Posted by FH on November 15, 2012 at 15:52:57
How can the Ten Commandments be done away with if the new law he introduced supposedly contained all the very same law (the ten) and the prophets, all in one? How can that be?
The Ten spells it out pretty clear and I wonder which one of them was now done away with, one may ask? According to Berg, the whole lot, all of them, so no wonder it went as it did; it was the only logical conclusion of that matter. Of course then many got real busy pushing ‘God’s love’ on to their neighbour’s wife or husband, minors or anyone at hand.
So why was it the only logical conclusion? Because we were told “All you have to have to worship God today is your own heart.” Therefore as all constraining powers were lifted, all check and balance systems were aborted (the entire Bible were thus done away with, incl. the Ten), you thus only needed your own heart to worship God and to get it right. And from the context he was not speaking about *where* to worship, what he was really saying was to go ahead and do whatever is in your heart, whatever you desire, and because of the law of love it can’t be wrong. As we were supposedly under the ‘law of love’ therefore the logic was that all we would do would of course be in line with God’s will and love.
Jesus did exactly the opposite of what Berg claims, He confirms that the Ten still stands, He points back to the commandments. Nowhere in the Bible is the Ten Commandments made obsolete, to the contrary, they are repeatedly reinforced. But either Berg was a mediocre idiot or he had other reasons for this malicious theology. Anyhow, the results are as always when one (or a few) person is given too much power. Why does people almost demand ‘spiritual directors’ to tell them what to believe and what to do? (‘Spiritual directors’ is Peter and Maria's title now.)