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A Guide for the Church
What is the worth of the Old Testament to contemporary Christianity?
Is Christianity weighted down with its association with the Old Testament?
Would the Church be better off if it disregarded the Old Testament?
Paul instructs that ALL Scripture is worth our serious
consideration.
Creation (Genesis 1-2)
The Fall (Genesis 3)
Nature of God (Isa. 40)
Substitutionary atonement (Is. 52: 13-53:12)
New heaven and earth (Isa. 65-66)
Second coming (Zech. 14)
The Rebuke of Jesus on the
road to Emmaus
(Luke 24:25-27 )
77% of all Scripture is in the Old Testament
Hebrews 3:17-4:2
Romans 1:1-2
Attacks by New Testament hereticsInterpretive strategies like allegory in
early Church neutralized the Old Testament
The assumption of typologyThe Enlightenment that focused on how it
was composed rather than what it said.Current interpretive frameworks that
focus on meaning humans place on the text rather than divine revelation
A rabbi speaks