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For Christians, the NT is like a drivers's manual. The OT is the technical manual.Oh so funny, apparently I have been referring to it for a long time and never noticed the Jewish Bible on top:
Here is a link to the online Tanakh,
Yeshayahu - Chapter 1 - Tanakh Online - Torah - Bible
Marg, not all of us get into your jewish history book, we use it as a reference.
the bible is incomplete without the NT as far as us Christians go, and frankly the NT in my opinion can stand on its own.
Have you ever studied Christianity or Islam, perhaps your the ignorant one, to think we are all dumb enough to think the Jews invented everything.
The key to understanding this issue is knowing that the Old Testament law was given to the nation of Israel, not to Christians. Some of the laws were to reveal to the Israelites how to obey and please God (the Ten Commandments, for example). Some of the laws were to show the Israelites how to worship God and atone for sin (the sacrificial system). Some of the laws were intended to make the Israelites distinct from other nations (the food and clothing rules). None of the Old Testament law is binding on Christians today. When Jesus died on the cross, He put an end to the Old Testament law (Romans 10:4;Galatians 3:23–25;Ephesians 2:15).
Read more:Do Christians have to obey the Old Testament law
Got news for you. Christians & Jews are bound together by the same root. Without the Jews there would be no Jesus. And without Jesus there would be no Christians. And let us remember that Jesus, John the Baptist & all the apostles were Jews.
The Hellenistic Jews wrote the NT (for the most part) , the progressive Jews who were probably tired of war and wanted to become more advanced in the philosophical aspects of the Greek and even Roman culture, as compared to the Orthodox Jews or Traditional as you might want to call them, who ran by the Pharisees wanted to maintain the control over Judaism.
No stoning or floggings in the OT except as done by the traditional Jews.
Jesus was not a traditional or orthodox Jew as he well displayed. Christianity really didn't start till later. I am not bound by the OT and neither was Jesus.
The Bible was written by the Greeks at least 200 years after the death of Jesus, and they put their own spin on things. It was them that introduced the aspect of Hell and a Devil because the original cult of Christianity was based on the Torah being messianic Jews. Jesus was bound by the Torah as that was his religion, what he was not bound by was the violence and bloodshed
Actually there is much evidence that Jewish eschatology came from the Persian Zoroastrians beginning at the time of the Babylonian captivity. No mention of any of this in the Torah. First evidenced in the Book of Daniel. And from the Jews it passed on to the Christians who take it more seriously today than the Jews do.