[American in Israel]

Glad he retired.

[imardmd1]

The Risen Messiah Jesus was walking with two of His disappointed followers toward the village of Emmaus on the Resurrection Day. This is the counsel He gave them:

"Then he said unto them,

O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?

And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself" (Luke 24:25-27 AV).

The overall theme of the Bible is the Coming of the Messiah and His Kingdom of Righteousness and Peace. The purpose of the Bible is to present The God's Plan of Salvation.

The person who thinks one can do without the pre-Cross Holy Writings, the Old Covenant of Law, has no basis for the ones that guided His institution of the New Covenant of Grace which began at the Pentecost following His Resurrection.

Anyone who dismisses the Tanakh is a fool and slow of heart to believe the Messiah. It is impossible to grow spiritually without studying how God dealt with mankind before the coming of the Gospel, to which the incarnation of Jesus as Messiah and His sufferings on the Cross is the only answer.

[JAKraig]

There is nothing complicated about this but unfortunately the author is much misguided.

The Old Testament prepares the world for Jesus Christ. Nearly every prophecy refers to the coming of The Savior.

When Moses spoke to God in the Burning Bush He was speaking to The Great Jehovah, or Christ.

When the law of Sacrifice was put into writing by Moses it was to remind us of the coming sacrifice of The Savior that could save us all.

When Moses tells the story of Abraham taking Issac up the mountain to sacrifice him to God, he was only being shown how great a sacrifice He was willing to make to save us, the world.

Then there is the Book of Isaiah one of the most beautiful writings of all mankind which tells of The Christ to come and of the 2nd coming of The Christ.

It would be terrible to not know the Old Testament which brings us to Christ. It would be stupidity to have the words of God and ignore them because there are newer words. They all go together. If a prophet brought us a new writing from God would we just ignore it because we already have some words of God. No of course not, we would all race to see what it has to say.

Whomever decided to put The Old Testament and The New Testament into one book did us a most wonderful favor.

[robroys woman]

Jesus and the apostles (not to mention Stephen) quoted the OT quite a bit. It is the historical context and prophesies leading to Jesus. It is critical to understanding and gives a full context to the gospel message.

IMO.

But if I could only have one, it would be the new testament. It’s kinda like this choice: Do you want the car, or do you want the plans for the car?

[Hebrews 11:6]

I actually enjoy the Old Testament a great deal and continue to benefit from it

Well-stated. I concur fully.

[YogicCowboy]

Matthew 5: 17-20.