I’m baffled by what we mean by “new.”
~If you had to advise someone to read the NT or the OT, which one?
~If you were stranded on a deserted island without an NT or without an OT, which would you miss more?
~If you had to go on the mission field with only one or the other, which would you forego? Have you even read the Old Testament? How many times compared to the New?
~How hard is it to read the OT? Be honest, you know it’s difficult and obtuse.
~It’s very distant from us culturally. You have to basically become an ancient near eastern Jew to even understand it properly. It’s better to just ignore it than get it wrong.
~It portrays God as very different and regressive than the NT
~The moral codes are quite different. So shouldn’t we just focus on the parts that apply to us?
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