Most Evangelicals ignore the Torah (Old Testament) because they believe it was “nailed to the Cross” and therefore it’s irrelevant to them. They ignore it at their own spiritual peril because there’s a lot of the New Testament that is easily misinterpreted without a good foundation in the Torah.
I thank God He has given me a desire to understand all His word, not just the New Testament. Otherwise, your average JW would run circles around me and I think they would run circles around many FReepers, too.
Doesn’t it make God’s Word rich when you actually “read” Numbers, Leviticus and Deuteronomy, and put them in context with the NT?
The first time I read Leviticus at the same time I was reading Hebrews was a moment of exhiliration.