Some of the worst people in the country. I was raised evangelical, even the folks I know who were decent on an interpersonal level would never consider voting for anyone other than Republicans.

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    The Old Testament that is used today has not yet been decided upon until quite some time after the probable span of time in which Matthew was written

    The Torah was fully locked in long before that time. The haggling was about the status of some of the other books of the OT (some of which Christians still don’t agree on, either).

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      That is true, but it is still not known if Jesus was referring to the whole Torah, parts of it, or to some other law we don’t consider. We do not know his stance to other jewish sects at the time, other than his dislike of pharisees. My point is that it’s all just pick and choose, there is no single voice or historic certainty or any of the sort