The Christian Bible was encompassed from an Old and a New Testament. It is believed that followers of the Christian religion wrote the New Testament while the ancient Israelites wrote the Old Testament, which in turn is what they named the Hebrew Bible. Although Christians did not always see eye to eye with the view of the Jews and thus, chose to not conform to all their beliefs, Christians did in fact incorporate the Hebrew bible into the Christian Bible as what is now called the Old Testament. As a result of this, there are some notable differences in the interpretation of biblical themes between the two testaments. The following essay will notate the developments of Death in the Old Testament and in the New Testament.
To begin with, when …show more content…
Although one can say that the terminology is much different, both Testaments reference death and the afterlife. In the Old Testament the reader can start to see indications that death does not represent the end of it all and thus, can start to decipher that God will not relinquish his people and send them to the end all known as death, but on the contrary will lead them out of the so called darkness in hopes of reaching what believers think to be known as paradise. That being said, according to the New Testament, death is not a method to grant one entrance into paradise, but rather a method for God himself to upturn death and lead his people out of death into paradise. The Old Testament does not mention this much, but there are specific passages where this is obviously and concisely being said. One can come to find that the Gospel of Isaiah is possibly the most daring when it comes to mentioning death and resurrection in addition to the end of the book of Daniel. For example, Isaiah 26:19 says, “But your dead will live; their bodies will rise. You who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for joy. Your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.” The reader can interpret that the point of that massage is to highlight death in a positive light rather than something to fear and embody darkness as it is represent in the Old
To begin with, when …show more content…
Although one can say that the terminology is much different, both Testaments reference death and the afterlife. In the Old Testament the reader can start to see indications that death does not represent the end of it all and thus, can start to decipher that God will not relinquish his people and send them to the end all known as death, but on the contrary will lead them out of the so called darkness in hopes of reaching what believers think to be known as paradise. That being said, according to the New Testament, death is not a method to grant one entrance into paradise, but rather a method for God himself to upturn death and lead his people out of death into paradise. The Old Testament does not mention this much, but there are specific passages where this is obviously and concisely being said. One can come to find that the Gospel of Isaiah is possibly the most daring when it comes to mentioning death and resurrection in addition to the end of the book of Daniel. For example, Isaiah 26:19 says, “But your dead will live; their bodies will rise. You who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for joy. Your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.” The reader can interpret that the point of that massage is to highlight death in a positive light rather than something to fear and embody darkness as it is represent in the Old