A Guide for the Church

What is the worth of the Old Testament to contemporary Christianity?

Is Christianity weighted down with its association with the Old Testament?

Would the Church be better off if it disregarded the Old Testament?

Paul instructs that ALL Scripture is worth our serious

consideration.

Creation (Genesis 1-2)

The Fall (Genesis 3)

Nature of God (Isa. 40)

Substitutionary atonement (Is. 52: 13-53:12)

New heaven and earth (Isa. 65-66)

Second coming (Zech. 14)

The Rebuke of Jesus on the

road to Emmaus

(Luke 24:25-27 )

77% of all Scripture is in the Old Testament

Hebrews 3:17-4:2

Romans 1:1-2

Attacks by New Testament hereticsInterpretive strategies like allegory in

early Church neutralized the Old Testament

The assumption of typologyThe Enlightenment that focused on how it

was composed rather than what it said.Current interpretive frameworks that

focus on meaning humans place on the text rather than divine revelation

A rabbi speaks