2006-12-23 12:24:59 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What better way to try and convert the Jews. It was the Catholic Church.
2006-12-23 12:32:21 · answer #1 · answered by gottabuylots 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The issue of whether to included the Old Testament as part of the Christian scriptures was debated for about the first three hundred years of the Christian faith. The majority of church leaders favored including it. When the death sentence for being a Christian was lifted by the Roman Emperor Constantine in the early 300's, the Christians were able to have their first "official" council in the city of Nicea in modern Turkey. It were there that the list of books for the New Testament was finalized, and the Torah was kept as part of the Christian scripture.
At that time, with the church just emerging from hiding for the first time, there were no different denominations. They were all concerned one "church". It was not until the 11th century that the church would have it first major split into what are considered the Catholic and Orthodox churches. All other churches have grown out of those two, which is why all churches accept both Testaments. There was only "the church" at the time the decision was made.
2006-12-23 12:36:27 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus and the apostles regularly used the old testament scriptures ... all of them ... not just the Torah ... which were then included in the Septuagint.
The Catholic Church included these o.t. works, along with that set down by the writers of the new testament, according to the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
All this was done long before Constantine ever saw that cross in the sky, and around 1200 years before the first Protestant ever thumped a Bible.
In the Catholic Church, councils are called around every 100 years or so, in order to make official, those things which (typically) have already been universally accepted, and are already part of the life of the church.
2006-12-23 13:00:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Old Testament is more than the Torah, it is also books of poetry, proverbs, history and prophecy. Regardless of who made the decision, it was obviously the correct decision because the New Testament refers to the Old Testament on numerous occasions. If you are unclear of the importance, simply read Hebrews Ch. 11. That should give you an idea of why it is very significant.
2006-12-23 12:30:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Torah is the first four books of the bible, The tenach is the old testament. They are the foundation on which the Bible is written. The new Testament came later and then was canonized together as the bible we have today.
The old and the new are just as important.
2Timothy 3:16 (KJV) All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Note the word ALL SCRIPTURE, means old and new.
Hope this helps
2006-12-23 12:32:11 · answer #5 · answered by Ray G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The old testament is very relavant. If you do not beleive in the old testament you do not believe in Gods word. He put the whole bible here and told you that He does not change and is the same forever. The betrayel of Jesus was prophesized in the old testament and fullfiled in the new testament. There is so much you do not understand.
Example.
Old testament: Zec 11:13 And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty [pieces] of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.
2006-12-23 12:35:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was more the other way round. Most early Chrisatians were Jews (like Y'shua Himself) and saw Him as the fulfilment of their Scriptures and so naturally brought them into the Church with them. The Injil (New Testament) was accepted later...because of the obvious authority within the books chosen
2006-12-27 08:20:58 · answer #7 · answered by alan h 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Was not church was jew bookseller, her not shift Torah when Jew convert christian so he chuck Torah in frie when buy new Testment, dne Christian dey runs out sermons from new testament so uses old so dey want Torah again so Jew he get batch print wit bofe bount in won bindings, that how it start, greedy Jew mi Cuntery, is true mi Grandt farter he me tel.
2006-12-23 12:48:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
None of the churches that exist today did. The Catholic or "universal" church divided into the western Catholic (later the Roman Catholic) and the Eastern Orthodox church back in the 11th century. The western Catholic church divided yet again into the Roman Catholic and the Protestant churches some centuries later.
2006-12-23 12:33:17 · answer #9 · answered by Martin S 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Is it the same Church that has killed more people in the name of religion than any other group in human history?
yes its the Catholic Church!
Ps Torah means the first five books of Moses (Pentateuch) The word your looking for is Tanach
2006-12-23 12:27:36 · answer #10 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋