what's the difference between the old testament and the new testament?

Answer 1

There are many differences.

Some of the most pronounced differences are that the Old Testament is filled with prophesies, and the New Testament is the fulfillment of those prophecies.

In the Old Testament, the savior, or messiah, had yet to appear. The New Testament concerns the life and death of Christ and the establishment of God's church.

The Old Testament is concerned with the law of Abraham. In the New Testament, Jesus says that the law is now dead and that he is the living law.

In the Old Testament, the world is not yet saved. In the New, it is saved.

Answer 2

Sure... the Old Testament is comprised of the myths, superstitions, fairy tales and fantastical delusions of a tribe of ignorant Bronze Age fishermen and wandering goat herders, declared to represent some kind of cosmic 'TRUTH' (without the least bit of credible evidence).

The New Testament is a total fabrication and fraud, which took the idea of a spiritual Christ character from a 1st century salvation cult and, in the 2nd century, created the fiction that the spiritual character was actually a historical character from the recent past.

Christianity is essentially a criminal business enterprise... in fact, it is the world's longest running and most successful Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) scam. The product they are selling is the illusion of 'salvation'... and the 'pay plan' doesn't kick in until after you're dead. Meanwhile the victims (having been deceived into believing that it is their God-given duty) are out there busily recruiting MORE victims. What a racket! FORTUNATELY, it only works on those who are gullible enough, and sufficiently lacking in critical thinking skills, to fall for it. UNfortunately, THAT accounts for about 75% of the population of the USA. (There are a lot more people who DON'T know how to think properly than there are people who DO know how to think properly.) That is why there are a lot more religious people in the USA than there are 'Free-thinkers'... including Atheists. Also, Christians are generally too dense to realize that proselytizing (spreading the 'good news') is a key element of the Christian MLM MARKETING PLAN, which was instituted after Christianity lost the political power that had previously allowed them to simply torture and kill anybody who did not comply. Now, they obliviously try to just pester and annoy people to death, through persistent obnoxiousness. If you stop to think about it, you will realize that Christians are very much like the Borg, on Star Trek Next Generation: "You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile." I would not be surprised to learn that thoughts of Christianity provided the 'creative spark' for the Borg concept.

Answer 3

testament means covenant, as in a legal contract.
the old testament symbolizes the old covenant.
the new testament symbolizes the new covenant guarenteed by jesus' blood.
the new testament can only be understood by a knowlage of the old.
without the knowlage of sacrifices in the old testament(that had to be repeated) you cannot understand the concept of the sacrifice of the perfect man to take care of mankind's sin once and for all.
abraham was prepared to sacrifice his son issac.
god sacrificed it's son jesus so that all people could be forgiven their sin.
the old testament come first in the bible. the new is the last part of the bible.

Answer 4

In the Old Testament God promised a saviour! In the New Testament that promise was fulfilled!
Jesus took away our sins by dying on the cross! Jesus rose from the dead so that we could have eternal life in Heaven!

Answer 5

The old testament was written for the Jews mostly when they were under the law. The new testament is written for everyone and since Jesus paid the price to redeem us, we are under grace. Both are important.

Answer 6

A group of Jewish rabbis sat down and cobbled together the old testament about 100 A.D., and a group of Christian priests got together and wrote the new testament in about 340 A.D.

Both compilations are rather jumbled and incoherent, but that never stopped anyone from killing people over it.

Answer 7

There is no difference they are the continuation of God Revelation. Human being have made the difference by forming into different sects (religions). They are both form God, along with the Quran, but people reject things that are new to their group. When the Jesus came, some people rejected his and his disciples revelation and when the Quran came, the groups before rejected Mohammad although you can tell all three are from God's inspiration.

Its funny because Jews, Muslims, and Christians all claim Abraham as the father of their religion. Its the same religion!

No offense to anyone, I respect all peoples religion.

You should read all of Revelation and not reject any of God's prophets.
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Answer 8

The difference is that the Old Testament is under the Mosaic law. Under Mosaic law, they (the Isrealites) had to offer pure sacrifices, such as lambs. with the New Testament, we are under grace, in the fact that Jesus died on the cross and was the ultimate pure sacrifice.

Answer 9

The Old Testament is Before Christ(B.C.) and the New Testament is Anno Domini(A.D.) or the Year of our Lord.

Answer 10

One's older than the other.

OT - written mostly in Hebrew, contains books on law, history, poetry, and prophecies of the ancient Israelites.

NT - written mostly in Greek, contains the gospels that describe the words and deeds of Jesus Christ, believed by Christians to be the Messiah about whom many OT prophecies were made, also contains Acts (history of the early Christian church), epistles (letters written from early church leaders to believers throughout the Mediterranean), and an apocalypse (kind of like a prophecy that describe Christ's triumphal return to earth and the final triumph of good over evil).