why was a new testament created??? was it because the ppl who wrote the old one realized just how violent?

Question

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Answer 1

Hello dear!
XAIPE 8EA!
Well, not really! The first books were composed by Moses, to get the slaves out of his country. Later, others were written to serve, again, the rulers. The last were composed by the Macedonian rulers of Egypt, the Ptolemies, to keep people, Jews and others, under control. Then, Constantine, had to compose the new testament in order to create a long lasting empire, and he succeeded!
Definitely, those books have nothing to do with gods, what so ever, they are weapons of the rulers! There is nothing more profitable and strong than trading hope!

Answer 2

Early Christians had no intention of adding to the Hebrew scriptures. Jesus was coming back. Paul's letters to the missionary communities were just that, letters, sermons on paper.

Then apostles started dying off, and people started worrying about losing the consensus of what Jesus taught and did. A few other things happened too: Jews banned Christians from synagogues, and a Jewish uprising in 67 CE led to the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70. This made Jews fugitives throughout the Empire and no friends of Christians. So the gospels and subsequesnt letters that were written included clear evidence that Christians were upright, peaceful, law-respecting citizens. Jesus' fight was not with the state but within the heart.

Some Christians overemphasized the differences between the Jewish God and the Christian God, claiming they were two different beings. These came to be known as the Gnostics, who categorically condemned the corrupt, fleshly world and sought the pure world of spirit. The more orthodox view was that creation was good, and that the God of the Old Testament was misunderstood, as evidenced by the peace-promising, light-to-the-gentiles prophecies of latter Isaiah.

Generations separated the writers of each set of scriptures. They had different motivations for their works, conforming to the times in which they lived.

Answer 3

The New Testament was created by the Council of Nicosea from many correspondences of the original disciples. They dropped certain books from the Bible and added some more, in order to eliminate the Christian Wars that had raged for 200 years over the Trinity. For example, the entire Gnostic Scriptures were eliminated because they contained images of Christ that didn't fit their perfect image. At that time, the modern myth of Christ was focused into their own image, and any attempt to reconcile their New Testament with the jewish religion was permanently severed.

Answer 4

Actually there was an element of that. The "New Testament" was more of an assembling of Christian writings, meant to be useful in instructing the Christian communities of faith. There was some debate as to which writings should be regarded as authoritative, but it was fairly well resolved by the time Athanasius assembled the canonical New Testament as we know it today.

The question for the early church fathers was what to do with the Hebrew Bible? There were some obvious problems with accepting it as is, so they had to apply symbolic interpretations to make it applicable to Christianity. But they couldn't just abandon it, because Christianity was obviously born out of Judaism first and foremost. They turned to Jews like Philo of Alexandria for symbolic ways to interpret the scriptures. Even the Jewish communities had to decide how they were going to interpret their own texts, and the first thousand years of Christianity were also a rich time for Jewish writings as well. It wasn't until the anti-Enlightenment reactionaries started the fundamentalist movement in the 1800's that the "Old Testament" was viewed in a literal fashion. And you can see how much sense that makes...

Peace to you.

Answer 5

The Wisdom of God rules the world. The development of man as required by God was being treathened by a stand still due to the errors which had crept in through the distortion caused by those who sought to dissect and interprete the messages brought by Called ones and prophets of the Most High.

Consequently, Jesus came to preach the gospel in order to bring enlightenment and clarity to the few who longed for it.

Remember that the new testament is based on the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Answer 6

The new testament was created because of the new covenant God made with man where Jesus became the perfect sacrifice to atone once and for all for the sins of mankind. Yes, the old testament was really ugly sometimes, but it was man's choices that led it to be so. It was our failure to keep that covenant that led God in his love for us to find another way to reconcile his perfection with our obvious lack thereof.

Answer 7

The new testament is the true story of the new covenant world of superabundant grace in Jesus Christ.

Without that grace, existence on earth was a lot like hell, since everyone was separated from God, and permanently enslaved to satan, sin, and death.

Satan had no compunction about wasting human life in his battle against God, but satan had no power over anyone without sin, and when satan arranged the death of the innocent Jesus at the hands of his jewish and roman minions, satan unwittingly engineered the destruction of his own evil dominion, just as God always knew he would.

Answer 8

It is only seen as violent to those who do not know God as their Father. Once you turn from your sins and receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior, then God will adopt you into His Family. Then you will be able to see Him as your loving Heavenly Father who loved you enough to give His only begotten Son, who lived a sinless life, to die in your place so that you can spend all of eternity with Him.

The God of the Old Testiment is the same God of the New.

Answer 9

The God of the O.T. is the same God of the N.T. He doesn't change, "therefore knowing the terror of the Lord we persuade men" He loves those who love Him, so choose your side very carefully. Hell is more violent then anything you could possibly imagine.

ARGAMANI: You sound like a jew "according to the flesh", but the real jew is one "according to the spirit"

Answer 10

Read the Bible and find out… By the way, combat is necessary and justified in a violent world.