2006-09-18 07:38:20 · 15 answers · asked by bleuboy007 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If you ever read it, you'll understand. There's a lot of "God" in there.
2006-09-18 07:40:11 · answer #1 · answered by lizardmama 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all; it is not just a chronology of the Judaic people.
It also gives several principles for Jesus believers to follow.
A test as also developed out of it. The test; 'What is the scriptural old testament'? Applying 2 Tim. 3:16-17 and the '2 or more witnesses' principle; (Jews Deut. 10-20; Christians Matt. 18:16, 2 Cor. 13:1) the scriptural old testament is the Mosaic law which starts in Ex. 20; not Genesis-Malachi.
. My 'two or more witnesses' for that assertion include Joshua (Joshua 8:31), David (2 Kings 2:3), Solomon (1 Kings 8:9), Nehemiah (Nehemiah 8:1), Daniel (Daniel 9:11-13), Malachi (Malachi 4:4)i, Jesus (Matt. 19:7-9), God the Father (Matt. 17; in effect he backs up whatever Jesus his Son says), and the apostle Paul. (The law is referred to as the old testament (KJV), many other English versions translate it as old covenant in 2 Cor. 3:13-14).
2006-09-18 15:11:31 · answer #2 · answered by jefferyspringer57@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Old Testament is not a chronology of the history of the Judaic people; it is the history of God's mission in the world and His relationship with humankind. It begins by showing what God intended for the world, and then how people messed it up by thinking that they knew better. It tells about God's plan to reveal Himself to the world through His chosen servants (the people who became the nation of Israel). It gives us a much larger picture of God's plan for the world and contains hundreds of prophecies about the future that show us how God will continue carry His plan out. Many of the prophecies were to point the Jews to Jesus as the Messiah, but sadly, many of them failed to see it.
The Old Testament also contains poetry that can inspire us to worship and give us a greater understanding of who God is. The Old Testament is in the Bible to show us God's plan for the world from the beginning of time and to help us better understand Jesus and why he came.
2006-09-18 15:14:33 · answer #3 · answered by theology_chick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If that was all it was, it would be useless. And then because there would be no Genesis, faith in Christ would be meaningless as well. The New testament cannot stand without the old testament. If no one recorded, "A virgin will be with child", what significance would it have?
OR: For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken. And they made His grave with the wicked-- But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth. Isaiah 53:2-9 who recorded this in 742 BCE ???
2006-09-18 14:50:07 · answer #4 · answered by Jay Z 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's more a chronology of the history of the Judaic people and their interaction with God. It gives us valuable information about God. What is more important than that?
2006-09-18 14:41:15 · answer #5 · answered by luvwinz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not just a chronology.
There are also stories of people's faith (Job, for example); prophecies (Isaiah, for example), songs to God (psalms), a description of the covenant...and lots more.
It is in the Bible for many reasons. It provides chronology and lineage; it lays out God's law; it exemplifies the old covenant so that we may know the agreement God had with humans before he sent his Son; and it provides the prophecies...so that we may see them fulfilled in the New Testament.
2006-09-18 14:46:41 · answer #6 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This reply is from a Muslim. Old Testament laws are within history. You have to read it carefully to find them out. This is not true that its all history.
2006-09-18 14:40:41 · answer #7 · answered by A K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you have to try to be this ignorant or do you come by it naturally? The Bible is the love story of God and His people. Jews are God's Chosen People. His Son Jesus was a Jew.
2006-09-18 14:41:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because it is the first part of the story and it also contains the last part there are colons and commas where the church comes in and hints towords it but it was a secret kept by God to be reveled by jesus.
"one sheds light on the other."
2006-09-18 14:59:22 · answer #9 · answered by attb 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it shoes the path of is rail and predicts the life of Jesus it is as important as the new testament with out the old testament you can not fully understand Jesus' sacrifice and its significance
2006-09-18 14:42:27 · answer #10 · answered by Mim 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It traces the story of redemption, and provides human examples (both good and bad) along the way.
2006-09-18 14:46:10 · answer #11 · answered by DRDAVE 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋