If you could choose one person from the Old Testament and one person from the New Testament...?

Question

to meet and to talk to (excluding God and Jesus), who would you pick and why? Thanks for reading and have a great day!

Job and Paul are my choices.

good answers so far, thanks to all. To elaborate on my choices, Job because I would love to know how to have such patience when all is going wrong, and Paul, because of His work in the Mission field and to just pick his brain. The things He could tell. :)

Answer 1

I'd choose Absalom from the OT because he was reputed to be so handsome and I'd want to see if he compared favourably with me.

From the NT I'd choose Salome(even though she's not called by this name in the Bible, other sources confirm this was her name) just to check out her dance moves.

Answer 2

Well, I like Tobit (OT) so I'd probably pick him. As for the New Testament... probably that dragon from Revelation, but maybe Mary. I am an atheist but I would find it EXTREMELY interesting if I could talk with them, because it would be very cool to get an inside view on what actually did or did not happen. I just like Tobit's story, so that is why I would meet with him, and I would pick either the dragon because I want to see if Revelation is supposed to be literal or metaphorical (leaning toward the second) and if it is metaphorical who that dragon really is... if it is the devil like some say then I think that would be cool because he is god's adversary, so that is kind of as big as you can get since you've excluded god and jesus. I might pick mary too, because I would want to know about her life and how that conception really went, and if she had other kids or anything. And if that is her at all those supposed apparitions. But really I think I'd rather chat with the dragon.

Answer 3

David and John

They both had such a great revelation of God's love.

I didn't say Paul because that is an obvious answer, in which a lot of other people said. I too, would love to talk with Paul. But, think about John's revelations of God. Not only Revelation the book, but his three epistles and in his gospel, he never refers to himself as John, but the disciple whom Jesus loved.
That is not because he was arrogant, it was showing us that we all should have that same mindset. We should all come to a realization on how much God loves us.

Answer 4

What an intriguing question! How much time do we have to reflect upon this?

From the Old Testament, Solomon would be my first choice.
Solomon was a man of great wisdom who grew up in the shadows of a great warrior, his father, Kind David. There must have been times that he felt inferior and it would be interesting to know how he found his sense of self and if he felt like he somehow disappointed his father. Solomon could answer many questions about King David as well.

Surely the wisdom that was bestowed upon him must have been a burden. How is it that he could carry it and still fall from his pedestal? I know that he fell because in his wealth he forgot God, but how did that manage to sneak up on him?

And I would like to know what it was that the Queen of Sheba desired from him, as alluded to in the 10th chapter of 1st Kings.

From the New Testament I would choose Peter. In comparison to other characters, the Bible doesn't tell us much about Peter. We know he denied knowing Christ, we know that he walked on water until he took his eyes off of Jesus, and we know that that Jesus told him, he was the rock upon which He would build His church.

It seems to me that Jesus had more faith in Peter, than Peter had in Jesus! There has to be something more to him than meets the eye.

Why don't we have more testimony from Peter? After the first Pentecost, his voice just seems to fade away..........

Answer 5

I would choose Judas from the New Testament, because he was the only one with the Guts to tell Jesus that his actions were riling up the Jews and it would lead to their destruction by the Romans, which actually happened in 70 AD.

I would choose Saul in the OT because he kept trying his best even after being neglected by God for a new king. God forced him into a position of fighting for his crown to prove to the Israelites that they shouldn't have wanted a king. Saul continued to try to lead them dispute being used by God as a lesson. He was quite a man.

Answer 6

Job is a good choice, i like it. But I think I would go with Moses. I would like to have been in the desert with him just to smack Him around a little bit for not obeying God as well as those with him that wanted to go back to Egypt. In the new testament I would have liked to met John. I see Him as the ultimate example of faith, leading the way for someone He did not even know.

Answer 7

OT - King David or maybe Joseph (would really like to know about ancient Egypt)

NT - Mary Magdalene or Mary mother of Jesus for women, men would be John the Baptist, Paul or Peter.

Answer 8

It's hard to choose. I'd love to ask Deborah what it was like to be a female ruler/leader of a nation back in ancient and patriarchal times. Plus Paul because I'm an intellectual and I'm fascinated by the complexity of many of his writings!

Answer 9

Old Testament - Deborah. She was a judge, and I bet she'd have a lot of good stories!

New Testament - John, because I would like some clarification about exactly what he did see in Revelation.

Good question.

Answer 10

Moses - OT,

Judas Iscariot- NT

Moses- He saw and was in God's Presence.

Judas Iscariot- He was in God's Presence as well, and betrayed Him. How? Why? Beyond the obvious 30 pieces of silver. This, and to maybe taunt him for being so amazingly stupid.