Did they edit out some stories in the second testament? I don't know because I never read the second one. I read the first...
2007-06-09 17:14:20 · 6 answers · asked by Jaguar88 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Do you mean old and new. Jesus is in the new testament and developing hte new Church, leading the Jews into Christianity.
2007-06-09 17:20:13 · answer #1 · answered by Dawn-Marie 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Both testaments (66 books total) are about many things and each one is like a love letter to us from God in that that is how HE speaks to us. But in a nutshell, the OT is about a just God Who rewards obedience. The New Testament is about Jesus, (God AND man) who brings redemption and forgiveness and love. While love is in the OT, the promise of love became life in the NT. In fact, the Bible says Jesus is the living embodiment of the Word. He is the Word and has been since before the beginning of time.
There's so much more, I hated to condense it down like that. I'm sure others can make more comprehensive comparisons.
(When I said 66 books, I meant the Protestant Bible. The Catholic or Jerusalem Bible contains 14 additional books called the Apocrypha rejected by the Protestants for various reasons)
2007-06-10 00:22:20 · answer #2 · answered by mrpeachycat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Old Testament is the religious history of God with the first men and the Jewish people before Jesus was born. The 2nd or New Testament is the history of Jesus and his followers and the guidelines for following Jesus who is said to be the Son of God.
It is stated by many that several writings were not included in the New Testament as they were not considered to be proven or eye witness accounts etc.
2007-06-10 00:20:19 · answer #3 · answered by Poohcat1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About 400 years separates the events of the OT and the NT. The OT is chiefly about the founding of the lineage from Creation through the founding of Isreal, the exile in Babylon, and related prophets, the Psalms of David, and some other exile and post-exile era prophets.
The NT consists of the four Gospel accounts of the life of Jesus (Mathew, Mark, Luke and John), including Acts (which is really a continuation of Luke), the letters of Paul and other apostles to the young churches advising them on issues of faith and social construction and ends with the Revelation about the Second Coming of Christ. Christians believe that the OT covers God's first covenant with his chosen people, while the NT covers God's second covenant, expanded to cover all the peoples of the world.
2007-06-10 00:27:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first testament is called "The Holy Bible"
The second is called"The Book of Mormon"
2007-06-10 00:19:08 · answer #5 · answered by speedy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Christ.
he fullfilled the OT
and just like time from B.C. to A.D. it became new
2007-06-10 00:18:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋