why so much difference between old and new testament. is the law not to change or what?

Answer 1

The New Covenant
Hebrews 8:7-12 says
For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another. But God found fault with the PEOPLE and said "The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because THEY DID NOT REMAIN FAITHFUL TO MY COVENANT, and I turned away from them, declares the Lord. This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."

The Old Covenant- the people failed to keep the 10 commandments “They said we will do it” Exodus 19:8 and they failed

The problem with the Old covenant was the people failed to keep the law. There was NOTHING wrong with the law.

New Covenant - written on the heart. It says nothing about new laws it is the SAME law written on the heart

The Old Covenant was based on the people, God says “If you will...then I will” Exodus 19:5

The New Covenant is based on God, God says “I will and I will”

The New covenant is the SAME law

Answer 2

Christianity can really make me laugh sometimes. The Old and New Testaments do go hand in hand with one another in the sense of asking God's followers to be obedient. The Old Testament made it really difficult to follow all of the rules so the religion "evolved" with the New Testament and Jesus as the teacher making the same rules apply but changing the approach to make it easier on the individual to accomplish. To me, this is just plain old good marketing.

Answer 3

The Old Testament was a special covenant given to the Jewish people that foreshadowed and typified the coming of Jesus Christ. For example, the tabernacle and sacrifice and priesthood all symbolized Jesus Christ being sacrificed for our sins. As our New High Priest in the New Covenant, Jesus Christ fulfills the sacrificial offerings and washings of the flesh present in the Old, and therefore these commandments are no longer to be observed in their rudamentary old testament form. Nevertheless, all of those commandments that have not been directly completed and fulfilled prophetically, exegetically through Jesus Christ remain for covenanted Christian peoples to observe today in the New Covenant, since it was only the ceremonial precepts that are fulfilled in Christ whereas the moral and judicial remain to be implemented by the people of God.

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Answer 4

The Old Testament has a harsher tone and was written by the Jewish people. The New Testament is much more watered down and not full of dogmas.

Answer 5

There really is not much difference between the Old and New Testaments. Under both covenants you have to believe in God who is Jesus. Under the Old Covenant you have to believe in God who is Jesus who brought Israel out of Egypt. Under the New Covenant you believe in God who is Jesus who took the punishment for the sins of Israel: the death of man including hell, not the death of animals. The Old Covenant was broken by Israel and is no longer in effect. Jeremiah 31 However alot of the Laws excluding animal sacrifices are still in effect as the Laws of the New Covenant established by God who is Jesus's blood of the New Covenant. The Ten Commandments also are the Law of the New Covenant. Anyone who doesn't believe in God who is Jesus is believing in idols and false gods.

Answer 6

There is no difference. The same commands and laws are still obeyed. Only the interpretations of the people in the old and new testament are different. God only sends different prophets and his Son just to remind us about his commandmends and not to add or change it.

Answer 7

There is no difference. The old testament is God will revealed the new testament is God's will fullfilled.

Answer 8

If you study your Bible in detail there is little difference between the two, they fit hand in hand, the one being a continuination of the other. The Whole Bible is a unity not a diversity.