When you read the Bible, do you go by the Old Testament or........

United States
February 20, 2010 10:29pm CST
When you decide to read the Bible and get comfortable, do you look at the Old Testament as something not important because of the New Testament, or do you feel the Old Testament is just as valuable as the New?
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@ckyera (17332)
• Philippines
21 Feb 10
hello chrystaltears, i think both are equally important, for they are interrelated to each other. i think a bible is not a bible when one is missing. actually, i also like reading the old testament specially the provers, coz from there we can really learn many things about life and how we should live our life and its really inspirational...
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@ckyera (17332)
• Philippines
22 Feb 10
exactly! actually the old testament will not be there for no reasons at all. the old testament talks about the laws of God, and the prophecies about Christ, while in the new testament it already shows the fulfillment of those prophecies... and the new testament mostly speaks about the Christ, his ministry & evangelization, as well as it talks about the revelation... the bible is indeed unique, a book of truth, and was inspired by God.
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@ckyera (17332)
• Philippines
4 Mar 10
thanks for the br...
• United States
22 Feb 10
I agree. I've heard people say they don't tithe, for example because it's not in the new testament, however it is more than once. But I like both, because my goodness it's in story book form and you just go on to what happened next and besides that I love when the Old Testaments speaks of the coming of Christ and other things that are coming. Like in the book of Daniel.
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@magtibaygom (4858)
• Philippines
28 Feb 10
Yes, I believe, the Old Testament is just as valuable as the New. Some people makes mistake of disregarding the Old especially the Ten Commandments or the Moral Law written in the book of Exodus. Jesus said, I came not to destroy the Law, but to fulfill it. :)
• United States
25 Sep 11
That is what He said for sure and if we fulfill the law of the new testament, we are fulfilling all of the laws of the old testament. But we REALLY have to be fulfilling the new law or you won't stick to the 10 laws that you are speaking of. Without love, you will not be able to fulfill them. If you break any of the laws it means you are not loving the ones you are doing these things to.
@gewcew23 (8007)
• United States
21 Feb 10
Let us hope that the Old Testament is not valuable as the New Testament. The Old Testament is full of horrible rules like Deuteronomy Chapter 22:28-29 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found. Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days. Boy nothing sound like a great deal than having to marry the man who rapped you. You also got to love the punishment, 50 shekels. Also the Old Testament is full of none sense like Deuteronomy 23:1 He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord. So under the Laws of Moses if your male private parts have been crushed or cut off then you cannot go to church. Also from the same chapter we learn what kind of nationality is allowed to go to church. Let us all hope that God goes by the New Testament and not the Old Testament.
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• United States
21 Feb 10
Sounds like you have spent alot of time in the bible. What I enjoyed doing when reading the bible is after I finished the Old Testament, I started going back to whatever verse was referenced to from the New Testament. That made so many things so much clearer. I learned alot that way.
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@BinaryKat (735)
• United States
22 Feb 10
As I learned in church, the Old testament is for our learning to what happened back then and the New Testament is the gospel. You can learn some valuable lessons in the stories of both testaments. Right now in Sunday School, we are learning about Judges. The lessons are on Samson right now and how God worked through him.
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• United States
25 Feb 10
I bet you're enjoying that I love the story of Samson. Sad but great story. Also, I enjoyed Judges about the 5th time around when I set my mind to finding it interesting.
• United States
22 Feb 10
neither the old nor the new testaments are more important than the other they both in the same book there is valuable information in BOTH testaments
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• United States
25 Feb 10
Yes, wonttakelong. There is valuable information in both. It just depends what area you are needing help in with life and the trials we go thru.
• India
27 Feb 10
I read the holy Bible from Genesis to Revelation. We should read both the old testament and New testament. We have so many advices in old testament also. So we should regularly the whole bible.
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• United States
25 Sep 11
That is true, because it is amazing what you can get out of the bible when you go through the references in the new testament and go back to the referenced scriptures in the old testament. It just makes everything line up to where it just makes so much more sense that way, and you learn how everything fits together. I love doing it that way. It makes it very enjoyable to read when you go about it in this way.
@eileenleyva (27567)
• Philippines
22 Feb 10
The old testament is quite important because the books relate to us the history of salvation. The individual stories are really spectacular and I have come to list some favorites... like Ruth for loyalty and love story, or David and Jonathan for friendship and brotherhood. Books like Numbers and Chronicles could be sleepers but they also provide accounting and journals, ha ha. Try reading from the very beginning. Read slowly and read only with pleasure. When you are tired, stop. Resume when you are relaxed. Happy reading!
• United States
25 Feb 10
Yes, it's super interesting to read on further in Old Testament and then remember that it all goes back to when Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt.
@zkapfo123 (319)
• India
21 Feb 10
Hi chrystaltears, i read the new testament more often, but i do read the old testament sometimes. I try to make it a habit to read the bible, even 2-3 verses with my children every night before going to bed, but these days i don't know how? but we've stopped this habit, but i hope to revive it again.
• United States
21 Feb 10
That happens to me sometimes. and the last year or so, I barely have read it, and I can tell a big difference in my life for the bad, and I know that's the reason.