Why do Christians tell us to ignore the old testament?

Question

Well?

Well my dad tells me too.

Just a note: I am a Christian! I'm also 16,and I found the old testiment hard to understand and quite disturbing. I wasn't trying to make you angry or anything, just checking to see if I was doing the right thing by turning a blind eye to it.

I've only been a Christian for six months, and perhaps I got it wrong, all the christians I know I think are under the line of being Baptists. Does that make the old testament statement true or is this just some people?Thanks for all the answers I am really grateful, and thanks for not jumping to the conclusion that I'm not a christian, but I am.

Answer 1

All of the bible is important, how do you know your future, if you don't know your past

Answer 2

Some Christian denominations give the Old Testament more emphasis than do others (Mormons, for instance, give it a great deal of attention). It does seem as though some of them have put the Son ahead of the Father, though, which would be a violation of the First Commandment ("I am the Lord thy God; thou shalt have no other gods before Me").

It all arises from Christianity's evangelical nature -- the constant search for converts; since the time of the Apostles, a God of love who offers eternal salvation has been seen as an easier sell than the wrathful God of the Old Testament.

Moral: you can catch more converts with honey than you can with vinegar.

Answer 3

I haven't told you to ignore the old testament, now have I? And I'm a Christian... The answer to this is is that the Old Testament is from of the "Old Covenant" before Jesus, while the New Testament is of the "New Covenant" given to us from Jesus. This means that some things have changed (i.e. no circumcision), but I don't think that we can ignore the Old Testament, for it is still God's word.

Answer 4

Not to ignore it, just to read it in the light of the new testament and Jesus coming and dying and offering us salvation for our sins so you don't have to earn salvation. You just can't get a fair and balanced and clear understanding of the bible's message if you read one without the other. And why do you have to demand well? at the end of your question like noone can give you an answer. It suggests a close mindedness to any answer that makes me think I really shouldn't bother.

Answer 5

They don't tell me that. Probably because I am not a Christian. I have noticed they will attack a non with the Old Testament rather quickly, but will turn their nose up at it if you try to apply it to them, claiming that Jesus died so they wouldn't have to follow the Old Test (You will not find this anywhere in the New Test.) I guess they forget that verses that states HOW you judge another will be how you are judged. ;o>

Answer 6

I also ask the same question that if OT is not valid anymore than why not throw it out or call it "Book for Jews"?
But then I realized that if they did, they can't prove more than half of Christianity so what they do is keep the OT and whatever they don't like, they say "oh that's the old law" and if they have to make a point, they say "But the OT says this, so I follow it"

OT is also needed to prove that Jesus is "THE Messiah" of Jews.

Answer 7

The old testament is the history of the Jewish nation and it's purpose is to show you the lineage of Christ and how Christianity began and especially that God gave so many, many chances to worship him and what He endured with his creation of mankind.
What you dad is referring to perhaps is that the old ways were nailed to the cross with Christ,so we all now belong to him and Christ's death was our salvation.We are as Christians to follow his examples as we can, pray directly to the Father and try to live as we should. I do not know your age, but he is your dad,so ask him to explain his words if possible.

Answer 8

2nd Cor 2 makes interesting reading , especially verses 2 & 3, and from that i understand that the old testament is our old life, the past, where Christ was not in man yet, then the new testament, where Christ is in man's mind yet , and then even a newer tetament today, where we are a new testament,with hearts of flesh , not written with ink. (pliable like clay in His hands) , not hearts of stone, where things had to be chiseled out or engraved (the law) like before.

Answer 9

Original Testament and Secondary Testament?

Christianity? Jesus? Dying?

What is the Imacculate Conception supposed to mean?

(NOT A VIRGIN BIRTH! - Google Imacculate Conception. What else do you falsely believe? )

Jesus, the basis of Christianity? .

If Jesus died, he could NOT have been God.

Gods do not die? Do they?

If Jesus 'died' on Friday and 'undied' on Sunday, what else besides Saturday was sacrificed?

Did Jesus give up Saturday for us? Big deal!

If Jesus died for our sins, there should not be any more sins, else why go through with it?.

If Jesus really DIED, he should be dead, dead, dead!


If the flesh of Jesus died, what was seen walking and talking on Sunday?

If you swallow this stuff, you are not going to like the folks who don't. You want them to swallow it too.

Christians want everyone to convert to their non-thinking in order to be 'saved'.

Believing and not thinking is like choosing a mental illness and becoming truly lost.

Answer 10

I'm a Christian and that's where all of the great stories and prophesies came from. And also all the beautiful Psalms. I don't know who you've been talking to but whoever it was I think they might have missed the point of the Bible in the first place.

Answer 11

Not me. You need the whole Bible. Christ and his apostles quoted out of the old testament. You need a lot of it to understand the new testament, especially Revelation.
2Tim 3:16 says "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,"
Got it, all scripture.