New Testament

between Matthew and John. Despite that difference both Matthew and John are narratives of Jesus the Messiah’s life on earth. In order to be able to best understand who Jesus is we must first recognize and understand the many parallels between the old testament and the Gospels as well as between Matthew…

The Old Testament makes promises and the New Testament fulfills the promises. For example, Isaiah promises a Messiah and the New Testament fulfills the promise in Jesus Christ. The Old Testament also promises that Jesus will be born of a virgin, which is fulfilled in the New Testament (Encountering the New Testament, Chapter 1, pp. 20-22). Both testaments point to an afterlife where those who know God will rest in Heaven, but those…

What is the Old Testament and New Testament? What message do they contain? What is the relationship between the two testaments? The Old Testament is a series of Books that were written by men under the influence of the Holy Spirit and have God as the author. The Old Testament contains the plan of salvation that God has to His people. It additionally has covenants between God and chosen men of Israel. The Old Testament contains the way God fist manifested Himself to…

(Kӧstenberger & Kruger, p. 16). The reliance on personal experience has caused traditional thought to be challenged. An overlying paradigm of diversity (p. 18) has compelled “true” orthodoxy to be challenged, and as a result, heresy is seen as the “new orthodoxy” (p. 16,). In The Heresy of Orthodoxy, Kӧstenberger and Kruger (K2) provide a fair examination of the Bauer thesis which lays its foundation on the major urban centers of the first and early second centuries. The Bauer thesis, as…

Interviewing Bart Ehrman, about his new book who was about three people who were probably the most important people of Jesus followers in history and legend. Simon Peter, the apostle Paul, and Mary Magdalene. The Book draws in the New Testament and the notic Gospel. Mary Magdalene as the media star and much interest who they now least about. Peter prominent figure in gospel. Paul we have his writings so we know what he thought. Mary Magdalen rarely shows up in the New Testament, name only…

Among Christians, there are debates on many various theologies. Two of the more popular theologies which are debated are New Covenant Theology and dispensationalism. Both sides hold dear to their beliefs and stress very opposite opinions. While dispensationalists hold to the belief that “Israel” always means a literal, physical descendants of Jacob Covenant Theologians believe that “Israel” can mean either literal, physical descendants of Jacob or figurative, spiritual Israel. An example in…

Jesus was announced as the Messiah, there were so many different views of what he was to accomplish within the culture. Many expect a conquering king, a deliverer from the Roman empire but Jesus actions did not line up with their views. To help the new Christian believer, the writers of Luke and Matthew offer their perspective of what the Messiah and the Kingdom of God represented. In Luke 1:46-55, the evangelist emphasizes the song of Mary, the Magnificat, to detail the mind of Mary, the mother…

bring a new light to the different aspects of Christ with each writer’s take by emphasizing different parts and characteristics of Christ for each writer’s specific audience. An author’s writing is greatly influenced by the author’s personality, and the style of writing the Gospels is unique because each Gospel is written by a different writer. Matthew’s Gospel written by Matthew displays his view of Christ and how he shows it to his audience which in this case is, the Jews(C. Fuest, New…

book “Knowing Jesus through the old Testaments” introduces the Jesus and the Old Testament of the Promise of God fulfilling purpose. As well I understand, the New Testament authors clearly statement is that Jesus is the fulfillment of the Old Testament of the Promise. One of the things, that understanding in the first part of the book explains about the fulfillment of Jesus Christ (wright 56). “By repeated use of the fulfilment phrase, Matthew The New Testament authors clearly saw Jesus as the…

understanding of who God is and what are the emotions of God in the face of injustice. Justice as it relates to New and Old Testament is quite different and controversial when closely studied. In Old Testament justice is seen as if, wrong is done to you in order to get justice you the victim have to get even and do likewise to the perpetrator what was done to you, on the other hand, in the New Testament justice is if one does wrong to you, you as an individual should be able to either forgive…