From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!presby!aron
Newsgroups: net.religion
Title: Re: Jeremiah"s prophecy
Article-I.D.: presby.177
Posted: Tue Feb  8 19:48:57 1983
Received: Fri Feb 11 07:46:57 1983
References: presby.175 npoiv.1926

Richard Hammond's response reminds me of the old discussion of whether
or not the Soviet Union represents a "true" example of Communism.
The argument really boils down to: if a pure form of X existed then X
would be perfect.  It is only because we have imperfect examples
of X that X is associated with all this horrible murder and mayhem.
Thus X is not to blaim for the murder and mayhem.  Not very convincing.
In any case it is irrelevant to my original argument.  Someone claimed
that Jeremiah's prophecy of a new Covenant between Israel and God refers
to Christianity.  I said it could not refer to Christianity because
the historical reality of Christianity is far from the vision of this
new Covenant that Jeremiah foresaw.  In fact, we need only look around
at the world around us to see that this new Covenant has not yet been
established anywhere in this world.  Perhaps someday a perfect X will
come along, and man will indeed have God's law written on his heart
and mind.  In fact, the mystical view of Judaism is that our purpose
in life is to bring that day closer.  Until then, I will have no patience
for those who claim to be perfect. I suspect that Jeremiah would not have
much patience for them either.

					aron shtull-trauring