Last year a prominent nationally known pastor advocated that Christians needed to unhitch themselves from the Old Testament.  This set off a firestorm of debate online.  His motivation for calling for such action was due to his passion to reach the lost for Jesus Christ and he sees the Old Testament as a hindrance to this objective.   He argued that what people need to know, without getting into all the messy details of the Old Testament, is simply that Jesus Christ rose from the dead.  

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