The Old Testament serves as a foundation for the teachings of God, while the New Testament continues to build and preserve God’s principles. The Old Testament and New Testament have a very unique relationship, as they are complementary to each other. The Old Testament contains many prophecies that are fulfilled in the New Testament. God can be viewed as fearsome in the Old Testament, whereas God portrays a friendlier and more compassionate persona in the New Testament. Although there are many differences between the two, there are also many similarities due to the heavy influence that the writings of the Old Testament had on the books and passages of the New Testament. An example of similarity between the Old Testament and the New Testament can be examined between passages from the First Book of Samuel and the Gospel of Luke, located in the Old Testament and New Testament respectively. The First Book of Samuel, named after Samuel himself, can be found in the Old Testament and is also part of the Deuteronomistic History. There are many scholars that believe Samuel himself wrote this book, but the authorship is still relatively unknown. The First Book of Samuel appears to be written during the divided monarchy but before the fall of the northern kingdom. The Book tells the stories of Samuel, Saul, and David. The first part of the book describes the birth and story of Saul. The second part describes the relationship between Samuel and Saul. Finally, the third part describes the relationship between Saul and David. Samuel, a prophet anointed to speak of God’s word to the nation, represents one way of governing. God works through the prophet’s words to remind the people of Israel to be faithful to the terms of the Covenant. A second ... ... middle of paper ... ...e very similar in context, both use different vocabulary to portray their message. For example, Hannah refers God as the “LORD”, whereas Mary refers to God as “He”. Hannah mentions God a “ROCK”, as a rock is firm and strong. Mary mentions God as the “Mighty One”. To conclude, the Old Testament and the New Testament are very similar in many aspects. The New Testament had fulfilled what the Old Testament had prophesized. Many of the books in the New Testament were influenced by the books in the Old Testament. The First Book of Samuel and the Gospel According to Luke are excellent examples of how the Old Testament and New Testament are similar. The dialogues of Hannah in 1 Samuel 2:1-11 and Mary in Luke 1:46-56 share similar diction and reoccurring themes. Both woman express their joyfulness and praise towards God for all of the wonderful things He has done for them.
The Hebrew Bible, better known as the Old Testament, is a collection of tomes that form part of the Biblical canon. Many scholars around the world do not think that a single author wrote the books contained in the Hebrew Bible, but rather that it represents centuries of stories frequently compiled after the events they describe . The stories were created with visions for the future, in order to allow audiences insight into communities and beliefs that were common thought during their era. The stories responded to the issues and problems of their time, but also addressed contemporary climates. While the stories themselves may not be true, they convey truth without needing literal readings. For example, the creation stories in Genesis, portray God as creating the universe, and while this is considered as not ‘literally true’; the stories communicate theological truths about mankind’s relationship with God through the eyes of Hebrew writers .
The Old Testament and the Bible itself has been studied extensively for centuries. Archeologists and Scholars have labored and pondered over texts trying to decipher its clues. It does not matter how many times the Old Testament has been studied there will always be something new to learn about it or the history surrounding it. In the book Reading the Old Testament: an Introduction, the author Lawrence Boadt presents us with a few different authors of the Old Testament that used different names for God and had a unique insight into the texts. These four sources are titled P for priests, E for Elohim, J for Jehovah, and Y for Yahweh (95). These four unique sources help us realize that there is more than one author of the Pentateuch. These authors took the text and adapted for their culture. This independent source is used by scholars to help gain insight into what was behind the texts of the bible so we are not left with an incomplete picture of what went into the creation of the bible. Julius Wellhausen used these four sources to publish a book to able us to better understand the sources and to give it credibility with the Protestant scholars at the time (Boadt 94). These sources that is independent of the bible as in the DVD Who Wrote the Bible? and the Nova website aide in shedding light on the history that surrounded the writers who wrote the text and what inspired them to write it in the first place. The DVD shows the discovery of The Dead Sea Scrolls and the extensive history of the texts and all its sources in an effort to try to find exactly who wrote the bible (Who Wrote). These scrolls have aided scholars immensely by giving us some of the oldest known manuscripts of the bible in the world today. It shows that the bible w...
God would rise up Prophets from among his people to interpret Gods word and share it with his people (Deuteronomy 18:15). God decided to use a young boy named Samuel to be his spokesman and to communicate his will with the people of Israel. God came to Samuel at night calling him to lead the nation of Israel back to him.
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1 Samuel was written at the beginning of a transition for the people of Israel. Samuel reports the end of the era of judges to the new era involving kingmenship (Dragga,1987). This transition is recorded in 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, and then again in 1 and 2 Chronicles through a priestly perspective. Through these books you can read the reasoning for Israel wanting to switch from judges to kings, why Saul was chosen as the first king, the comparison between King David and King Saul, and finally the sin of King Solomon that caused a separation in Israel.
The basic story of the New Testament is that Jesus Christ is God incarnate as our Savior. All the Gospel authors, whether first-hand witnesses or faithful writers, described ways in which Jesus of Nazareth fulfilled Old Testament prophecies about the Messiah to come. The death and resurrection of Jesus are pivotal to the story of the Old and New Testament, as the climax and fulfillment of the salvation hopes expressed from the beginning of recorded history. The Gospels not only describe the birth and death of Jesus of Nazareth, but detail his life and teaching including minutiae which parallel portions of the Old Testament - and one would think this truth would have been recognized by more of His contemporaries. The rejection that was experienced by Christ in his day opened the door for redemption for the uttermost parts of the world, after which Israel is finally restored to Him.
The similarities are great, but the differences are just as many. For instance, in the Bible in Genesis 34:1-30 it talks about the defiling of Dinah the daughter of Jacob and how his sons took
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Therefore, majority of the great themes of the Old Testament are confirmed, even when they are also developed in various ways: God as the one creator and ruler of the nations, the election of Israel to be the light of salvation for the world, the presence of God with his people, the possibility (and actuality) of revelation through appointed instruments, history as moving toward God's purposed goal for the world. However, the New Testament is not a mere restatement of Old Testament themes, because of its vital focus on Jesus. This is highlighted where the "wisdom" theme of Proverbs and Job, which had already been considerably developed in the intertestamental period, is used by both John and Paul to help explain Jesus, who is both God and separate from God (John 1:1-14; Php 2:5-11). The Old Testament Prophecy is fulfilled as majority of the New Testament authors with James being an exception pick up messianic and other prophecies from the Old Testament and locate their fulfillment in the church and in Jesus. Prophecies relating to the Davidic Messiah, the Son of Man, the prophet like Moses, and the "Servant" of Isaiah are quoted frequently
The Old Testament gives us comfort when we are down, and it encourages us to continue in our fight of faith. The Hebrew Bible is filled with verses to pick us up when we are down. Books such as Proverbs and Psalms are riddled with scripture to use against Satan. It gives us scriptures like Psalms 55:22 which says, “Cast your cares on the Lord and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken (NIV). Jeremiah tells us to call upon Him and He will tell us things that we could never imagine (33:3 NIV). These are just a few that the Old Testament has given us to strengthen our walk with Christ. Another way it does this is by giving us people who had remarkable amounts of faith. Hebrews 11 outlines a number of these men and women
Surveying the Old Testament reveals the theme of God’s faithfulness to his people. In light of this understanding, the restoration of the Israelites prophesized in the Old Testament is essentially the fulfillment of every covenant with God. This perspective relates to the work of Christ and encourages any follower of God to trust in his faithfulness.
The main difference between two Testaments is that God reveals himself in flesh as Christ in human history. Christ comes bearing a mission that changes the destiny of human races. His coming also changes our way to worship. The changes do not wipe out all the meaning of the previous worship, but to reflect our deeper understanding and appreciation for our God’s ultimate sacrifice for us. As the people of God, we must obey our Lord’s commandments and follow his alike to be holy. We should not take the sacrifice of Jesus, God’s only beloved Son for granted. Through Him, our problem of sin has a solution. Our broken relationship with God has re-established. We become a new community who has the Spirit of God dwelling within us. We should worship in every moment in our lives. In this way, we are practicing daily what Deut. 6.4-9 or Mark 12.29-31 say about love our God with all our heart, soul, and might.
Making these connections between the Old Testament and the New Testament is interesting and can be easily done. Moses was a type of Jesus in the Old Testament. There are many connections between Moses and our Lord. An example would be that they both are shepherds. Mose was the shepherd of his father-in-law’s sheep
The New Testament expression kingdom of God has its conceptual antecedents in the Old Testament. One of Jesus emphases is that in him there is the fulfillment of the Old Testament hope. The form of the New Testament message betrays the content, and the content is in harmony with the Old Testament. The disciples and those who do the will of God are the nucleus of this new community, which, like the Old Testament community, is a community in the covenant. Beyond these incidents, Jesus speaks about the kingdom of God in metaphors of eating and banqueting The agenda to which Gods promise of land refers is the agenda of a rich and full life with Yahweh. The affinity between the facets of the divine design in the Old Testament and Jesus and his message
The Old Testament writings, which span many centuries and lands, can be viewed as a garden from which our faith journey and relationship with God was planted and cultivated. It is here we find the beginnings of the hope for a Messiah (Boadt 462-464). Then we see some of the fruit come to bear in the early centuries after Christ, as the apostles traveled to the lands in the Roman empire where there were many Jewish communities. These communities were the receivers of the message of the Gospels which then began to take root and spread (Boadt