This MOU between RNC and AFN further demonstrates our desire to strengthen relationships, build understanding and create sustainable community benefits as we progress the development of the Dumont project.
173-174). Godâs laws in the Old Testament not only regulated slavery (so that those enslaved would be given many rights that they otherwise would not have had), but they also supplied the means whereby fairness could be meted out with regard to criminal activity and debt.T]here is no reasonable doubt that the New Testament, like the Old, not only tolerated chattel slavery (the form prevalent in the Greco-Roman world of Paulâs time) but helped to perpetuate it by making the slavesâ obedience to their masters a religious duty.
In contrast, by observing the Bible we can learn: The Bible mentions Jesus' forty-day fast (Matt. 4:2), but never uses the word lent, never tells us to fast in memory of Jesus' fast, and never gives any set time for fasting at all.eople sometimes use the Old Testament to justify practices that are not mentioned in the New Testament. Actually, a study of the Old Testament ought to more strongly convince us God does not want these practices. When God accepted certain Old Testament annual holy days, He expressly said so in clear terms.