What scriptures would the Bereans follow in 55 AD? The Old Testament. And since when does the OT lead one to believe in Jesus Christ without the New Testament?
Acts 17: 10-14).
Are you now going to argue that what they said they did, they actually did not do? Careful, you could soon be seeing pink unicorns from Jupiter. If you do not believe people meant what they said, then why bother with Scripture? It doesn't make any sense. Unless you just want to argue. Or defend the indefensible.
John 5:39: Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life; and they are they which testify of me.
What is so hard to understand about searching the ot scriptures and finding Christ? Unless you don't believe Christ meant what he said..
“And since when does the OT lead one to believe in Jesus Christ without the New Testament?”
Act 17:2-3, “And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.”
This is the message that Paul preached in the synagogues, including Berea. He preached that Jesus was the Messiah (Christ)and they would have searched the Isaiah and Zechariah prophecies to see if it was as Paul interpreted the scriptures concerning a “suffering Messiah”.
Since the beginning; in the garden at the expulsion of man due to sin God said:
“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” [Gen 3].
The Abrahamic covenant: [Gen 17]
4 “As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations. 5 No longer will you be called Abram [j] ; your name will be Abraham, [k] for I have made you a father of many nations. 6 I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you. 7 I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. 8 The whole land of Canaan, where you are now an alien, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God.”
(Note verse 8.)
The covenant w/ Jacob: “That all peoples on earth will be blessed through him and his offspring.”
The [original] Passover; wherein all the firstborn died except for those whose houses had the blood of the sheep at the top bottom and sides... a picture of the points of a cross.
The Passover feast in its rituals; see the three crackers and the napkin one.
The whole of the Old Testament points to Jesus, as does the whole of the New Testament. As John said, in the Beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word WAS God... and the Word became flesh...
Seen in this perspective there is/was a constant revealing of what God was/is up to & His own Word provides plenty of foreshadowing even of these days. (See Rev.)
Ah ... the Bereans were already believers.