Another 95 Theses

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Another 95 Theses

61: The church says the purpose of the law is to bring the knowledge of sin to unbelievers, but its instruction about the multitude of things it considers sinful is directed to its own members, not outsiders.

62: The law is neither preached nor effective, comprising a multitude of harsh and often baffling commandments made to a tribe of Bronze Age desert nomads, having little applicability to today’s society and largely unknown to everyone including the preachers of the church.

63: If God gave the law to awaken people to the knowledge of sin and ultimately lead them to the church, it’s hard to imagine how he could have failed more spectacularly, with perhaps a few million out of the seven billion people throughout the world even being aware of this sect and only a tiny fraction of them showing any interest in converting.