When I was in Seminary, I took a class on how the Old Testament relates to the New. One thing that struck me by surprise was the author of the textbook and the professor taught that unless the New Testament confirmed something in the old, that part of the Old Testament was irrelevant. Paul said, " All Scripture...." Old and New Testament is the- Whole counsel of God.
Totally the contrary, if something in the new testament goes against the old testament, something is wrong, especially if it's related to the Father's will, because anything going against the commandments of God (the ones that can be applied to anybody like the law of Moses), because the law defines what is righteous and what is a sin. If Jesus Christ in the new testament broke any commandment, he would be a sinner and he would be disqualified as the Messiah. So everything that Jesus Christ said and his disciples (Paul included) must be read (interpreted) in the context of the old testament. Sure, salvation was always by faith (Hebrews 10), so sal nation in the new testament continues to be by faith.
If something in the new testament goes against the old testament maybe our translation is wrong or we misunderstood what we are reading. Jesus Christ Bible was the old testament, especially the Torah, because he was a teacher of the law of Moses, a Rabbi, a teacher who taught Torah to his disciples (his students). So everything that Jesus said was in that context, because Jesus Christ is the word of God, he was the one speaking with Moses in the mountains, the one in the mountain was not the father because the father is invisible, the one who shown his back to moses was Jesus Christ. Jesus as the word of God gave Moses the law, how could he go against his own word? Without the old testament we cannot understand the new testament. Jesus said to the rich man in the punishment fire: "they have Moses and the prophets...". Salvation is by faith but faith without works is dead faith. In the law are defined by Jesus Christ itself the good works and the bad works. If we do good things we are practicing righteousness, if we don't care about what God defines as holy and we do according to our opinion, we are doing unrighteousness, that is sin, and to be able to see God we must be holy, something achievable through the obedience to the will of God by the power of the Holy Spirit (that came with the new covenant).
@luisea930 I actually wrote an email to the author and copied the professor. I was stunned at their seemingly disregard for the Old Testament. I asked the question of how could they be so dismissive of the Book that Jesus taught from. It would explain why some or a lot of pastors don't preach from the Old Testament. .
@@pebbles9908What do you think of the idea that the Old Testament was for the Jews and while it may foretell Jesus's arrival, the New Testament tells us His life and teachings. Jesus was Jewish but to many, He moved away from Judaism and created Christianity, which is why He said He came with a sword, knowing full well he was dividing families. A deep dive into the Old testament reveals many terrible stories of abuse, slavery, adultery and wrong doing that often appears to be totally irrelevant and our of place in a Holy book. Focussing on the New Testament, doing our best to observe the 2 commandments He gave us and doing our best to become better people, are much more important endeavours than mulling over the old testament. Just my thoughts
What statement of Paul are you referring to. The OT text can only be understood when the NT text is understood first, because only the Spirit of truth can give you that understanding. Previously adherents of the OT did not have the Holy Spirit as a norm, but were following formal ordinances.
QUALITY QUALITY QUALITY Typical CMI QUALITY Thank God for another GREAT video. I am currently reading the Old Testament for the first time, have known about the science for almost 50 years. The speaker, Peter, has shed some ;ight on things that I found puzzling / apparently inconsistent myself. As an aside, a bit like Richard Dawkins' "apparent design" which is the sort of design one has when the entity / component is CLEARLY and OBVIOUSLY designed but the observer deceives himself and others about the designer because he refuses to admit that design MANDATES a designer. I shall definitely be watching this video several more times> Thankyou so very much.
I know this is cliche. But often the simple explanations are the easiest to convey a message. “It takes the whole Bible to make a whole Christian.” Great episode!! So thankful for this channel.
This is why I have a lot of respect for messianic Jews. They get it. They don't disregard the old testament, they know that the Bible is a single saga. The old testament is part of the story of Jesus.
@@beestoe993 We won't understand anything if we read from the the last page. Without the right context, the understanding of some core doctrines of the Bible would be nearly impossible, because we don't have a perfect relationship with God and our hearts could deceive us, making us think that that inner voice is the holy Spirit. But the holy Spirit will never go against the scriptures.
I have been a Christian for decades. My faith had huge conflicts until I started understanding the Old Testament particularly the 1st 5 books. Read the Old Testament without the blinkers modern Christian theology places upon us and know what to look for and the Old Testament will blow your mind. Standard theology says grace was the result of Christ’s death on the cross. Sorry read what Moses did at the incident involving the Golden Calf. Moses acting as a type of Christ interceded for the Israelite nation putting his own life on the line. Consider also of all the prophets in the Bible, Moses was the only one the see God face to face. That makes him really special. The words given to Moses (Torah) were directly from God’s conversation with Moses. But if you then say that what Jesus did replaces the Old Testament then you have a problem. If God can’t change as it’s an inherit part His nature then be careful that you are saying God changes His mind. If that is the case your faith as a Christian is built on a foundation of sand. What’s to stop God changing His mind again!! Sorry if God can change His mind then I am out of believing in God. It’s a faith built on contradiction. Sorry but seriously look at what you believe and if you find a contradiction then ask God to resolve the contradiction. When God reveals the answer it will blow your mind about who the God we follow truly is. We will come to realise who and what he did and how we should respond. If we say Jesus did away with the Law then we had better ask ourselves ‘all the Law’, ‘some of the law in which case what laws did He do away with’ or ‘none of the law’. What Old Testament law do I need to follow and not follow. Can anyone tell me where explicitly Jesus taught this law is done away with and this particular law stays. It’s not in Jesus teachings and if you believe you have the verse which is a blanket cover for all laws then understand the context as if you were person listening to him endowed with knowledge of the culture of the time. Don’t plug in western 20th century thinking, it will trip you up.
I donʼt know about the wording, but Godʼs grace was always given thru Christʼs sacrifice. His grace & sacrifice were announced as soon as man sinned (Gen 3ː15). And Rev 13ː8 calls Him «the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.» The proclamation of the Gospel has been called the “revelation of a secret hidden for long ages” (Rom 16ː25) This is not to discount anything you said; itʼs just to add that Christʼs sacrifice has always been the basis for Godʼs extension of grace to sinners since the Fall.
Blaise Pascal, and Augustine . Both of those guys's quotes are written in the beginning of CS Lewis's Mere Christianity. l bought that book in a used book store 30 years ago, and never forgot how amazing it was. Thank You Jesus for any understanding You have blessed a cement head like me with! :)
Thank you for this teaching. Such a blessing! Personally, I love the OT and I love reading through the Bible from year to year leaving out nothing. The intricacies of Scripture is utterly mind blowing.
Thank you for sharing this, CMI 🙏🙏🙏✝️ much appreciated, as always. The books of the OT ultimately point us to the NT. It's impossible to understand the New without the Old. God bless!
The disticntion between old and new is of gentile origins. The original Judeans certainly didn't have that division. Said "new testament books" all teach from "old testament books", there's no discontinuation in their view. The new covenant is in fact a renewal of the old covenant. Simple difference being a change of the sacerdotal duties. Jesus Christ being the high priest now (Book of Hebrews) offering His perfect blood, and the gift of the holy Spirit being our teacher in all Truths, bringing to our rememberance all He heard from the father. Faith cometh by hearing, and what we hear is the Word of God, that instruct us in rigtheousness.
The entire sermon on the mount is in the OT somewhere. Paul's teachings are all in the OT somewhere. People miss the truth in the OT because they see story after story and history after history. People think the OT is some history book and not spiritual truth like the NT.
Yes, the gospels, and all the apostolic scriptures are full of verses from the OT, because the NT is the continuation of the OT, and because Jesus Christ is the word of God, that is the one that was talking to Moses on the mountain, and who show Moses his back, because God is invisible and when the father speaks, is the Son who is speaking. Jesus said: before Moses I am, we need the OT not only to understand the NT, but to be aware of the instructions of God to his people to live a holy and productive life. Salvation is by faith but blessings come by obedience to the Word of God, that is, his instructions.
We must remember that the Old Testament does not provide for the complete salvation for mankind. For that, we DO need the New Testament and Jesus! How God deals with sinful man in the Old Testament IS harsh-- but WE were the ones who disobeyed and walked away from him. The degree to which he deals harshly with our pre-redeemed nature IS in accordance with his plan for total redemption and restoration through Christ. In essence, God HAS the right to deal with us harshly until we DO accept his Son as our Redeemer! Amen!
I don’t understand why Jesus needed to read the Old Testament when that complete knowledge was in him naturally. God learning from the book that God himself wrote? Not clear to me.
9:35 - The you ask a very important question. Your question is - "Can you give some examples of New Testament passages that actually makes no sense without the Old Testament? If I may, I would like to answer this question as well. Jesus said, "If ye love me, keep my commandments." - John 14:15. If the law was done away at the cross then it would make no sense for Jesus to tell us to keep the commandments. And there many Christians who believe that we must obey the commandments, but only 9 of the commandments and not all the Ten. But even this would make no sense because all the Ten is one who law of love, if you break one you break all. When I asked Ray Comfort regarding this, he said he is only interested in the 9 of the Ten Commandments and not all of the Ten. I hope and pray that your response will not be like his.
So the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. Its desire is for you, but you should rule over it.” I don't know what YOU think, but to ME it sounds like God was talking to someone CAPABLE of make a rational decision - and promising to reward him for it.
Do you hold the inspired perfect infallible and complete words of God in a perfect book preserved in your language by an Almighty God with the revealed named Jesus?
Wouldn't let me edit...I get a return error, so I have to say one last thing. The Old Testament, tells you how you got here, why you are here and what you are supposed to do. It also tells you about the evil ones you need to stay away from. It explains the pretty lights in the sky. It's a book that tells you how to navigate this world and the wickedness you encounter. We are living in a fallen world. We must always remember that. Our job is to elevate this world, make it holy. GOD can not enter an unholy place. GOD needs us. We don't need GOD. Rabbi Mannis Friedman said that. GOD said..this is what you gotta do, to be with me. I want you with me, but to be with me, you must do this and this etc....along those lines. He said to think of it that way. That was for his Jewish audience tho. I'm Christian, but the Old Testament is all I really get into. That whole preflood world was crazy times. I can't imagine giant human looking beings roaming the land. I'm Native American and we have those oral traditions too. In fact much of our oral history weaves seamlessly with the old testament.
Although it is technically possible that Jesus could have gotten his hands on a printed copy of the Old Testament since they were "available" at the time of Jesus' life and Teaching. Just like what happened to Jesus from 12 to 33 is, for the most part, unknown; there is nothing in any of the text that would indicate that He did anything but read the Torah scroll that was handed to Him after it was fetched from the "aron hakodesh".
That is extraordinarily unlikely. Jesus and his Galilean buddies almost certainly were not fluent in Greek. They probably knew enough to transact business with the odd foreign vendor in the marketplace, but that isn't fluency. I don't know what's going on with such verses, but it is dubious in the extreme for Galilean peasants to be conversant, fluently, in Greek. They might have had the Septuagint translated into Aramaic or something in the local congregation they grew up with. Where would Jesus have gotten his hands on a Greek copy of the Septuagint to start with? He spent pretty much all his time (that we know anything about) in the Galilean countryside. Other than a few brief moments in Jerusalem as a kid, we have him as most people then were -- a person who lived their life in rural environments. His father was a carpenter; Jesus was probably busy learning that trade, not sitting in a rabbi's house reading up on stuff. Books were not common things in those days. All hand copied. Each local congregation _might_ have one book, probably the Torah and maybe a handful of others. Qumran did not have complete bibles. It had a wide variety of individual manuscripts. That was the norm then. Of course, as a member of the godhead, none of this is necessary for Jesus, direct revelation can be presumed, but neither is it necessary or likely in _that_ case that Jesus uses a translated Bible. However, his disciples had no such advantage and the idea that they saw, much less studied, the Septuagint just doesn't wash.
@@TickedOffPriest I believe you are quite correct here. It is also by itself a reason to doubt the traditional assignment of authorship of at least Matthew, Mark, and John. Paul/Saul and Luke were, so far as I know, likely if not outright known to have been educated in Greek. But the rest, as Galilean peasants, almost certainly were not.
The Israelites were taught an eye for an eye justice system. Because Babylonian soldiers (or those working for them) took the Jewish infants and smashed their heads on rocks, the Psalmist was merely asking for the same treatment to those who perpetrated the vile act. Most people feel the same way when someone they love is violated in such a manner. It's a psalm of emotionally distraught feeling.
We live in an age where hardly anyone truly understands the Bible anymore. The OT is NOT the key to the NT. You have it backwards. The NT is the “key” to the OT . “Ephesians 3:5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men….” Those things were a mystery. They are explained by the new. Those who live by the OT, I have to wonder if they actually know the true Jesus. The OT was for this: “Romans 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.” We can learn from the OLD but the NEW is to be our guide and explain what the OLD really meant. Quit shooting yourself. Turn the gum around if you want to hit the target. Galatians tells us we are no longer under tutors and governors. Collossians: beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit. So much more but you have to “work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.”
Due to the King James Bible and Catholic Douay Version translators mistranslating the Greek word diatheke at 2 Corinthians 3:14 as "testament", instead of accurately as "covenant", this pushed the false belief that the Bible is divided into "the Old Testament" and "the New Testament". This makes it appear as if they are separate from each other, when in fact, the Bible is ONE composite book, with NO divisions, with the 39 "books" of the Hebrew Scriptures and the 27 "books" of the Christian Greek Scriptures, as ONE book, in which they are like "husband and wife", "one flesh", whereby one explains the other.(Gen 2:24) At 2 Corinthians 3:12-16, the apostle Paul accurately wrote: "Since we have such a hope, we are using great freeness of speech, and not doing what Moses did when he would put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel might not gaze intently at the end of what was to be done away with. But their minds were dulled" "For to this present day, the same veil remains unlifted when the old (Mosaic Law) covenant ("old covenant", Greek palaias diathekes) is read (by the Jews in their synagogues), because it is taken away only by means of Christ. In fact, to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies upon their hearts. But when one turns to Jehovah (God's name, see Ex 6:3, KJV), the veil (of spiritual blindness) is taken away."(2013 New World Translation) At Hebrews 10:16, the apostle Paul quotes from Jeremiah 31:31-34 regarding the Mosaic Law "covenant" being replaced with "a new covenant", whereby the King James Bible accurately renders diatheke as "covenant", while the Catholic Douay Version inaccurately reads as "testament". For example, at Genesis 3:15 in the Hebrew Scriptures, the first prophecy of the Bible (and one of the last to be fulfilled) is given immediately upon the rebellion in the garden of Eden.(Gen 3:1-6) Who is "the woman" and who are her "offspring", and who is "the serpent" and who are his "offspring" ?(see John 8:44) The "woman" and her "offspring " are mentioned several times in the Bible "book" of Isaiah (chpts 49, 54, 60, 62, 66). Jesus says, quoting Isaiah 54:13, that this ' woman's sons ' would be "taught by Jehovah" at John 6:45 and this "woman" is seen again at Revelation 12, whereby she gives birth to "a male, that is to shepherd all the nations with an iron rod".(Rev 12:5) So, who or what is the "woman" and "a male" at Revelation 12:1, 5 ? (Note: "a male" is it NOT Jesus per se, but is composed of much more, for just as the "woman" is symbolic, so also "a male") Without understanding the Hebrew Scriptures, a person CANNOT understand the Christians Greek Scriptures, or the Bible as a "whole", one book, unable to grasp the Bible's central theme, and please Jehovah God.(see 2 Tim 3:16, 17)
@@Crich_Leslie Accuracy of translation never changes, for the number "ten" 400 years ago means the same today (see Gen 16:3; 18:32), and in which an accurate understanding of both Hebrew and Greek was in its "infancy" then, but still somewhat possible. For example, the King James Bible and Catholic Douay Version and other translators did not understand the Greek word "Raca" at Matthew 5:22 that means "an unspeakable word of contempt" nor the Greek word "hosanna" at Matthew 21:15, that means "save, we pray", and in which they left them untranslated. The Greek word diatheke NEVER meant "testament" (that comes from the Greek word marturia, meaning "evidence given" or a person's "testimony" or "testament", as at Mark 14:55), but rather "covenant", in which the King James Bible and other translators failed in ACCURATELY translating it (as at Matt 26:28; Mark 14:24; Luke 22:20; 1 Cor 11:25). The King James Bible is translated correctly diatithemia (G1303) as "covenant" at Hebrews 8:10 (while the Catholic Douay Version reads as "testament"), because the quotation is from Jeremiah 31:33, whereby "covenant" is found, and in which the Greek word diatithemia is the root word of diatheke (G1242) that means "a disposition, a contract". The Bible encyclopedia Insight on the Scriptures makes this comment on diatheke: "Although the obvious meaning of di·a·the´ke in the Christian Greek Scriptures is in the ancient Hebrew sense of “covenant,” many modern translators render di·a·the´ke in Heb 9:16, 17 as “will” or “testament.” They thus indicate that the writer of the book of Hebrews intended a change of meaning for this Greek word." "However, the Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, by John McClintock and James Strong, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1981 reprint, Vol. II, p. 544, states: “The Sept. (or Greek Septuagint) having rendered (Hebrew) רית (which never means will or testament, but always covenant or agreement) by διαθήκη consistently throughout the O. T., the N. T. writers, in adopting that word, may naturally be supposed to intend to convey to their readers, most of them familiar with the Greek O. T., the SAME idea. . . . " "In the confessedly difficult passage, Heb. ix, 16, 17, the word διαθήκη has been thought by many commentators absolutely to require the meaning of will or testament. On the other side, however, it may be alleged that, in addition to what has just been said as to the usual meaning of the word in the N. T., the word occurs twice in the context, where its meaning must necessarily be the same as the translation of (Hebrew) רית ("covenant"), and in the unquestionable sense of covenant (comp. διαθήκη καινή [di·a·the´ke kai·ne´, “new covenant”], Heb. ix, 15, with the same expression in viii, 8; and διαθήκη, ix, 16, 17, with ver. 20, and Exod. xxiv, 8).” At Colossians 1:9, 10, the apostle Paul wrote: "That is also why from the day we heard of it, we have never stopped praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the accurate knowledge ("accurate knowledge", Greek epignosis, meaning "PRECISE and correct knowledge") of his will in all wisdom and spiritual comprehension, so as to walk worthily of Jehovah in order to please him fully as you go on bearing fruit in every good work and INCREASING in the accurate knowledge of God." So, this should cause a sincere Bible reader to reevaluate what Bible they read, wanting an ACCURATE Bible that is NOT "out of date", causing them to "get lost", but one that "takes them straight to home". The 2013 New World Translation does just that.
@@Crich_Leslie The English word "covenant" or a binding contract is the ACCURATE meaning of the Hebrew word berith (H1285, and found 284 times in the Bible), as at Genesis 15:18 and Jeremiah 31:31-34 and the Greek word diatheke (G1242, and found 33 times in the Bible), as at and 2 Corinthians 3:14 and Hebrews 8:7-10, 13. Of the word "testimony" (or "witness"), it is the Hebrew word 'eduwth (H5715, and found 59 times in the Bible), as at Exodus 16:34; 25:16, 21, 22; 26:34 and the Greek word martys (G3144, and found 35 times in the Bible), as at Matthew 18:16; 2 Cor 13:1; 1 Tim 5:19; 6:19, as well as martyria (G3141, and found 37 times in the Bible) as "testimony" at Mark 14:55.(Note: Context determines its accurate meaning) So, the word "testament" is NOT the same as "covenant", or binding contract (see Gen 15:5-16), though one dictionary states: "judeo-christian covenant between God and humankind: a covenant made between God and humankind (archaic or formal)."(Microsoft Encarta Reference Library 2005), for it is the Bible, an ACCURATE Bible, that establishes the meaning of Hebrew and Greek words (as well as Aramaic). So, at 2 Corinthians 3:14, the apostle Paul did NOT say "old testament", but "old covenant" or the Mosaic Law covenant that was established in 1513 B.C.E. between the nation of fleshly Israel and God, whose name is Jehovah.(see Ex 6:3, KJV) The English word "testimony" is also an accurate translation of the Greek word stoma, meaning "the mouth" (G4750, and found 78 times in the Bible), as at Matthew 18:16, that reads: "But if he does not listen, take along with you one or two more, so that on the testimony ("testimony", Greek stoma or "with the mouth", see Matt 4:4; 15:11, 18; Luke 1:70) of two or three witnesses ("witnesses", Greek martys) every matter may be established."(2013 New World Translation) Of the Greek word martys, the King James Bible translators often renders it as "witness(es)", as at Luke 11:48; 1 Tim 5:19, 6:12, and 2 Tim 2:2, and renders it as "martyrs" at Revelation 17:6, while the 2013 New World Translation reads at Revelation 17:6: "And I saw that the (symbolic) woman (Babylon the Great, Rev 17:5, the religions of the world, of which Christendom is a major part) was (symbolically) drunk with the blood of the holy ones and with the blood of the witnesses (Greek martys) of Jesus (having murdered them in "the name of God", see John 16:2; Rev 6:9-11)." At John 3:11, two associate words of martys is used, whereby the King James Bible reads: "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness", while accurately it reads: "Most truly I say to you, what we know we speak," "and what we have seen we bear witness to ("bear witness to", Greek martyreo, G3140, meaning "to be a witness, to bear witness", found 79 times in the Bible, with martys being its root word), but you do not receive the witness ("witness", Greek martyria, G3141, meaning "evidence given, testimony", with martys being its root word) we give."(2013 New World Translation) So, accuracy (such as nuances of words) is essential in understanding the Bible and pleasing Jehovah God, in which this is seen at Colossians 1:9, 10: "That is also why from the day we heard of it, we have never stopped praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the accurate knowledge ("accurate knowledge", Greek epignosis, meaning "PRECISE and correct knowledge") of his will in all wisdom and spiritual comprehension, so as to walk WORTHILY of Jehovah in order to please him fully as you go on bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the accurate knowledge of God."
But the New Testament could survive without the Old Testament. And someone could still be a Christian without reading the Old Testament (although understanding Hebrews might prove difficult lol). The opposite certainly is not true, however...
How can God regret something he knew was going to happen? The idea of an omniscient being feeling regret is no-sensical. You claim that it is above all else, true. So please explain.
The reason for the flood, is mankind rejected the Gospel of the Lord, except Noah and his family. To truly understand the Bible, you must view it through the gospel of Jesus Christ. Humanity is inherently wicked, as Isaiah 1:4 reveals, and this is why we need a Savior. Man will continue to sin until the Day of the Lord or our last breath (1 John 1:8), and salvation cannot come through our own efforts (Galatians 2:21). Only faith in Jesus Christ brings eternal life. The flood of Noah was a direct reflection of this gospel truth. Noah preached righteousness to a sinful world that rejected God (Hebrews 11:7, 2 Peter 2:5). Just as Noah’s flood came upon a disobedient world, so will judgement fall again in the end times. Noah's message, like the gospel today, was about salvation by faith-he believed God, while the world perished in unbelief. As in the days of Noah, few will be saved, as Jesus Himself asks, “Will He find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8). Nineveh, on the other hand, repented, and God spared them from destruction (Jonah 3:10). This shows that God’s mercy is available to all who turn to Him, but Sodom and Gomorrah’s total annihilation proves what happens when there is no faith (Genesis 18:32, Isaiah 1:9). Capernaum rejected the miracles and message of Christ, and it led to their judgement (Matthew 11:23). Isaiah 1:7 emphasizes the devastation of rejecting God’s offer of salvation. The message is clear: without faith in Jesus Christ, judgement is inevitable. The gospel was preached even in Noah's time, and those who reject it will face destruction just as in the flood.
The Lord and apostles quoted the Torah - the law and the prophets, must has yet to be fulfilled, yet millions of professing nominal Christians claim the law has been "done away", due to false teachers, liberal and unbiblical teachings.
Ask yourself, Is it the creator God, who is a moral monster? Or is it that God is having to deal with many of His children who are moral monsters? Judging from all written human history and the horrible atrocities we've committed in the past and present, I'd say the latter. if one of your children were a raping, stealing, murdering monster, wouldn't you still love him, but would you condone his actions and act as if nothing happened. You wouldn't want him around your other children. we've done far worse to each other for no good reason than what God has done for a good reason. Keep in mind God didn't have to save anyone through Noah's flood. He could have wiped us all out. We don't practice capital punishment any longer and our prisons have become overflowing bed-and-breakfast institutions and look at what it has gotten us. Rinse and repeat! We might as well put revolving doors on our prisons. this is why the world is so wicked these days. Many people no longer believe in God or fear His punishment so they do what they want. The only time people acknowledge God is when they want to blame Him for something they caused themselves. Grow up, people!
Ecclesiastes is talking about all of life and everything in it, "under the sun" as being vain (empty, meaningless) that is, life without God. This is the outcropping of a naturalistic worldview.
The Israelites couldn't have been in Egypt 400 years. It isn't mathematically possible. Moses' grandfather came down with Jacob. There wasn't 400 years before Moses left.
Exo. 12:40-41 literally states that the Israelites lived in Egypt for 430 yrs. Not only is it mathematically impossible, God told their ancestor Abraham that they wouldn't leave Egypt for 4 generations in Gen. 15 because He wanted to give the Canaanites that amount of time to repent before His judgement came upon them.
Yep…. It’s all been fulfilled, all Gods promises came true. Preterism is very much the truth of scripture. Covenant covenant covenant. We go to heaven when we die if we believe. Plus nothing minus nothing.
This man fails to give an honest answer to the cruelty of the god of the Old Testament by deflecting the subject to the canonites as scapegoat , as if the canonites were the malignant foe from the very beginning. Nothing else than moral dishonesty.
Jesus refuted the Old Testament many times and his main theme was the abolition of sacrifice and asceticism. Repentance not atonement for the remission of sins. The Old Testament is full of the depiction of sacrifice as a priestly office. Jesus wants none of that. He feasted, without washing his hands, and without throwing even a pinch of salt over his shoulder . The Transfiguration is about leaving Moses and Elijah behind and following the words of Jesus. There’s no way Jesus was a strict by the letter Torah observant Jew. The spirit of the law supersedes the letter. Jesus was entirely spiritual.
Isn't it the other way round? The New (Fresh!) Testament is key to understanding the Old Testament. Jesus showed it to his disciples as well... 'Opening their eyes'.
You can not understand the spiritual unless you first understand the physical. You can not understand John 1 unless you understand Genesis 1. You can not understand the very meaning of The Last Adam's name unless you understand the first Adam's fall.
@@auh2o148 It's the other way round. First understand the spiritual than understand the physical... Genesis a1-2 does only make sense once you grasped John 1.
@@metapolitikgedanken612 you wouldn't even know what Heaven is without Paradise. You wouldn't know about YHWH's throne without the Ark of the Covenant. No, you go to the spiritual first to be shown and understand the natural; only then can you begin to understand the supernatural.
No. Christ taught the disciples proved that He was the Messiah by teaching from the Law and the Prophets. A person will not truly understand the Second Testament without understanding the First Testament. The Law and the Prophets were the basis of everything the apostles teach, and it's obvious given the frequency at which they quote or reference those sections.
It doesn't refer to plural actually. No Hebrew speaker, scholar or Jew has ever thought that. Why? Because the VERB used is singular. What "Elohim" denotes is the majesty, the greatness (big-ness) of God.
I actually disagree with the title, "the old testament is key to understanding the New" The very reason why we have a NEW testament, or a NEW covenant is because the people of Israel rejected the Lord. Example God said in Exodus 19:5-6 *IF IF IF* ye will, obey... then ye shall be unto me.." Problem is they did not obey the Lord and God regarded them NOT! Hebrews 8:9 kjv We believers through Jesus Christ being the singular seed of Abraham Galatians 3:16 are the royal priesthood the holy people Galatians 3:29 and 1 Peter 2:9 Galatians 3:7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. Only those who believe in Jesus Christ are the nation of Israel Romans 9:6-8 If they want to be grafted back into the Lord who is the vine, they MUST become believers in the Lord John 14:6 There is no other way for them to be saved. Therefore *UNDERSTANDING* the entire bible, both covenants is through Jesus Christ, he is the key to understanding all scripture. His gospel was taught by Noah and preached to an unbelieving world who rejected the Lord Hebrews 11:7,2 Peter 2:5 KJV and as the days of Noah were, so shall be the coming of the Lord. Luke 18:8 "...when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?” There is only one covenant people, those who believe in Jesus. In conclusion. Jesus Christ is the singular focus of both the Old and New Covenants, with all Scripture pointing to Him. Faith in Christ is the defining mark of God's covenant people, and those who do not believe, whether Jew or Gentile, are not part of the true "Israel."
@@Daniel90210 The gospel is one, by Noah, by the prophets, by John the Baptist, and by Jesus Christ: repent and return to God, to the obedience to his commandments. If we don't know anything about the commandments we don't know what is good or what is sin, we are morally blinded, and we could be living a sinful life without knowing it, because "by the law id the knowledge of sin". We are saved by faith, but keeping God's commandments, we are pleasing our heavenly Father, and he bless us, because blessings come by obedience. Please read carefully Matthew 5:17-48, there is Jesus Christ teaching about his commandments (he as the word of God was with Moses in the mountain). Blessings in His Holy name!
@@luisea930 You are totally rejecting Jesus Christ, let me explain, through your works Titus 1:16 So you are saying, we must obey the Laws of Moses, to abide in them, if we break them we are sinning and that we need to "repent from sins" to be saved? So if righteousness comes by the Law Jesus then died in Vain Galatians 2:21 If Jesus Christ gives us his FREE GIFT of eternal life, never ever to lose it, by simply believing in him by faith John 10:28 Why the worry over sin? Let me give you a secret, everyone sins, we all do, every day we will sin until the day of the Lord or our last breath. 1 John 1:8 We don't "repent from sins" to be saved, we repent from unbelief in the Lord to believers, once we believe God freely gives us his free gift of eternal life not by works but by faith. If we had to "repent of our sins" why did God repent 33x's in the Old Testament? Are you saying God repented from sins? haha of course not, God repented, meaning Metanoia, a change of mind Example Genesis 6:6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. Also you said we must obey his commandments, yes I agree 1 John 3:23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment. Our commandment is to BELIEVE in Jesus Christ. If you think you must "repent of sins" to be saved, - that phrase is not even in the bible, - you are rejecting the Lord through works of the Law Titus 1:16 Galatians 2:16 Romans 3:20 Romans 3:28 Acts 13:39 The Gospel is to believe in the Lord John 3:18 John 3:36
@@Daniel90210 We are saved by faith, but faith within work is dead faith. We have to be holy to be able to see God, of course that the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses our sins but only if we repent from our sins and leave the sinful behavior. "We are saved for good works", do you remember that verse? We are not justified by works, but by the sacrifice of the Messiah, but we are required to walk in the same way he walked, if we claim to be their followers. Check this: "[17] Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. [18] For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. [19] Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. [20] For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven." We cannot despise the instructions given to us to live a holy life, you herd Him, he said that we will be "nothing" in the Kingdom of heaven. And about the Pharisees, they were called hypocrits because they obeyed "Talmud" instead what Jesus Christ taught to his disciples as a Rabbi: the law of Moses. They simulated obeying God, but not, they obeyed their men-mad laws fruit of the takanots given by their pharisaic rabbis. Honoring men and despising God, that's why Jesus Christ rejected most of their pharisaic authorities calling the "hypocrites". As an example, sometimes we do the same, we honor the Catholic Church (with the emperor Constantine) that established the Sunday as the "day of the Lord", despising God's direct instructions about the Shabbat. Without transit laws our highways would turn in a disaster, the same is happening all over the occident, the churches deceived by satan are despising the commandments of God and what are the results? Day by day more churches are leaving the true gospel for a twisted one. God through the prophet said: "[14] if my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." We must repent, all the decadence is in part our fault, because we prefer comfort over a real relationship with God.
@@Daniel90210 Remember that Jesus Christ is the word of God, that means that Moses was talking with Jesus Christ in his eternal form as God, so He was the one who gave the law to Moses. How can we despise something that he gave to us to live a holy life? We cannot keep all the commandments because some are specific for Levites, others for the high priest, others for women, others for people who have cattle, etc. But we can love God over everything, we can honor our parents, we can avoid sexual immorality....living like that means the rejection of Jesus Christ? Maybe the rejection of a religion, but that's the way our Master lives and told us to live. Blessings in the holy name of Jesus Christ.
Disagree all you want, but 2 Tim. 3 says ALL scripture is profitable for instruction in righteousness, and that a person is ill equipped to do God's Work without every word He inspired. Israel's rejection of God doesn't somehow make the Law and the Prophets uninspired text, and to foolishly make this argument makes you guilty of what Christ called "making the word of God of no effect" in Mar. 7. You're essentially telling ppl to ignore God.
There are 2 gods in the OT, one with a big G, one with a little one, those that can't see this I don't know what to say, but it seems rather obvious imo. Those heretical Jewish texts incorporated into the OT are directly contradictory to Christian ways, this is also why there are clearly 2 creation stories in the OT, that contradict each other. Takes you all of a paragraph to figure this out. I'll also argue the point that the OT was Jesus's bible, there's no mention he read or studied it as far as I can tell. He knew of Adem and the flood, because.. of course he did.. he's God.
The New Testament is infinitely more important than the Old. Just as Christ Jesus infinitely more important than Moses. The Old Testament is only the background to the real story, not the revelation of God's salvation and love that is resorted in the New.
Not really. The Old Testament is the first part of the New. The New is a continuation of the Pentateuch and without it, the New Testament makes no sense nor can you have proper exegesis when studying the New. All kinds of false doctrines get started by groups of people leaving out the Pentateuch. For example in Daniel 9 Gabriel tells Daniel the exact DAY that Messiah would ride into Jerusalem and be publicly executed. But more importantly, you wouldn't even know why the world and people are in the state they are in or why the cross needed to happen in the first place without the Old Testament. The Bible is ONE COMPLETE NARRATIVE. Not two books, one being more important than the other, its ALL important.
Jesus Christ made the Old Testament largely redundant…. What’s hidden in the Old Testament is revealed in the New and what’s revealed in the New is hidden in the Old Testament…. Old Testament allows us to know the history of mankind… but salvation comes to mankind through the New covenant
All of Jesus’s teachings were from the Old Testament, more particularly the Torah - God’s commands. If Jesus taught against God’s commands, he would have been sinning and unable to have been the perfect unblemished lamb.
@@courtneyd7213 Jesus didn't teach against the Torah but he didn't continue it either. You need to study the meaning of the word "fulfill". It's important. He says he didn't come to abolish the law but to FULFILL it.
When I was in Seminary, I took a class on how the Old Testament relates to the New.
One thing that struck me by surprise was the author of the textbook and the professor taught that unless the New Testament confirmed something in the old, that part of the Old Testament was irrelevant.
Paul said, " All Scripture...."
Old and New Testament is the- Whole counsel of God.
Totally the contrary, if something in the new testament goes against the old testament, something is wrong, especially if it's related to the Father's will, because anything going against the commandments of God (the ones that can be applied to anybody like the law of Moses), because the law defines what is righteous and what is a sin.
If Jesus Christ in the new testament broke any commandment, he would be a sinner and he would be disqualified as the Messiah.
So everything that Jesus Christ said and his disciples (Paul included) must be read (interpreted) in the context of the old testament.
Sure, salvation was always by faith (Hebrews 10), so sal nation in the new testament continues to be by faith.
If something in the new testament goes against the old testament maybe our translation is wrong or we misunderstood what we are reading. Jesus Christ Bible was the old testament, especially the Torah, because he was a teacher of the law of Moses, a Rabbi, a teacher who taught Torah to his disciples (his students).
So everything that Jesus said was in that context, because Jesus Christ is the word of God, he was the one speaking with Moses in the mountains, the one in the mountain was not the father because the father is invisible, the one who shown his back to moses was Jesus Christ. Jesus as the word of God gave Moses the law, how could he go against his own word?
Without the old testament we cannot understand the new testament.
Jesus said to the rich man in the punishment fire: "they have Moses and the prophets...".
Salvation is by faith but faith without works is dead faith. In the law are defined by Jesus Christ itself the good works and the bad works.
If we do good things we are practicing righteousness, if we don't care about what God defines as holy and we do according to our opinion, we are doing unrighteousness, that is sin, and to be able to see God we must be holy, something achievable through the obedience to the will of God by the power of the Holy Spirit (that came with the new covenant).
@luisea930
I actually wrote an email to the author and copied the professor. I was stunned at their seemingly disregard for the Old Testament. I asked the question of how could they be so dismissive of the Book that Jesus taught from.
It would explain why some or a lot of pastors don't preach from the Old Testament. .
@@pebbles9908What do you think of the idea that the Old Testament was for the Jews and while it may foretell Jesus's arrival, the New Testament tells us His life and teachings. Jesus was Jewish but to many, He moved away from Judaism and created Christianity, which is why He said He came with a sword, knowing full well he was dividing families.
A deep dive into the Old testament reveals many terrible stories of abuse, slavery, adultery and wrong doing that often appears to be totally irrelevant and our of place in a Holy book.
Focussing on the New Testament, doing our best to observe the 2 commandments He gave us and doing our best to become better people, are much more important endeavours than mulling over the old testament.
Just my thoughts
What statement of Paul are you referring to. The OT text can only be understood when the NT text is understood first, because only the Spirit of truth can give you that understanding. Previously adherents of the OT did not have the Holy Spirit as a norm, but were following formal ordinances.
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Thank God for another GREAT video.
I am currently reading the Old Testament for the first time, have known about the science for almost 50 years.
The speaker, Peter, has shed some ;ight on things that I found puzzling / apparently inconsistent myself.
As an aside, a bit like Richard Dawkins' "apparent design" which is the sort of design one has when the entity / component is CLEARLY and OBVIOUSLY designed but the observer deceives himself and others about the designer because he refuses to admit that design MANDATES a designer.
I shall definitely be watching this video several more times>
Thankyou so very much.
I know this is cliche. But often the simple explanations are the easiest to convey a message. “It takes the whole Bible to make a whole Christian.” Great episode!! So thankful for this channel.
This is why I have a lot of respect for messianic Jews. They get it. They don't disregard the old testament, they know that the Bible is a single saga. The old testament is part of the story of Jesus.
@@beestoe993 We won't understand anything if we read from the the last page. Without the right context, the understanding of some core doctrines of the Bible would be nearly impossible, because we don't have a perfect relationship with God and our hearts could deceive us, making us think that that inner voice is the holy Spirit. But the holy Spirit will never go against the scriptures.
I have been a Christian for decades. My faith had huge conflicts until I started understanding the Old Testament particularly the 1st 5 books. Read the Old Testament without the blinkers modern Christian theology places upon us and know what to look for and the Old Testament will blow your mind. Standard theology says grace was the result of Christ’s death on the cross. Sorry read what Moses did at the incident involving the Golden Calf. Moses acting as a type of Christ interceded for the Israelite nation putting his own life on the line. Consider also of all the prophets in the Bible, Moses was the only one the see God face to face. That makes him really special. The words given to Moses (Torah) were directly from God’s conversation with Moses. But if you then say that what Jesus did replaces the Old Testament then you have a problem. If God can’t change as it’s an inherit part His nature then be careful that you are saying God changes His mind. If that is the case your faith as a Christian is built on a foundation of sand. What’s to stop God changing His mind again!! Sorry if God can change His mind then I am out of believing in God. It’s a faith built on contradiction. Sorry but seriously look at what you believe and if you find a contradiction then ask God to resolve the contradiction. When God reveals the answer it will blow your mind about who the God we follow truly is. We will come to realise who and what he did and how we should respond. If we say Jesus did away with the Law then we had better ask ourselves ‘all the Law’, ‘some of the law in which case what laws did He do away with’ or ‘none of the law’. What Old Testament law do I need to follow and not follow. Can anyone tell me where explicitly Jesus taught this law is done away with and this particular law stays. It’s not in Jesus teachings and if you believe you have the verse which is a blanket cover for all laws then understand the context as if you were person listening to him endowed with knowledge of the culture of the time. Don’t plug in western 20th century thinking, it will trip you up.
I donʼt know about the wording, but Godʼs grace was always given thru Christʼs sacrifice.
His grace & sacrifice were announced as soon as man sinned (Gen 3ː15).
And Rev 13ː8 calls Him «the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.»
The proclamation of the Gospel has been called the “revelation of a secret hidden for long ages” (Rom 16ː25)
This is not to discount anything you said; itʼs just to add that Christʼs sacrifice has always been the basis for Godʼs extension of grace to sinners since the Fall.
Moses as a type of Christ? Sorry no
Nice video. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 love the topics you brought up. And answered some questions some people may have. Answers in Genesis also answered these questions.
Blaise Pascal, and Augustine . Both of those guys's quotes are written in the beginning of CS Lewis's Mere Christianity. l bought that book in a used book store 30 years ago, and never forgot how amazing it was. Thank You Jesus for any understanding You have blessed a cement head like me with! :)
I love reading the Bible Jesus read!
Thank you for this teaching. Such a blessing! Personally, I love the OT and I love reading through the Bible from year to year leaving out nothing. The intricacies of Scripture is utterly mind blowing.
You can't appreciate Grace unless you understand the impossibility of fulfilling the law. Thank You Jesus.
Wow, what a great interview! Great advice on great topics. Thanks much to you both.
Thank you for sharing this, CMI 🙏🙏🙏✝️ much appreciated, as always. The books of the OT ultimately point us to the NT. It's impossible to understand the New without the Old. God bless!
Great!
Jesus didn’t just quote it, he wrote it !
He *IS* it!
As it is written Jesus is the Word itself made flesh. He is the Son because He, as the Word, is from God but God Himself at the same time.
The disticntion between old and new is of gentile origins. The original Judeans certainly didn't have that division. Said "new testament books" all teach from "old testament books", there's no discontinuation in their view.
The new covenant is in fact a renewal of the old covenant. Simple difference being a change of the sacerdotal duties. Jesus Christ being the high priest now (Book of Hebrews) offering His perfect blood, and the gift of the holy Spirit being our teacher in all Truths, bringing to our rememberance all He heard from the father. Faith cometh by hearing, and what we hear is the Word of God, that instruct us in rigtheousness.
(Isaiah 8:20)
20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
well said in a short time👍,
God bless, matthew6:33, proverbs3:5
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The entire sermon on the mount is in the OT somewhere. Paul's teachings are all in the OT somewhere. People miss the truth in the OT because they see story after story and history after history. People think the OT is some history book and not spiritual truth like the NT.
Yes, the gospels, and all the apostolic scriptures are full of verses from the OT, because the NT is the continuation of the OT, and because Jesus Christ is the word of God, that is the one that was talking to Moses on the mountain, and who show Moses his back, because God is invisible and when the father speaks, is the Son who is speaking.
Jesus said: before Moses I am, we need the OT not only to understand the NT, but to be aware of the instructions of God to his people to live a holy and productive life.
Salvation is by faith but blessings come by obedience to the Word of God, that is, his instructions.
Good discussion. God's word is consistent.
Revelation especially refers much to the OT.
We must remember that the Old Testament does not provide for the complete salvation for mankind. For that, we DO need the New Testament and Jesus!
How God deals with sinful man in the Old Testament IS harsh-- but WE were the ones who disobeyed and walked away from him. The degree to which he deals harshly with our pre-redeemed nature IS in accordance with his plan for total redemption and restoration through Christ. In essence, God HAS the right to deal with us harshly until we DO accept his Son as our Redeemer! Amen!
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I don’t understand why Jesus needed to read the Old Testament when that complete knowledge was in him naturally. God learning from the book that God himself wrote? Not clear to me.
9:35 - The you ask a very important question. Your question is - "Can you give some examples of New Testament passages that actually makes no sense without the Old Testament?
If I may, I would like to answer this question as well.
Jesus said, "If ye love me, keep my commandments." - John 14:15. If the law was done away at the cross then it would make no sense for Jesus to tell us to keep the commandments.
And there many Christians who believe that we must obey the commandments, but only 9 of the commandments and not all the Ten. But even this would make no sense because all the Ten is one who law of love, if you break one you break all.
When I asked Ray Comfort regarding this, he said he is only interested in the 9 of the Ten Commandments and not all of the Ten.
I hope and pray that your response will not be like his.
Woah, what one do they leave out???
So the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen?
If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door.
Its desire is for you, but you should rule over it.” I don't know what YOU think, but to ME
it sounds like God was talking to someone CAPABLE of make a rational decision - and promising to reward him for it.
It's Word of God all of it.
Do you hold the inspired perfect infallible and complete words of God in a perfect book preserved in your language by an Almighty God with the revealed named Jesus?
Thompson Chain Reference Bible-Henry Morris Study Bible-The Evidence Study Bible.
Wouldn't let me edit...I get a return error, so I have to say one last thing. The Old Testament, tells you how you got here, why you are here and what you are supposed to do. It also tells you about the evil ones you need to stay away from. It explains the pretty lights in the sky. It's a book that tells you how to navigate this world and the wickedness you encounter. We are living in a fallen world. We must always remember that. Our job is to elevate this world, make it holy. GOD can not enter an unholy place. GOD needs us. We don't need GOD. Rabbi Mannis Friedman said that. GOD said..this is what you gotta do, to be with me. I want you with me, but to be with me, you must do this and this etc....along those lines. He said to think of it that way. That was for his Jewish audience tho. I'm Christian, but the Old Testament is all I really get into. That whole preflood world was crazy times. I can't imagine giant human looking beings roaming the land. I'm Native American and we have those oral traditions too. In fact much of our oral history weaves seamlessly with the old testament.
Although it is technically possible that Jesus could have gotten his hands on a printed copy of the Old Testament since they were "available" at the time of Jesus' life and Teaching. Just like what happened to Jesus from 12 to 33 is, for the most part, unknown; there is nothing in any of the text that would indicate that He did anything but read the Torah scroll that was handed to Him after it was fetched from the "aron hakodesh".
The boys at that time were required to write their copy of the Old Testament for them to study as prepared for their bar mitzah.
these type, of presentations show how weak the teaching is, in most, if not all Churches...
It's the Bible Jesus wrote. He is the word of God.
Jesus and His Disciples specifically used the Septuagint.
That is extraordinarily unlikely. Jesus and his Galilean buddies almost certainly were not fluent in Greek. They probably knew enough to transact business with the odd foreign vendor in the marketplace, but that isn't fluency.
I don't know what's going on with such verses, but it is dubious in the extreme for Galilean peasants to be conversant, fluently, in Greek. They might have had the Septuagint translated into Aramaic or something in the local congregation they grew up with.
Where would Jesus have gotten his hands on a Greek copy of the Septuagint to start with? He spent pretty much all his time (that we know anything about) in the Galilean countryside. Other than a few brief moments in Jerusalem as a kid, we have him as most people then were -- a person who lived their life in rural environments. His father was a carpenter; Jesus was probably busy learning that trade, not sitting in a rabbi's house reading up on stuff.
Books were not common things in those days. All hand copied. Each local congregation _might_ have one book, probably the Torah and maybe a handful of others. Qumran did not have complete bibles. It had a wide variety of individual manuscripts. That was the norm then.
Of course, as a member of the godhead, none of this is necessary for Jesus, direct revelation can be presumed, but neither is it necessary or likely in _that_ case that Jesus uses a translated Bible. However, his disciples had no such advantage and the idea that they saw, much less studied, the Septuagint just doesn't wash.
@@curious968 All I know for sure is that when The Evangelists and Paul quote The Old Testament, they do so from the Greek Septuagint.
@@TickedOffPriest I believe you are quite correct here.
It is also by itself a reason to doubt the traditional assignment of authorship of at least Matthew, Mark, and John.
Paul/Saul and Luke were, so far as I know, likely if not outright known to have been educated in Greek. But the rest, as Galilean peasants, almost certainly were not.
Jesus quoted the septuagint, which is ironic seeing he was a Hebrew. So much for being the oracles of God.
😂 as if you were there to hear exactly what he said. The word was settled in heaven before creation.
The Israelites were taught an eye for an eye justice system. Because Babylonian soldiers (or those working for them) took the Jewish infants and smashed their heads on rocks, the Psalmist was merely asking for the same treatment to those who perpetrated the vile act. Most people feel the same way when someone they love is violated in such a manner. It's a psalm of emotionally distraught feeling.
We live in an age where hardly anyone truly understands the Bible anymore. The OT is NOT the key to the NT. You have it backwards. The NT is the “key” to the OT .
“Ephesians 3:5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men….” Those things were a mystery. They are explained by the new. Those who live by the OT, I have to wonder if they actually know the true Jesus. The OT was for this: “Romans 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.” We can learn from the OLD but the NEW is to be our guide and explain what the OLD really meant. Quit shooting yourself. Turn the gum around if you want to hit the target. Galatians tells us we are no longer under tutors and governors. Collossians: beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit. So much more but you have to “work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.”
Two things can be right at the same time. Saying that, I agree. Without the NT we would be reading the OT.
Due to the King James Bible and Catholic Douay Version translators mistranslating the Greek word diatheke at 2 Corinthians 3:14 as "testament", instead of accurately as "covenant", this pushed the false belief that the Bible is divided into "the Old Testament" and "the New Testament".
This makes it appear as if they are separate from each other, when in fact, the Bible is ONE composite book, with NO divisions, with the 39 "books" of the Hebrew Scriptures and the 27 "books" of the Christian Greek Scriptures, as ONE book, in which they are like "husband and wife", "one flesh", whereby one explains the other.(Gen 2:24)
At 2 Corinthians 3:12-16, the apostle Paul accurately wrote: "Since we have such a hope, we are using great freeness of speech, and not doing what Moses did when he would put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel might not gaze intently at the end of what was to be done away with. But their minds were dulled"
"For to this present day, the same veil remains unlifted when the old (Mosaic Law) covenant ("old covenant", Greek palaias diathekes) is read (by the Jews in their synagogues), because it is taken away only by means of Christ. In fact, to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies upon their hearts. But when one turns to Jehovah (God's name, see Ex 6:3, KJV), the veil (of spiritual blindness) is taken away."(2013 New World Translation)
At Hebrews 10:16, the apostle Paul quotes from Jeremiah 31:31-34 regarding the Mosaic Law "covenant" being replaced with "a new covenant", whereby the King James Bible accurately renders diatheke as "covenant", while the Catholic Douay Version inaccurately reads as "testament".
For example, at Genesis 3:15 in the Hebrew Scriptures, the first prophecy of the Bible (and one of the last to be fulfilled) is given immediately upon the rebellion in the garden of Eden.(Gen 3:1-6) Who is "the woman" and who are her "offspring", and who is "the serpent" and who are his "offspring" ?(see John 8:44)
The "woman" and her "offspring " are mentioned several times in the Bible "book" of Isaiah (chpts 49, 54, 60, 62, 66). Jesus says, quoting Isaiah 54:13, that this ' woman's sons ' would be "taught by Jehovah" at John 6:45 and this "woman" is seen again at Revelation 12, whereby she gives birth to "a male, that is to shepherd all the nations with an iron rod".(Rev 12:5)
So, who or what is the "woman" and "a male" at Revelation 12:1, 5 ? (Note: "a male" is it NOT Jesus per se, but is composed of much more, for just as the "woman" is symbolic, so also "a male") Without understanding the Hebrew Scriptures, a person CANNOT understand the Christians Greek Scriptures, or the Bible as a "whole", one book, unable to grasp the Bible's central theme, and please Jehovah God.(see 2 Tim 3:16, 17)
“Testament” was a proper translation at the time. The usage of the word has changed over the centuries.
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Accuracy of translation never changes, for the number "ten" 400 years ago means the same today (see Gen 16:3; 18:32), and in which an accurate understanding of both Hebrew and Greek was in its "infancy" then, but still somewhat possible.
For example, the King James Bible and Catholic Douay Version and other translators did not understand the Greek word "Raca" at Matthew 5:22 that means "an unspeakable word of contempt" nor the Greek word "hosanna" at Matthew 21:15, that means "save, we pray", and in which they left them untranslated.
The Greek word diatheke NEVER meant "testament" (that comes from the Greek word marturia, meaning "evidence given" or a person's "testimony" or "testament", as at Mark 14:55), but rather "covenant", in which the King James Bible and other translators failed in ACCURATELY translating it (as at Matt 26:28; Mark 14:24; Luke 22:20; 1 Cor 11:25).
The King James Bible is translated correctly diatithemia (G1303) as "covenant" at Hebrews 8:10 (while the Catholic Douay Version reads as "testament"), because the quotation is from Jeremiah 31:33, whereby "covenant" is found, and in which the Greek word diatithemia is the root word of diatheke (G1242) that means "a disposition, a contract".
The Bible encyclopedia Insight on the Scriptures makes this comment on diatheke: "Although the obvious meaning of di·a·the´ke in the Christian Greek Scriptures is in the ancient Hebrew sense of “covenant,” many modern translators render di·a·the´ke in Heb 9:16, 17 as “will” or “testament.” They thus indicate that the writer of the book of Hebrews intended a change of meaning for this Greek word."
"However, the Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, by John McClintock and James Strong, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1981 reprint, Vol. II, p. 544, states: “The Sept. (or Greek Septuagint) having rendered (Hebrew) רית (which never means will or testament, but always covenant or agreement) by διαθήκη consistently throughout the O. T., the N. T. writers, in adopting that word, may naturally be supposed to intend to convey to their readers, most of them familiar with the Greek O. T., the SAME idea. . . . "
"In the confessedly difficult passage, Heb. ix, 16, 17, the word διαθήκη has been thought by many commentators absolutely to require the meaning of will or testament. On the other side, however, it may be alleged that, in addition to what has just been said as to the usual meaning of the word in the N. T., the word occurs twice in the context, where its meaning must necessarily be the same as the translation of (Hebrew) רית ("covenant"), and in the unquestionable sense of covenant (comp. διαθήκη καινή [di·a·the´ke kai·ne´, “new covenant”], Heb. ix, 15, with the same expression in viii, 8; and διαθήκη, ix, 16, 17, with ver. 20, and Exod. xxiv, 8).”
At Colossians 1:9, 10, the apostle Paul wrote: "That is also why from the day we heard of it, we have never stopped praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the accurate knowledge ("accurate knowledge", Greek epignosis, meaning "PRECISE and correct knowledge") of his will in all wisdom and spiritual comprehension, so as to walk worthily of Jehovah in order to please him fully as you go on bearing fruit in every good work and INCREASING in the accurate knowledge of God."
So, this should cause a sincere Bible reader to reevaluate what Bible they read, wanting an ACCURATE Bible that is NOT "out of date", causing them to "get lost", but one that "takes them straight to home". The 2013 New World Translation does just that.
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“Covenant” is one of the older meanings of the word _testament._
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The English word "covenant" or a binding contract is the ACCURATE meaning of the Hebrew word berith (H1285, and found 284 times in the Bible), as at Genesis 15:18 and Jeremiah 31:31-34 and the Greek word diatheke (G1242, and found 33 times in the Bible), as at and 2 Corinthians 3:14 and Hebrews 8:7-10, 13.
Of the word "testimony" (or "witness"), it is the Hebrew word 'eduwth (H5715, and found 59 times in the Bible), as at Exodus 16:34; 25:16, 21, 22; 26:34 and the Greek word martys (G3144, and found 35 times in the Bible), as at Matthew 18:16; 2 Cor 13:1; 1 Tim 5:19; 6:19, as well as martyria (G3141, and found 37 times in the Bible) as "testimony" at Mark 14:55.(Note: Context determines its accurate meaning)
So, the word "testament" is NOT the same as "covenant", or binding contract (see Gen 15:5-16), though one dictionary states: "judeo-christian covenant between God and humankind: a covenant made between God and humankind (archaic or formal)."(Microsoft Encarta Reference Library 2005), for it is the Bible, an ACCURATE Bible, that establishes the meaning of Hebrew and Greek words (as well as Aramaic).
So, at 2 Corinthians 3:14, the apostle Paul did NOT say "old testament", but "old covenant" or the Mosaic Law covenant that was established in 1513 B.C.E. between the nation of fleshly Israel and God, whose name is Jehovah.(see Ex 6:3, KJV)
The English word "testimony" is also an accurate translation of the Greek word stoma, meaning "the mouth" (G4750, and found 78 times in the Bible), as at Matthew 18:16, that reads: "But if he does not listen, take along with you one or two more, so that on the testimony ("testimony", Greek stoma or "with the mouth", see Matt 4:4; 15:11, 18; Luke 1:70) of two or three witnesses ("witnesses", Greek martys) every matter may be established."(2013 New World Translation)
Of the Greek word martys, the King James Bible translators often renders it as "witness(es)", as at Luke 11:48; 1 Tim 5:19, 6:12, and 2 Tim 2:2, and renders it as "martyrs" at Revelation 17:6, while the 2013 New World Translation reads at Revelation 17:6:
"And I saw that the (symbolic) woman (Babylon the Great, Rev 17:5, the religions of the world, of which Christendom is a major part) was (symbolically) drunk with the blood of the holy ones and with the blood of the witnesses (Greek martys) of Jesus (having murdered them in "the name of God", see John 16:2; Rev 6:9-11)."
At John 3:11, two associate words of martys is used, whereby the King James Bible reads: "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness", while accurately it reads: "Most truly I say to you, what we know we speak,"
"and what we have seen we bear witness to ("bear witness to", Greek martyreo, G3140, meaning "to be a witness, to bear witness", found 79 times in the Bible, with martys being its root word), but you do not receive the witness ("witness", Greek martyria, G3141, meaning "evidence given, testimony", with martys being its root word) we give."(2013 New World Translation)
So, accuracy (such as nuances of words) is essential in understanding the Bible and pleasing Jehovah God, in which this is seen at Colossians 1:9, 10:
"That is also why from the day we heard of it, we have never stopped praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the accurate knowledge ("accurate knowledge", Greek epignosis, meaning "PRECISE and correct knowledge") of his will in all wisdom and spiritual comprehension, so as to walk WORTHILY of Jehovah in order to please him fully as you go on bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the accurate knowledge of God."
Because it's all one book! I mean, who starts reading a book in the middle? 😂
But the New Testament could survive without the Old Testament.
And someone could still be a Christian without reading the Old Testament (although understanding Hebrews might prove difficult lol).
The opposite certainly is not true, however...
How can God regret something he knew was going to happen? The idea of an omniscient being feeling regret is no-sensical. You claim that it is above all else, true. So please explain.
What was the point of the flood? Humans where back to their evil ways in no time.
The reason for the flood, is mankind rejected the Gospel of the Lord, except Noah and his family.
To truly understand the Bible, you must view it through the gospel of Jesus Christ. Humanity is inherently wicked, as Isaiah 1:4 reveals, and this is why we need a Savior. Man will continue to sin until the Day of the Lord or our last breath (1 John 1:8), and salvation cannot come through our own efforts (Galatians 2:21). Only faith in Jesus Christ brings eternal life.
The flood of Noah was a direct reflection of this gospel truth. Noah preached righteousness to a sinful world that rejected God (Hebrews 11:7, 2 Peter 2:5). Just as Noah’s flood came upon a disobedient world, so will judgement fall again in the end times. Noah's message, like the gospel today, was about salvation by faith-he believed God, while the world perished in unbelief. As in the days of Noah, few will be saved, as Jesus Himself asks, “Will He find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8).
Nineveh, on the other hand, repented, and God spared them from destruction (Jonah 3:10). This shows that God’s mercy is available to all who turn to Him, but Sodom and Gomorrah’s total annihilation proves what happens when there is no faith (Genesis 18:32, Isaiah 1:9).
Capernaum rejected the miracles and message of Christ, and it led to their judgement (Matthew 11:23). Isaiah 1:7 emphasizes the devastation of rejecting God’s offer of salvation.
The message is clear: without faith in Jesus Christ, judgement is inevitable. The gospel was preached even in Noah's time, and those who reject it will face destruction just as in the flood.
It was mainly to wipe out all of the mixed seed abominations - giants, dinosaurs, etc.
The Lord and apostles quoted the Torah - the law and the prophets, must has yet to be fulfilled, yet millions of professing nominal Christians claim the law has been "done away", due to false teachers, liberal and unbiblical teachings.
Ask yourself, Is it the creator God, who is a moral monster? Or is it that God is having to deal with many of His children who are moral monsters? Judging from all written human history and the horrible atrocities we've committed in the past and present, I'd say the latter. if one of your children were a raping, stealing, murdering monster, wouldn't you still love him, but would you condone his actions and act as if nothing happened. You wouldn't want him around your other children. we've done far worse to each other for no good reason than what God has done for a good reason. Keep in mind God didn't have to save anyone through Noah's flood. He could have wiped us all out. We don't practice capital punishment any longer and our prisons have become overflowing bed-and-breakfast institutions and look at what it has gotten us. Rinse and repeat! We might as well put revolving doors on our prisons. this is why the world is so wicked these days. Many people no longer believe in God or fear His punishment so they do what they want. The only time people acknowledge God is when they want to blame Him for something they caused themselves. Grow up, people!
Ecclesiastes is talking about all of life and everything in it, "under the sun" as being vain (empty, meaningless) that is, life without God. This is the outcropping of a naturalistic worldview.
Tanakh - not old testament ... gospels & letters ... not a book called new testament replacing another set of books
The Israelites couldn't have been in Egypt 400 years. It isn't mathematically possible. Moses' grandfather came down with Jacob. There wasn't 400 years before Moses left.
Exo. 12:40-41 literally states that the Israelites lived in Egypt for 430 yrs. Not only is it mathematically impossible, God told their ancestor Abraham that they wouldn't leave Egypt for 4 generations in Gen. 15 because He wanted to give the Canaanites that amount of time to repent before His judgement came upon them.
@@theeternalsbeliever1779 thank you for filling out my point.
Yep…. It’s all been fulfilled, all Gods promises came true. Preterism is very much the truth of scripture. Covenant covenant covenant. We go to heaven when we die if we believe. Plus nothing minus nothing.
This man fails to give an honest answer to the cruelty of the god of the Old Testament by deflecting the subject to the canonites as scapegoat , as if the canonites were the malignant foe from the very beginning. Nothing else than moral dishonesty.
Jesus refuted the Old Testament many times and his main theme was the abolition of sacrifice and asceticism. Repentance not atonement for the remission of sins. The Old Testament is full of the depiction of sacrifice as a priestly office. Jesus wants none of that. He feasted, without washing his hands, and without throwing even a pinch of salt over his shoulder . The Transfiguration is about leaving Moses and Elijah behind and following the words of Jesus. There’s no way Jesus was a strict by the letter Torah observant Jew. The spirit of the law supersedes the letter. Jesus was entirely spiritual.
Isn't it the other way round? The New (Fresh!) Testament is key to understanding the Old Testament. Jesus showed it to his disciples as well... 'Opening their eyes'.
You can not understand the spiritual unless you first understand the physical. You can not understand John 1 unless you understand Genesis 1. You can not understand the very meaning of The Last Adam's name unless you understand the first Adam's fall.
@@auh2o148 It's the other way round. First understand the spiritual than understand the physical... Genesis a1-2 does only make sense once you grasped John 1.
@@metapolitikgedanken612 you wouldn't even know what Heaven is without Paradise. You wouldn't know about YHWH's throne without the Ark of the Covenant. No, you go to the spiritual first to be shown and understand the natural; only then can you begin to understand the supernatural.
No. Christ taught the disciples proved that He was the Messiah by teaching from the Law and the Prophets. A person will not truly understand the Second Testament without understanding the First Testament. The Law and the Prophets were the basis of everything the apostles teach, and it's obvious given the frequency at which they quote or reference those sections.
I'm positive it's all make believe
Alohim mean god plural. So this guy has that wrong
It doesn't refer to plural actually.
No Hebrew speaker, scholar or Jew has ever thought that.
Why? Because the VERB used is singular. What "Elohim" denotes is the majesty, the greatness (big-ness) of God.
Is Christianity just an interpretation, of the Old Testament.
No, Christianity is just a concoction of pagan religions and biblical beliefs. What Messiah said, you need the 'old testament' to interpret it.
The interviewer constantly saying 'hmmm' is very annoying. I will not listen to any podcast with her in to
I actually disagree with the title, "the old testament is key to understanding the New"
The very reason why we have a NEW testament, or a NEW covenant is because the people of Israel
rejected the Lord. Example God said in Exodus 19:5-6 *IF IF IF* ye will, obey... then ye shall be unto me.."
Problem is they did not obey the Lord and God regarded them NOT! Hebrews 8:9 kjv
We believers through Jesus Christ being the singular seed of Abraham Galatians 3:16 are the royal priesthood the holy people
Galatians 3:29 and 1 Peter 2:9
Galatians 3:7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
Only those who believe in Jesus Christ are the nation of Israel Romans 9:6-8
If they want to be grafted back into the Lord who is the vine, they MUST become believers in the Lord
John 14:6 There is no other way for them to be saved.
Therefore *UNDERSTANDING* the entire bible, both covenants is through Jesus Christ, he is the key
to understanding all scripture. His gospel was taught by Noah and preached to an unbelieving world who rejected the Lord Hebrews 11:7,2 Peter 2:5 KJV
and as the days of Noah were, so shall be the coming of the Lord. Luke 18:8 "...when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?”
There is only one covenant people, those who believe in Jesus.
In conclusion.
Jesus Christ is the singular focus of both the Old and New Covenants, with all Scripture pointing to Him. Faith in Christ is the defining mark of God's covenant people, and those who do not believe, whether Jew or Gentile, are not part of the true "Israel."
@@Daniel90210 The gospel is one, by Noah, by the prophets, by John the Baptist, and by Jesus Christ: repent and return to God, to the obedience to his commandments.
If we don't know anything about the commandments we don't know what is good or what is sin, we are morally blinded, and we could be living a sinful life without knowing it, because "by the law id the knowledge of sin".
We are saved by faith, but keeping God's commandments, we are pleasing our heavenly Father, and he bless us, because blessings come by obedience.
Please read carefully Matthew 5:17-48, there is Jesus Christ teaching about his commandments (he as the word of God was with Moses in the mountain).
Blessings in His Holy name!
@@luisea930 You are totally rejecting Jesus Christ, let me explain, through your works Titus 1:16
So you are saying, we must obey the Laws of Moses, to abide in them, if we break them we are sinning and that we need to
"repent from sins" to be saved? So if righteousness comes by the Law Jesus then died in Vain Galatians 2:21
If Jesus Christ gives us his FREE GIFT of eternal life, never ever to lose it, by simply believing in him by faith John 10:28
Why the worry over sin? Let me give you a secret, everyone sins, we all do, every day we will sin
until the day of the Lord or our last breath. 1 John 1:8
We don't "repent from sins" to be saved, we repent from unbelief in the Lord to believers, once we believe God freely gives us his free gift of eternal life
not by works but by faith.
If we had to "repent of our sins" why did God repent 33x's in the Old Testament?
Are you saying God repented from sins? haha of course not, God repented, meaning Metanoia, a change of mind
Example Genesis 6:6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Also you said we must obey his commandments, yes I agree
1 John 3:23
And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
Our commandment is to BELIEVE in Jesus Christ.
If you think you must "repent of sins" to be saved, - that phrase is not even in the bible, - you are
rejecting the Lord through works of the Law Titus 1:16
Galatians 2:16 Romans 3:20 Romans 3:28 Acts 13:39
The Gospel is to believe in the Lord John 3:18 John 3:36
@@Daniel90210 We are saved by faith, but faith within work is dead faith. We have to be holy to be able to see God, of course that the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses our sins but only if we repent from our sins and leave the sinful behavior. "We are saved for good works", do you remember that verse? We are not justified by works, but by the sacrifice of the Messiah, but we are required to walk in the same way he walked, if we claim to be their followers. Check this:
"[17] Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. [18] For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. [19] Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. [20] For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven."
We cannot despise the instructions given to us to live a holy life, you herd Him, he said that we will be "nothing" in the Kingdom of heaven. And about the Pharisees, they were called hypocrits because they obeyed "Talmud" instead what Jesus Christ taught to his disciples as a Rabbi: the law of Moses. They simulated obeying God, but not, they obeyed their men-mad laws fruit of the takanots given by their pharisaic rabbis. Honoring men and despising God, that's why Jesus Christ rejected most of their pharisaic authorities calling the "hypocrites".
As an example, sometimes we do the same, we honor the Catholic Church (with the emperor Constantine) that established the Sunday as the "day of the Lord", despising God's direct instructions about the Shabbat.
Without transit laws our highways would turn in a disaster, the same is happening all over the occident, the churches deceived by satan are despising the commandments of God and what are the results? Day by day more churches are leaving the true gospel for a twisted one. God through the prophet said:
"[14] if my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."
We must repent, all the decadence is in part our fault, because we prefer comfort over a real relationship with God.
@@Daniel90210 Remember that Jesus Christ is the word of God, that means that Moses was talking with Jesus Christ in his eternal form as God, so He was the one who gave the law to Moses. How can we despise something that he gave to us to live a holy life? We cannot keep all the commandments because some are specific for Levites, others for the high priest, others for women, others for people who have cattle, etc. But we can love God over everything, we can honor our parents, we can avoid sexual immorality....living like that means the rejection of Jesus Christ? Maybe the rejection of a religion, but that's the way our Master lives and told us to live.
Blessings in the holy name of Jesus Christ.
Disagree all you want, but 2 Tim. 3 says ALL scripture is profitable for instruction in righteousness, and that a person is ill equipped to do God's Work without every word He inspired. Israel's rejection of God doesn't somehow make the Law and the Prophets uninspired text, and to foolishly make this argument makes you guilty of what Christ called "making the word of God of no effect" in Mar. 7. You're essentially telling ppl to ignore God.
John Wesley? No thanks!
Nope! Actually, belief in Christ (New Testament) is key to understanding the whole Bible.
I'd encourage you to watch the whole video before commenting.
Elohim is the plural form of the title of God. In the beginning God (plural form) created.
There are 2 gods in the OT, one with a big G, one with a little one, those that can't see this I don't know what to say, but it seems rather obvious imo. Those heretical Jewish texts incorporated into the OT are directly contradictory to Christian ways, this is also why there are clearly 2 creation stories in the OT, that contradict each other. Takes you all of a paragraph to figure this out.
I'll also argue the point that the OT was Jesus's bible, there's no mention he read or studied it as far as I can tell. He knew of Adem and the flood, because.. of course he did.. he's God.
The New Testament is infinitely more important than the Old. Just as Christ Jesus infinitely more important than Moses. The Old Testament is only the background to the real story, not the revelation of God's salvation and love that is resorted in the New.
Not really. The Old Testament is the first part of the New. The New is a continuation of the Pentateuch and without it, the New Testament makes no sense nor can you have proper exegesis when studying the New. All kinds of false doctrines get started by groups of people leaving out the Pentateuch. For example in Daniel 9 Gabriel tells Daniel the exact DAY that Messiah would ride into Jerusalem and be publicly executed. But more importantly, you wouldn't even know why the world and people are in the state they are in or why the cross needed to happen in the first place without the Old Testament. The Bible is ONE COMPLETE NARRATIVE. Not two books, one being more important than the other, its ALL important.
Is this guy a zionist ?
Jesus Christ made the Old Testament largely redundant…. What’s hidden in the Old Testament is revealed in the New and what’s revealed in the New is hidden in the Old Testament….
Old Testament allows us to know the history of mankind… but salvation comes to mankind through the New covenant
All of Jesus’s teachings were from the Old Testament, more particularly the Torah - God’s commands. If Jesus taught against God’s commands, he would have been sinning and unable to have been the perfect unblemished lamb.
@@courtneyd7213 Jesus didn't teach against the Torah but he didn't continue it either.
You need to study the meaning of the word "fulfill". It's important.
He says he didn't come to abolish the law but to FULFILL it.