Old Testament...and New Testament?

Question

I don't get it. ...Did the newer generation feel that the Old Testament was like a rough draft and wanted to rewrite it?

What was taken out? And why?...Who actually wrote the Old Testament?

Very curious.

(Please don't put any verses from any biblical text in here (if you could answer this question with that...?). It's like you're taking the easy way out by having "god" explain it for you.)

More specific...

Why was the New Testament written?

Answer 1

The New Testament was written as a historical record of the life of Jesus (the Gospels), as a record of the developing church founded by Jesus (Acts), and as a series of letters written by Paul, James, Jude, Peter, and John as teaching tools to bring correction to problematic new churches.

According to Paul's and Pater's Epistles, the New Testament was written by men, but authored by the Holy Spirit. The same is true of the Old Testament accordingly.

The prophecies written in the Old Testament generally pointed towards the coming Messiah, and end times. As recorded in the New Testament, Jesus fulfilled the prophecies of the Old Testament.

Both Testaments are integral to the faith of any true Believer.

Answer 2

First of all who ever started the words OLD & NEW TESTAMENT was wrong to say that,(giving the idea that old is old and the new will take over.
That is wrong because Jesus quoted the HEBREW SCRIPTURES to make his point and prophesy. The HEBREW SCRIPTURES is much better description of the so called Old Testament.
Calling it The NEW TESTAMENT should not be used. All are in Greek so it should be called The Greek Scriptures. All of what is in the so called New Testament is about from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are books of Jesus teaching and what he did and his life from birth to his death. The book of Acts is about the Apostles and Disciples of Christ...what they did. The rest are letters written for incouragement by many of the Apostles and others to the early congregfations.
Revelation was a vision by John that Jesus showed him and the Angels, for our day.
There was some books in the Hebrew Scriptures, written, that did not fit into the cannon conecting with the other books agreed on spiritualy...but are good history of their time.
Same with the Greek scriptures. They thought that these writings that were omitted
were not inspired which I think was wrong but you can go to a library and look these up.
The Hebrew Scriptures was History, Prophecy, human relations of people bad and good. many of the Apostles and even Jesus quoted them because that was the only sorce of Gods word.
I hope this helped you, sorry this is a lot of info.
Peace.....

Answer 3

Peace!
Whenever there is a contradiction between Old and New Testament teaching the latter should prevail. Some examples: teaching on divorce, retaliation, food, clean and unclean, etc. Although, the Old Testament is the book of the Jewish people we cannot throw it out. The Bible is really about salvation history or God's saving acts to redeem man. That's why we cannot discard the Old Testament.

Answer 4

The Old Testament was law before Christ was born. See in the Old Testament the Jews was the chosen one. The New Testament was written during the birth of Jesus and after his death. And when Jesus came he was the living word and he was the Law. The Ten Commandments is still part of the Law. But when Jesus died for our sin we no longer had to give a sacrifice and we did not need know one to go to God for us because Jesus paid for it all so you can go to the father for yourself. When Jesus came he made everything better. The Bible was written by different people in the Bible. But truthfully it is written according to God word. Because God gave Man the knowledge to write it.

Answer 5

The New Testament is the fulfillment of the Old Testament.

Read Hebrews Chapters 9 and 10.

(The NIV uses covenant in the place of the word testament).

Answer 6

The old testament was before Jesus died. The new testament had to change some things. We are to read and understand the history of God and Jesus and the old Testament provides us with that knowledge, however the New Testament is our manual to life.

Answer 7

Basically the OT is a Hebrew religion, still practiced by the Jews.

The NT resulted from a man (Jesus) trying to overthrow the old rreligion and the Roman occupation. There are obviously two very different belief systems between the two, but Christians try to make them into a single belief system. Most fail miserably to rreconcile the two without being intellectually dishonest.

Answer 8

I've heard it put this way:

"The Old Testament is the New Testament concealed and the New Testament is the Old Testament revealed."

Answer 9

The OT is the story of the relationship between man and God before the fall, during the fall and after the fall. Meaning when Adam sinned. From there it is the story of the nation of Israel and how God was preparing them to be His people. It was the line that Christ would come through. All the prophets are there to tell God's people to repent and return to God and they speak of the coming of the Savior. The NT as you know is the life, death and return of Christ. I realize that the OT seems outdated to many people but if Christ is of interest to you it is good to see how He was prophesied in the OT.

Answer 10

Everything in the old testament describes and points to Jesus Christ, the promised Messiah and redeemer.

Everything in the new testament confirms that he was born, was crucified, is risen, and will come again.