Honest question here about Old Testament....?

Question

Hmmm, quite a number of Christians told me to ignore Old Testament..........so................why not ignore Genesis and accept things like Evolution? That works, doesn't it?

Genesis is OT, right?

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why not*

Answer 1

There is a reason why the OT is included in the Christian Bible. And it's not so that it can be ignored! It doesn't make sense. The OT assures the NT and they work hand in hand. You can still learn a lot from stories like Samuel vs. Eli (Samuel's strength to follow God). King Saul and David, Joseph and other such things!

When it comes to the Bible, trust God would want you to read all of it. The Bible tells us to read it in its entirety, Jesus quotes the OT *all* of the time.

And yes, Genesis is the OT.

Answer 2

If you were studying American history in an effort to be a better American, you could not ignore British history, because America was born out of the British Empire. In the same way, Christians cannot ignore the Jewish scriptures, the record of the history of the Jewish people, what Christians call the Old Testament. It lays all the groundwork for how to properly understand the New Testament. The New Testament was written by Jews and Jewish sympathizers whose only bible was the Old Testament.

For a brief statement on evolution and the bible, click here:
http://www.netbloghost.com/mouw/
The Februrary 23 entry is brief and intelligent statement from the President of Fuller Seminary about the compatibility of the bible and evolution.

Answer 3

Any Christian who told you to ignore the Old Testament lacks understanding the Old Testament is as valid as it ever was and is the true word of God. while the Law has been fufilled by Jesus it has not passed away and many of the teachings of the Old Testament are spiritual and prophetic.

Answer 4

Do not do what people ask you to do, you should know better than that.

Jesus confirmed the Old Testament.He gave us the new Covenant and He promised the New Testament. The main thing is to accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior, and when you do, you also want to do good. Keep the commandments and all that good stuff. Jesus did not come to take the law away, He freed us from law what comes to salvation. Sin needed to be punished by death because the wages of sin was death, and Jesus died for us.

Follow what God asks you to do, not people..they come up with strange stuff...like Muhammed. : )

Answer 5

Any "Christian" who tells you to ignore the OT doesn't know what they're talking about. Jesus told us that the Mosaic Law Covenant, which only applied to the Nation of Israel in the first place, would no longer be necessary after his death and resurrection. 2 Timothy 3:16 clearly states that "All Scripture is inspired" and therefore to be used for our benefit. All the information in the OT is good to know, its just that you are not required to live by the numerous ritualistic laws listed between Exodus and Deuteronomy.

Answer 6

any christian that told you to ignore the ot- doesnt understand that totality of the word of God. The OT leads to Jesus- without Jesus we would be lost- but the old testament tells the stories of the people of God. Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness. Isaiah prophecies came true in Christ. Sin came to the world through one man- ADAM- forgiveness and eternal life came to earth through one Man - Jesus.

Answer 7

Read what Jesus teaches. He teaches us what parts of the OT to take heed of. He taught from the OT on occasion, and directly contradicted that which is no longer relevant.

Answer 8

--How can any Christian choose to ignore the ot if Jesus himself quoted it from Genesis on?

Please notice how Jesus made reference to all of the Hebrew Scriptures OT when he was appearing to his disciples after his being resurrected to earth.---

(Luke 24:13-17) “13 But, look! on that very day two of them were journeying to a village about seven miles distant from Jerusalem [and] named Em·ma´us, 14 and they were conversing with each other over all these things that had come about. 15 Now as they were conversing and discussing, Jesus himself approached and began walking with them; 16 but their eyes were kept from recognizing him. 17 He said to them: “What are these matters that YOU are debating between yourselves as YOU walk along?” And they stood still with sad faces. . .”.....25 So he said to them: “O senseless ones and slow in heart to believe on all the things the prophets spoke! 26 Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?” 27 And commencing at Moses and all the Prophets he interpreted to them things pertaining to himself in all the Scriptures".

--In vs. 27--Jesus referred to all of what Moses wrote which included Genesis--Judges, Job, some of the Psalms etc.
--SO THEN are we to exlude the hundreds of prophecies about Christ coming as the Son of God, Messiah, sacrificial lamb etc. --BECAUSE THESE so called christians say so?

--EVOLUTION is the biggest scientific fraud ever propounded:

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Molecular biologist Michael Denton referred to this glib talk about evolution’s being a fact and dismissed it with these words: “Now of course such claims are simply nonsense.” It’s much more than nonsense. It’s fraud. It deceives and misrepresents. It perverts the truth to induce another to part with something of value. Newspapers, radio, TV, nature series, science programs, schoolbooks from second grade on—all drum this evolution-is-a-fact litany into the public mind. Recently, however, The New York Times reported that California’s school board has issued guidelines for science textbooks that apparently de-emphasize teaching evolution as a fact.—November 10, 1989.

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Astrophysicist Fred Hoyle in his book The Intelligent Universe, on page 9, talks about those, like Greenstein, who fear God’s entering the picture: “Orthodox scientists are more concerned with preventing a return to the religious excesses of the past than in looking forward to the truth [and this concern] has dominated scientific thought throughout the past century.”

In his book he then discusses these same mysterious features that trouble Greenstein. “Such properties,” he says, “seem to run through the fabric of the natural world like a thread of happy accidents. But there are so many of these odd coincidences essential to life that some explanation seems required to account for them.” Both Hoyle and Greenstein say chance cannot explain these many “accidental coincidences.” Hoyle then says that to account for them, ‘the origin of the universe requires an intelligence,’ an ‘intelligence on a higher plane,’ ‘an intelligence that preceded us and that led to a deliberate act of creation of structures suitable for life.’

Answer 9

It would not make sense to choose to believe some parts of the Bible, and not others. The Bible is the Inspired Word of God! All of it is true.

Answer 10

The only way to understand the bible is to study the whole bible. There are keys that are locked away unless you study the whole bible.