If not, then who was Paul writing to?
2007-12-07 04:41:20 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Laura, you are correct Jesus taught from the Jewish Bible AKA the Old Testament. Christians that quote the New Testament are recognizing the legitimacy of Catholic teaching authority because the Church predated and determined the content of the New Testament under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
2007-12-07 04:47:41 · update #1
Yes, PeaceisfromGod, exactly what i am getting at is that Church tradition predates the New Testament and in fact even produced the New Testament. I wish fundamentalists would stop trying to use our book to tell us what we believe.
2007-12-07 04:54:04 · update #2
When Yeshua (what his friends and family called him) walked the earth, his Bible was the Tanach, similar to the Old Testament. He referred to it constantly. He followed everything in it. He also said that He came to the people of the Tanach, the Hebrews. To the Jews first, then the gentiles.
There were no Gospels, no letters, no Acts until after His death.
The "traditions" of the modern Christian churches mostly don't appear in either testament. The gentiles were not part of the early "Christian" church. They were all Jews.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "our book." In the New Testament it is stated over and over that he came for the Jews. It is their book first. The gentiles who follow Him will be grated in, but do not own Yeshua's teachings.
"Christ" is nothing more than a Greek (poor) translation of the word "Moshiach" or "HaMoshiach" - Messiah. The word Messian runs throughout both testaments, but He is Messiah to the Jews.
2007-12-07 05:10:10 · answer #1 · answered by cmw 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christianity was being formed while the New Testament was being written.
Notes which would later become the four gospels were being written during and prior to the life time of Jesus.
I would date the birth of the church as the day Jesus rose from the dead, but that's only 50 days off from the day of pentecost.
Acts chapter one predates Pentecost and Acts chapter two covers the Day of Pentecost.
All of the Epistles came later.
Pastor Art
2007-12-07 05:38:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good question. The new testament was written by cristians so they were not fanatical about the texts because some died befre the new testament was written, Stephen and John the baptist. Ofcourse there were some notes also taken down by eye witnesse some of which were used by Luke to write his account. it is the Word of God but obviously the Christians did exist oat the start only with the old testament and a memory of their life with Jesus, that is what they saw, and practiced, isnt that what catholics call tradition?
2007-12-07 04:50:13 · answer #3 · answered by peaceisfromgod 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Christians were the followers of Jesus and existed before anyone wrote anything down. The new testament as we have it today wasn't finalized until around 367 in Athanasius' Easter letter.
So yes, Christianity predates the NT by about 3 centuries.
2007-12-07 04:48:39 · answer #4 · answered by jones.lauris 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No.
Christianity was formed by Jesus. The Christ. It is based on the records of his teachings. The new testament is the time between his, life, death, rising, and shortly after. So any book written about Christ does not predate christianity becuse it can not predate him.
2007-12-07 04:45:51 · answer #5 · answered by Viking Raider 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not all of the New Testament occurred at the same time. Christianity started with Jesus, whose life is told in the New Testament. Therefore, Christianity cannot predate that part of the NT. However, it does predate the rest.
2007-12-07 04:44:40 · answer #6 · answered by Free Thinker A.R.T. ††† 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No:they were first called christians at Antioch because they followed the teachings of Christ.Apostle Paul was writing even as all these things were happening.After all if you will notice his writings were taken from his letters which he wrote while being imprisoned for his belief.The other disciples wrote their own books too.It may have not been compiled into one volume but they were certainly written.For example John wrote the Revelation while in exile.However all who are savd are saved by grace in Old and New Testament.
2007-12-07 04:51:22 · answer #7 · answered by ALLEN G 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ofcourse. Christianity started at Pentecost, 33 a.d. Christ appointed Peter (the Pope), as the head of the Apostles (Bishops), to preach the Gospel orally. The New Testament was written from 50-90 a.d.
2007-12-07 04:44:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I'm no Christian, but I thought the old testament was written before Jesus was around, so Paul wasn't writing to him I would imagine. Who knows though. It doesn't add up for me. Best wishes! P.S.~ How could Christianity start before Christ was born? For Pete's sake, you people make absolutely zero sense. Do you think Buddhism started up before Buddha? *rolls eyes in disbelief*
2007-12-07 04:44:41 · answer #9 · answered by hmm 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes. The NT was written for the new Christians.
2007-12-08 02:25:43 · answer #10 · answered by RB 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋