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Old Testament vs New Testament
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Linus
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Old Testament- God creates the world, eventually establishes His chosen people (the Jews), and gives them the Law and a nation. The People foresake the Law and abandon God, so the nation is taken over and the people are scattered. The people repent and are allowed to return to their land and rebuild.
New Testament- Several hundred years later a Jewish man named Jesus is born and claims to be the Messiah who was promised to the Jews through their prophecies. He says he will establish a new covenant (law) between God and men. Most of the Jews don't believe him and he is killed. He rises from the dead a few days later and establishes that new Law along with the church. A few years later, a bunch of letters are written to people that DO believe in Jesus.
New Testament- Several hundred years later a Jewish man named Jesus is born and claims to be the Messiah who was promised to the Jews through their prophecies. He says he will establish a new covenant (law) between God and men. Most of the Jews don't believe him and he is killed. He rises from the dead a few days later and establishes that new Law along with the church. A few years later, a bunch of letters are written to people that DO believe in Jesus.
painted wolf
Grey Muzzle
old testiment- god is angry, god has to punnish his chosen people for thier sins. Unbelievers will be punished eternally.
new testiment- god is nice, god will forgive his chosen people for thier sins. Oh yeah, unbelievers will still be punished eternally.
wa:do
new testiment- god is nice, god will forgive his chosen people for thier sins. Oh yeah, unbelievers will still be punished eternally.
wa:do
standing_on_one_foot
Well-Known Member
Actually, the OT doesn't mention much in the way of an afterlife...I think it's more unbelievers will be punished nastily *now*.
DontFearMe
Member
Old Testament: God creates all that exists, Abraham migrates has children, his children have children, they become slaves in egypt, God frees them from Egypt, they invade Palestine, establish law....haha hard to summarize!
New Testament: Jesus comes a long and preaches to the Jews providing new interpretation to God's laws. Beyond the 4 gospels the rest is mostly Paul, a man who writes a bunch of letters and somehow they are published in the bible to be the word of God.
Hard to summarize!
New Testament: Jesus comes a long and preaches to the Jews providing new interpretation to God's laws. Beyond the 4 gospels the rest is mostly Paul, a man who writes a bunch of letters and somehow they are published in the bible to be the word of God.
Hard to summarize!
Scott1
Well-Known Member
122 Indeed, "the economy of the Old Testament was deliberately so oriented that it should prepare for and declare in prophecy the coming of Christ, redeemer of all men." "Even though they contain matters imperfect and provisional," the books of the Old Testament bear witness to the whole divine pedagogy of God's saving love: these writings "are a storehouse of sublime teaching on God and of sound wisdom on human life, as well as a wonderful treasury of prayers; in them, too, the mystery of our salvation is present in a hidden way."
124 "The Word of God, which is the power of God for salvation to everyone who has faith, is set forth and displays its power in a most wonderful way in the writings of the New Testament" which hand on the ultimate truth of God's Revelation. Their central object is Jesus Christ, God's incarnate Son: his acts, teachings, Passion and glorification, and his Church's beginnings under the Spirit's guidance.
129 Christians therefore read the Old Testament in the light of Christ crucified and risen. Such typological reading discloses the inexhaustible content of the Old Testament; but it must not make us forget that the Old Testament retains its own intrinsic value as Revelation reaffirmed by our Lord himself. Besides, the New Testament has to be read in the light of the Old. Early Christian catechesis made constant use of the Old Testament. As an old saying put it, the New Testament lies hidden in the Old and the Old Testament is unveiled in the New.
124 "The Word of God, which is the power of God for salvation to everyone who has faith, is set forth and displays its power in a most wonderful way in the writings of the New Testament" which hand on the ultimate truth of God's Revelation. Their central object is Jesus Christ, God's incarnate Son: his acts, teachings, Passion and glorification, and his Church's beginnings under the Spirit's guidance.
129 Christians therefore read the Old Testament in the light of Christ crucified and risen. Such typological reading discloses the inexhaustible content of the Old Testament; but it must not make us forget that the Old Testament retains its own intrinsic value as Revelation reaffirmed by our Lord himself. Besides, the New Testament has to be read in the light of the Old. Early Christian catechesis made constant use of the Old Testament. As an old saying put it, the New Testament lies hidden in the Old and the Old Testament is unveiled in the New.
Genesis 3:15 - Adam, a perfect man sinned, therefore it was necessary that another perfect man, Jesus provide a ransom sacrifice to redeem us. In response to Adam and Eve's sin God said, "He will bruise you in the head and you will bruise him in the heel". Satan is to be bruised in the head (fatal). Jesus was bruised in the heel when he was killed on the stake. The events of the Hebrew and Christian scriptures were set in motion from the beginning (Genesis) and will soon conclude in Revelation.