Old Testament

In the Old Testament, a theme that is widely reflected between people and God is obedience. The relationships found throughout Old Testament were based on people’s obedience towards God’s instruction; probably making it one of the most important relational aspect. According to International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, obedience is defined as, “the supreme test of faith in God and reverence for him” (Obedience). God uses many prominent people in the Old Testament who obey and listen to what he…

Forbidden Rituals The Old Testament provided certain instructions with regards to death and burial rituals which would suggest the start of Israelite tradition. The Old Testament set out prompt burial as norm for Israel (Deut 21:22-23) unless a Sabbath or feast day was involved. Moreover, contact with the dead rendered a person ceremonially unclean and therefore a period of ritual cleansing was required immediately after the burial. The cultural practices of mourning, lamenting and tearing of…

For this assignment, I have been studying the main purpose of the church, the new testament and modern day church, the church’s relationship to the kingdom, and the roles the church plays in present…

polygamy. Solomon was one of the many Old Testaments characters having had more than one wife, nevertheless, the addition of a third person does not fit God’s original model of marriage. It is course true that it was a worldly custom, in patriarchal times, and in the days of the Kingdom of Israel, for kings and wealthy men to take plural wives. A harem was one of the symbols of royalty. But God prohibited polygamy for the kings of Israel. God’s law in the Old Testament, Deuteronomy 17:14, 17…

I used to not read the old testament, and would consider the bible as valuable and I used to also believe in all its originality, but the Old Testament was a bit painful to read in my opinion, and that only the importance of the bible was only going to be found in the New Testament. Now I know that the Old Testament can be, in moments, the most difficult to comprehend than the New Testament, but at the same time there are some things that are extremely important in there. I know for the most…

To best discuss salvation history throughout the Old Testament, it is essential that one first knows exactly what salvation history is: the order of occurrences throughout human existence where God reveals himself along with His saving actions. This definition may look simple, but it is a lot more complicated than one may think. When looking at the variety of different stories that the Old Testament is composed of, like the call and covenant made with Abraham, the purpose of election, the…

The Bible is the sacred book of the Christian faith. It contains 66 Books. 39 in the Old Testament & 27 in the New Testament. The first five Old Testament books are known as the books of the Law, or the Pentateuch or the Torah. The remainder of the Old Testament books is divided by the Jews into categories of prophets and writings. However, Christians organize it differently into sections of historical books, wisdom books, and books of prophecy. The Bible is inspired by the word of god. The…

The grace of God is evidenced through the prophetic proclamation of the Old Testament prophets, who repeatedly spoke of the coming of Christ. Therefore, the fullness of time spoken of in Galatians 4:4 harmonizes with the proclamations as divinely inspired by the Spirit of God. Providentially, man had proven that he was unable to…

in through the Old Testament is typology, symbolism, Old Testament offices, or prophecy. Jesus is found in Zechariah through typology mainly, as Zechariah talks of his many visions. Not only is Jesus seen in the book of Zechariah, but he is fulfilled in the New Testament in multiple books of the Bible. The Old Testament is a crucial part of the Bible to see the full picture. Without the Old Testament, the New Testament would be very difficult to understand as the Old Testament is an…

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 that person and…