“Unfortunately your argument contains the seeds of its own destruction because if that logic is taken to its conclusion it would mean that all of the New Testament is redundant. Christ coming down to Earth itself and suffering and dying would make it seem sadistic since we could all have been saved by living the likes of Noah and Moses.”
No, I don’t think so. You see, Christ could never be redundant, for if He hadn’t come down to Earth and completed God’s plan for salvation, then Moses and Noah would never have been able to obtain salvation either. So, there is no chance that, even if we could all find faith in Christ outside of even the NT, that Christ would be redundant.
Thank you. This proves what I was saying before. We needed Christ to come down on earth and complete the process of salvation and have His Church survive through the end of time. Hence all His words, written and unwritten, as well as all His deeds, recorded and unrecorded, were not redundant. This is why the Apostolic traditions carried out by the early Church Fathers to this day explaining the sacraments and the institution of the Holy Eucharist is central to the Great Commission given by Christ to Peter and His apostles to “Go forth and teach all nations....” One unerring truth to all nations through the end of time.