Dear pops,
The reason that there is an Old Testament and a New Testament is because the New Testament is the NEW way that God would forgive sins. By sending His own Son, which begins as a baby being born of the virgin Mary, who had known no man, but was still pregnant with the Lord's Baby Jesus. It was Jesus who taught us that the New Testament replaced the Old Testament as the New Covenant between God and man. The Old Testament referred to the Old Covenant. Jesus taught in parables so that the 'wise' men of the time could not understand what He spoke of. He wanted it instead to be given to innocent, humble men, who would understand what He said in those parables after He was gone from them.
Just like a painting becomes more valuable after the death of it's artist, so did the parables become more valuable after Jesus died. The disciples were able to reflect back at which parable Jesus spoke and realize what He meant by each one. The first book of the New Testament was Matthew, and it was Matthew who wrote the book, recalling by the Holy Spirit, all that the Lord had taught him as a disciple. He found the right words because the Holy Ghost caused him to recall them and record them for generations to come. God is able to speak through to Matthew about how it was that Jesus was born and raised. The same with Mark, Luke and John. Their books are similar because they corroborate what actually happened to each of them, and that all four of them record the same thing, giving us a reliable story about what actually happened to them.
I don't know how to explain this any better to you right now. The apostle Paul remembered word for word what Jesus spoke to him when He appeared to Paul on his way to Damascus. Paul was a murderer, but he did it only after orders he received to do those murders by Roman rulers. Okay, I'm going to have to hope this does it for you. The New Testament is the way in which God can reconcile Himself again to His people, the children of God. That's us.
Praise God!!
Michael
The reason that there is an Old Testament and a New Testament is because the New Testament is the NEW way that God would forgive sins. By sending His own Son, which begins as a baby being born of the virgin Mary, who had known no man, but was still pregnant with the Lord's Baby Jesus. It was Jesus who taught us that the New Testament replaced the Old Testament as the New Covenant between God and man. The Old Testament referred to the Old Covenant. Jesus taught in parables so that the 'wise' men of the time could not understand what He spoke of. He wanted it instead to be given to innocent, humble men, who would understand what He said in those parables after He was gone from them.
Just like a painting becomes more valuable after the death of it's artist, so did the parables become more valuable after Jesus died. The disciples were able to reflect back at which parable Jesus spoke and realize what He meant by each one. The first book of the New Testament was Matthew, and it was Matthew who wrote the book, recalling by the Holy Spirit, all that the Lord had taught him as a disciple. He found the right words because the Holy Ghost caused him to recall them and record them for generations to come. God is able to speak through to Matthew about how it was that Jesus was born and raised. The same with Mark, Luke and John. Their books are similar because they corroborate what actually happened to each of them, and that all four of them record the same thing, giving us a reliable story about what actually happened to them.
I don't know how to explain this any better to you right now. The apostle Paul remembered word for word what Jesus spoke to him when He appeared to Paul on his way to Damascus. Paul was a murderer, but he did it only after orders he received to do those murders by Roman rulers. Okay, I'm going to have to hope this does it for you. The New Testament is the way in which God can reconcile Himself again to His people, the children of God. That's us.
Praise God!!
Michael
