Where exactly does it say in the bible to forget about the OT and go by the NT?

Answer 1

It doesn't. People try to claim they are freed from the rules by their perfect god because Jesus was sacrificed but they don't seem to understand the concept that their perfect god would not have just spoke these words for the hell of it.

Yes, pun intended.

Answer 2

Holy Bible = Old and New Testaments.
It's written as a Before/After God shew.
Will of God is notably the same in both.
Both are looked at to solve the mystery.
NT called "better testament": Heb 7:22.
NT also has a "better hope": Heb 7:19.
Yet better is only better for some, not all.
So then consider what's best, and for all.
For there is no respect of persons with God.

The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

Answer 3

The last words of Jesus to His disciples were "Go into all the world and preach the gospel * to the whole creation. He who believes and is baptized will be saved, but he who does not believe will be condemned. "

* Gospel, meaning the teachings of Jesus

One authority states it like this: "And after this, Jesus himself sent out by means of them, from east to west, the sacred and imperishable proclamation of eternal salvation."

It is at this point that the Christians (followers of the Word of Christ and his teachings) split from the Jewish faith and founded the new Church, preaching the "Good News." (Again meaning the gospels of Jesus.)

The New Testament which contains the gospels is the basis, the very foundation, of the newer Christian Church and therefore is the more pertinent of the two books. However, since Christiandom has the same history as the Jews, the Old testament has been retained.

Answer 4

Most Christians who have more than an elementary understanding of the Bible are aware that the OT is also refered to as law and the NT is also known as Grace. With this in mind:
Joh 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Rom 5:20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
Rom 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
Rom 6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

We are never told to forget about the OT. Jesus never said anything that abolished the OT; he simply fulfilled the law FOR US. It was his atoning sacrifice that paid our debt:
Rom 5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
In His Service,
John the Baptist

Answer 5

We don't forget about the Old Testament ,but we don't have to keep the Jewish Mosaic Laws.Collosians 2 is one good place to read.
I love the Old Testament but I'm eating pork ribs and lobster and going to church on the Lord's day (Sunday) not the Saturday Sabbath.I rest in Jesus' finished work on the cross ,so technically,I Sabbath every day.All those laws were shadows of Christ who fulfilled them.
Remember in Isaiah where God says he will do away with the Law written on stone and write it on our hearts?That is what happened at the Day of Pentecost Acts 2.

Answer 6

Nowhere actually.

In Romans 4, Paul references "scripture" and it is the OT that he references; likewise with James (James 2), and Peter (1 Peter 2, and 2 Peter 1).

It seems clear to me that whne the writers of the NT referred to "scripture" it is the OT they have in mind.

HTH

Charles

Answer 7

Just reading about that this morning.
People try to put us under the Old Testament and they want to pick and choose what they follow. like stoning witches, adulterers ect. animal sacrifices. We don't do that in the New Testament..
Almost all of the laws are repeated in the New Testament when Jesus said love God with all your heart and your neighbor as yourself. Some were made even more difficult as when a man only looks at a woman and thinks adultery, he is guilty..
Being in the new testament does not give us a license to sin.

Answer 8

Nowhere- when people say that the NT negates the OT, then they are saying that Jesus died so that we can continue in our sin and still be saved- no where does it say that in either testament. Jesus did not come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it-

Answer 9

Acts chapter 15

Answer 10

1) “For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass the law until all is accomplished. Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 5:18-19 RSV) Clearly the Old Testament is to be abided by until the end of human existence itself. None other then Jesus said so.

2) All of the vicious Old Testament laws will be binding forever. "It is easier for Heaven and Earth to pass away than for the smallest part of the letter of the law to become invalid." (Luke 16:17 NAB)

3) Jesus strongly approves of the law and the prophets. He hasn’t the slightest objection to the cruelties of the Old Testament. "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest part or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place." (Matthew 5:17 NAB)

3b) "All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for refutation, for correction, and for training in righteousness..." (2 Timothy 3:16 NAB)

3c) "Know this first of all, that there is no prophecy of scripture that is a matter of personal interpretation, for no prophecy ever came through human will; but rather human beings moved by the holy Spirit spoke under the influence of God." (2 Peter 20-21 NAB)

4) Jesus criticizes the Jews for not killing their disobedient children according to Old Testament law. Mark.7:9-13 "Whoever curses father or mother shall die" (Mark 7:10 NAB)

5) Jesus is criticized by the Pharisees for not washing his hands before eating. He defends himself by attacking them for not killing disobedient children according to the commandment: “He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.” (Matthew 15:4-7)

6) Jesus has a punishment even worse than his father concerning adultery: God said the act of adultery was punishable by death. Jesus says looking with lust is the same thing and you should gouge your eye out, better a part, than the whole. The punishment under Jesus is an eternity in Hell. (Matthew 5:27)

7) Peter says that all slaves should “be subject to [their] masters with all fear,” to the bad and cruel as well as the “good and gentle.” This is merely an echo of the same slavery commands in the Old Testament. 1 Peter 2:18

8) “Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law" (John7:19) and “For the law was given by Moses,..." (John 1:17).

9) “...the scripture cannot be broken.” --Jesus Christ, John 10:35