Old and New Together are True
Both Old and New Testament are logos!
Old and New Testament
Love without truth is hypocrisy
Truth without love is brutality
Jesus is pure truth and love
Jesus is the logos - the word
The logos is the full Bible
The full Bible is Old and New
You cannot claim to love Jesus
And dismiss the Old Testament
The Old Testament is the logos
Just like the New Testament is
The Old Testament is the
New Testament Concealed
The New Testament is the
Old Testament Revealed
Both Old and New Testament are logos!
The Old Testament
The Old Testament is foundational.
The Old Testament establishes principles.
The Old Testament contains prophecies.
The Old Testament is history of a people.
The Old Testament shows the wrath of God
against sin (with glimpses of His grace).
The Old Testament predicts a Messiah (see Isaiah 53).
The Old Testament records the giving of God’s Law.
In the Old Testament, God’s dealings are
mainly with His chosen people, the Jews.
Physical blessings promised in the Old Testament
are under the Old Covenant (Deuteronomy 29:9)
The Old Testament saw paradise lost for Adam.
The Old Testament declares that man was
separated from God through sin (Genesis 3).
A Passover lamb is revealed in the Old Testament (Ezra 6:20).
The Old Testament predicted the Messiah’s life.
The Old Testament prophecies relate the coming of Christ.
The New Testament
The New Testament focus is on a Person.
The New Testament shows the grace of God
toward sinners (with glimpses of His wrath).
The New Testament reveals who
the Messiah is (John 4:25–26).
The New Testament shows how Jesus the Messiah
fulfilled that Law (Matthew 5:17; Hebrews 10:9).
In the New Testament, God’s dealings are
mainly with His church (Matthew 16:18).
Physical blessings in the Old Testament give way
to spiritual blessings under the New Covenant (Ephesians 1:3).
The New Testament clarifies that the Law was
meant to show men their need of salvation and
was never intended to be the means of salvation (Romans 3:19).
The New Testament shows how paradise is
regained through the second Adam (Christ).
The New Testament declares that man can be
restored in his relationship to God (Romans 3—6).
The Gospels in the New Testament record Jesus’ life,
and the Epistles interpret His life and
how we are to respond to all He has done.
Old and New Testaments
The Old Testament prophecies that relate the coming of Christ. although incredibly detailed, contain a certain amount of ambiguity that is cleared up in the New Testament.
For example, the prophet Isaiah spoke of the death of the Messiah (Isaiah 53) and the establishing of the Messiah’s kingdom (Isaiah 26) with no clues concerning the chronology of the two events—no hints that the suffering and the kingdom-building might be separated by millennia.
In the New Testament, it becomes clear that the Messiah would have two advents: in the first He suffered and died (and rose again), and in the second He will establish His kingdom.
Because God’s revelation in Scripture is progressive, the New Testament brings into sharper focus principles that were introduced in the Old Testament.
The book of Hebrews describes how Jesus is the true High Priest and how His one sacrifice replaces all previous sacrifices, which were mere foreshadowings. The Passover lamb of the Old Testament becomes the Lamb of God in the New Testament (John 1:29).
Summary
In summary, the Old Testament lays the foundation for the coming of the Messiah who would sacrifice Himself for the sins of the world (1 John 2:2).
The New Testament records the ministry of Jesus Christ and then looks back on what He did and how we are to respond.
Both testaments reveal the same holy, merciful, and righteous God who condemns sin but desires to save sinners through an atoning sacrifice.
In both testaments, God reveals Himself to us and shows us how we are to come to Him through faith (Genesis 15:6; Ephesians 2:8).
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