If the old testament has been superceded by the new testament, why not just drop it from the bible?

Question

Every time someone asks a question about one of the idiocies in the old testament, a crowd of jesus freaks materialises saying it doesn't matter, because jesus overturned all the teachings in it. So why have it at all? Dropping it would stop at least half the tedious debates in this thread.

History, eh? So you are all agreed Jonah went sailing around the ocean in a fish?

Apologies for the spelling error in the question. I don't use the spell checker because it inserts apostrophes where they don't belong

Answer 1

It hasn't been super-ceded the holy scripture start at Genesis end s at Deut then the minor prophets The new testament need the holy scripture for support . Otherwise it the Foundation of the Gospels. not all Jesus freaks would miss the HOLY Scriptures Jesus did not do away with one dot of and i ;;::in the LAW and every one that is not keeping it will have their place in the hot lake of fire

Answer 2

When America seperated from Britain, to Britain cease having a Monarchy? Just because something is in the past does not mean that it's no longer worth knowing. All of Genesis is in the Old Testament, that includes creation of heaven and earth and MAN. while some things were changed, it's still worth knowing how they were before, to know how they changed..

Example, in the US, first there was slavery, then slaves were freed but still oppressed openly, then that became segregation (controlled tolerance if you will) which sadly still exists to a certain extent today, but the point is this: Slavery is no longer a valid practice, but should we not read the history of it to know about it? Of course we should, it serves not only as a record to show where we came from, but also a warning to stave off going down that path again.

Answer 3

The Bible also says that God doesn't change. The same themes found in the New Testament are echoed in the old. The same God is revealed in both. The scriptures followed by the New Testament Christians were the writings we know as the Old Testament. How can the OT be thrown out?

Answer 4

The old Testament is of good historical fact, as to how hard it was to teach the Hebrew Children and make them understand Abraham was Justified by faith, a Promise of a Messiah to come, was to be there freedom setter from the Law, they still did not all accept the Messiah or the Anointed of God, but I personally do not use the Old Testament , as I am a New Testament Christian , but have studied the O.T history.

Answer 5

with the aid of the time of Jesus, the Jews were making use of the Septuagint, a Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures. at the same time as the Jews wanting to pass back to making use of Hebrew, they in hardship-free words took those books that were written in that language, and dumped the later ones that were written in Aramaic. So, maximum Bibles contain an same OT books that the Jews renowned as Scripture. No "Christian" ameliorations in any respect; both Christians and Jews makes use of an same elements to produce the sought after variations. some Bible nevertheless comprise those extra Aramaic books. it is everyday because the Apocrypha, or Deutero-Canonical books. The Torah is in hardship-free words the first 5 books, also everyday because the Pentateuch. There are also the writings of the regulation, and Prophets, and expertise besides, and the Psalms. lengthy tale short: the OT in maximum Christian Bibles is an same as what the Jews use. extra or a lot less.

Answer 6

The fact that the 'old testament' was superseded (done away) is a reality. The real question that needs to be answered is what is the old testament? I believe that applying the 'two or more witnesses' principle; the scriptural old testament is the law of Moses, not Genesis-Malachi. (In 2 Cor. 3:13-14, the law given to Moses (not Adam, Abraham or Joseph) is referred to as the 'old testament' (KJV, other English translations call it old covenant).
That point is one of the things apparently causing the many denominations in America presently.

Answer 7

The Old Testament is so valuable to us today.

I don't know where I would be today without the wisdom and encouragement of the books of Job, Psalms, and Proverbs.

Genesis gives us the history of the beginning of time and the events that followed shortly after.

Throughout the Old Testament are stories of great believers. There are stories about people who fell into sin, and how God took them back time after time in His great mercy.

Not to mention all the prophecies made in the Old Testament that we see come true in the New Testament.

All this to say, there is plenty in the Old Testament that is applicable to us today. Praise the Lord for the laws that we no longer have to follow, like that of the offerings which was no longer needed after Christ died as the ultimate sacrifice for sin.

Answer 8

The New Testament superseded (sat upon) the Old Testament. The Old Testament is the basis of Christianity's existence. Without it, Christianity would have no authority for existence. The new name for the Torah "Old Testament" vs. "New Testament" institutionalized the Christian habit of Jewish denigration. The naming of the new texts made it impossible for a believing Jew to accept a Jesus whose meaning, by definition, involved a demeaning of the Jewish Scriptures, the Jewish cult, the Jewish covenant with God. A Jew could accept Jesus only by rejecting -- betraying -- everything Jesus himself believed.

Had it not been for St. Augustine, every Jew would have been slaughtered by the Roman Catholic Church in the 4th century. It was St. Augustine who said to "let them (Jews) survive as witnesses, but never to thrive; their "backs" must be "bent down always." Their homelessness and misery are the proper punishments for their refusal to recognize the truth of the Church's claims. And more -- their misery is yet another proof of those claims." This was only the first of many times Jews were given the choice to convert or die.

Answer 9

Jesus did not say He came to overturn the teachings of the Old Testament. He said He came to fullfill them. Plus the Old Testament is the same Scripture that Jesus read while He was here on Earth.

I challenge you to read "The Bible Jesus Read" by Phillip Yancy

Answer 10

The Covenant of the OT is between God and the Israelites (descendants of Abraham). I believe the law is fulfilled. This does not mean that there are not valuable lessons from learning about the law and the requirements that Jesus fulfilled. Nor does it meand that all of the wisdom as how to and not to live life imparted by the lives discussed in the OT are useless. There are many lessons of value in the OT. But as a Christian my job is to live under the new covenant between all of human kind: Love God, Neighbor and Self. on these all OT laws are part.

Answer 11

The old testament has many extrememly valuable lessons about creation, the fall, the flood, the origins of the groups of people on the earth, the way God worked through history, for learning about the character of God and about righteousness, justice and mercy

Jesus fullfilled the law, he did not obliterate it and Christians are to say along with David in Psalm 119 "ooooooh hoe i love your law" as ar as the basic themes of justic and mercy and the right ness in it

In no way should it be dropped and it probably should be paid closer attention to than less attention