The Bible is One," you can't make a radical break between the two "testaments."
You most certainly HAVE to my friend.
Heb 8:13
"In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away."
***There was plenty of violence in the Bible and much of it "justified" by invoking God.***
The Jews were given an earthly kingdom. It operated by earthly rules. Christ's Kingdom is heavenly or spiritual and operates by a very different set of rules.
***O think we should stop Islam-bashing***
The history of violence shows that it is not the jihadist but the very nature of Islam that is the problem.
The Bible is One," you can't make a radical break between the two "testaments."
You most certainly HAVE to my friend.
____Not true. The only difference is the person of Christ, who fulfills the prophecies of the original covenant.
Heb 8:13
"In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away."
____Without the old convenant, there could not have been a new one. The history of the Jewish people has been grafted onto the history of the new people of God.