The Testament Of The Bible

The Old Testament is the largest part of the bible nestled behind the leather binding in the front of the book. Unlike most books, told from one-person or even two this is comprised of multiple, some stories even having two different versions in another point of view; over time it has become a large collection of ancient texts written and re-written by different authors and editors over the many years. The stories show the ancient Israelites, they show the laws, and rituals, which make up their religion and the small embers, which will one day, turn to a flame that is Christianity. The Jewish people view these stories as collected in what they call the Torah, is the collection for what makes up their history and the promise that God gave to them, as well as their laws and what they worship today. For the Christians the Old Testament is still seen as sacred, but most place a stronger importance to the New Testament.

The biblical narrative derived for this composition origins from the gospel writings according to St. Luke in “The Holy Bible.” Within his writings, Luke recounts the Passover, Christ’s warning of the betrayal, and the night of the betrayal. On the night of the betrayal, he recounts Christ waking the sleeping disciples, Judas amongst them, explaining him rising to bestow a kiss onto Christ. St. Luke states: “And while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near to Jesus to kiss him” (Luke 21:47). Giotto’s fresco directly becomes influenced from this scene, and becomes the point of action he creates within his biblical narrative fresco. His composition marks the beginning of the chaos that clouds Christ’s arrest; illustrating the powerful confrontation Christ and Judas are compelled into. While Christ is depicted unwavering in his pose and expression, Judas is rendered in a furious facial expression and stance. His face is inflated more so than Christ’s, illustrating the swelling of corruption beneath his physical features. He appears almost to gaze hatefully towards Christ, as his eyebrows become fused tightly together and appear to create a tension within his form. He pose is similar to an animalistic stance; he has one hand on Christ’s shoulder to draw him in nearer, while enclosing his long yellow cloak around his figure to envelop him within this grasp. By Judas’ expression and stance, Giotto depicts

Paul explained to the Ephesians that when the fullness of time came, God sent His Son into the world to make known His will for the salvation of humanity. (Ephesians 1: 9-10) However, according to Paul, that plan had extended from the foundation of the world. “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” (Ephesians 1: 4) And, it is mentioned in the very first book of the Bible.

With the completion of the Old Testament put a stop on the preaching and revelation of the prophets. Prophets were responsible for enlightening the Jews about the realities of life and resolved various issues that they had. The Jews were desperate to know the truth, and the teachings of the God and hence prophets aided these longings of theirs. Religious ritualism, social injustice, and idolatry were the three areas in which the prophets emphasized in their preaching and filled the hearts and minds of their believers with it. Prophets were enlightened and blessed beings that had much knowledge about the religious matters and their teachings are of still very significant and valid.

Christianity begins during the New Testament Gospels. God shows the love for mankind with Jesus’ unjustified crucifixion. A disagreement between Peter and Paul about the future to who should they preach the gospel, Peter’s commitment to preach only to Jews. Paul’s mission was to convert the Gentiles to the new Jewish religion which through consequences becomes Christianity. The Christian view of history centers in the reliability of the Bible (Noebel).

The New Testament is the word of God, documented through scrolls, or books, and communicated and shared for man to learn and study the life of Jesus Christ (Bethel, 2017). For Christians, the word of God is sacred and authoritative; this makes it similar to other world religions. This religious documentation is similar to other religions in that it documents history and is therefore, historical. For Christians, the New Testament is unlike other historical literature. The New Testament covers the life, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the son of God. Though the teachings, examples, and miracles revealed in the New Testament, Christians receive the information they need to model their life after the Savior, Jesus Christ. The

The names “Old Testament” and “New Testament” are inherently theological in nature. Because there is a difference distinctly built into giving them different notations, it implies that there are differences between each the Old Testament and the New Testament, whether it is subtle in nature or obvious in nature. To Christians, the difference means that the Old Testament contains dealings between God and the world and even some of the rules made are made irrelevant by the interactions of Christ Jesus with the world. One of the differences between the New Testament and the Old Testament is the way each of the Testaments describe God and God’s nature. The Old Testament describes an angry God, one who only created the world and was obsessed with laws and rules. The New Testament describes a loving God who redeemed the world. The different ways the Old Testament and New Testament describe God and his nature are very much influenced by their perspective of God. By the rules, actions, and laws God made, the early writers of the Old Testament made their judgements about God and wrote those perspectives into the books of the Old Testament. The writers of the Old Testament did the best they could with the information they had and got some things about God right, but also got things wrong. The writers of the New Testament and therefore, Christian believers understand God better.

The second part of the Christian Bible is the sacred books of the New Testament. It is the recordings of Jesus and his earliest followers’ lives and teachings. The New Testament only covers several decades unlike the Old Testament, which covers thousands of years. The earliest manuscript we have containing all the books of the New Testament comes from 300 A.D however it included books that are not in the Bible today (Schenck, 2010, p. 27). “The Council of Carthage in A.D. 397 gave the list official approval, accepting these twenty-seven writings as the New Testament” (Schenck, 2010, p. 28). The New Testament is not a single book written by one man, but, rather, twenty-seven books written in Greek by at least eight different inspired men of God from various places. For these books to even be considered part of the New Testament Scriptures, they had to have been verified that they were the inspired work of an apostle or a prophet.

There were eight named writers of the New Testament: Saints Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, Peter, James, and Jude. The New Testament was formalized within the early Christian community, the Church. The Church Fathers were important to the early Church, for they were the ones who had an important role in the process of the formation of the New Testament, as well as the interpretation of Scripture. Their objective was to choose those written books which were truly inspired by the Holy Spirit and best reflected the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, as understood within the Tradition of the Church.

In the time of Old, a people group devoted themselves to the Mosaic teachings and Abrahamic teachings: they worshiped the monotheistic God, Yahweh. Within the teachings of Yahweh, law and heritage structured the people group who became the nation of Israel. Primarily, the writings of the Old Testament were for the Israelites. These writings brought identity, heritage, and understanding to the people of Israel. Although the nation had monarchs such as kings, it was ultimately a theocracy: God sovereignly ruled Israel. Scripture reveals, in Jeremiah 32:38, that God desired to be Israel’s God and He desired that they would be His people. When the Old Testament concluded, the New Testament reveals an intermission discontinuity of an earthly theocracy. Namely, Israel would still be the nation God desires, but the fulfillment of Israel’s promises (e.g., The Third Temple, restoration of the land, and worldwide reign), God has put on hold. Thus, He discontinued the earthly theocracy. Nevertheless, He still has a spiritual theocracy in Christ. There is still a continuity of people being theocratic by recognizing that God is sovereign over their lives. God has interwoven the spiritual thread of theocracy within the New Testament entity, i.e., the church. Although God has continued theocratic principles (e.g., God is king, and serving His kingdom) in the presence of the church, the Bible is silent whether the church itself should be a governmental institute such as Israel was.

The Bible is a collection of stories and teachings made up of two parts, the Old Testament and the New Testament, as well as the Pentateuch or the first five books of the Bible. The Pentateuch and Old Testament follow the days of creation, the stories of Moses, and all that happened before Jesus was born. The New Testament follows the life, teachings, and death of Jesus. Before the Bible was written around 3000 years ago, it was told through narratives, poetry, and songs. Much like fairytales, which are a non-religious way of teaching kids to be safe, such as in Hansel and Gretel, making smart decisions, such as in Sleeping Beauty, or to not talk to strangers, such as in Little Red Riding Hood; the Bible is used to teach people as a whole, with the stories of how the world was created or the creation of The Ten Commandments. The characters in the Bible often mimic true human behaviors and this makes it more relatable for people, for example, Elijah being suicidal or Moses having to find his own faith and his own true self. This can be connected to something like Shakespeare, each of his characters, though quite dramatic, all have a tragic flaw that often aides in the failures of the character but each tragic flaw is extremely human. Many times the Bible or the Christian religion itself has been said to influence our moral compasses as we try to “walk in the light of Jesus” and it does influence us even if we are not aware of it, but there is always a science behind this,

In the Bible, there are many different kinds of ways to make sacrifice to God. Mostly, God just ask for animal sacrifice. God has a mercy image. It seems that human sacrifice are evil god’s requirements. However, people could also find out some records about human sacrifice in the Bible. In the book of Judges, Jephthah has made a vow to God that he would burn the first person come out of his house to meet him as an offering to God, he was going to make an human sacrifice for God. At last, he killed his daughter indeed. In Genesis, God asked for a human sacrifice, asked Abraham to burn his only son as an offering to God in order to test Abraham’s obedience. Fortunately, the angle of God stopped Abraham at last and kept his son from hurt, which implies that God just wanted to test Abraham, not a human sacrifice. As going through these plots in the Bible, how should people recognize the human sacrifice in the Book of the Old Testament? Is it just the test from God? Or God actually like human sacrifice?

The Bible is the (Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth) to all who believes and followers of Christ Jesus. The Bible is consisted of sixty-six books written by nearly forty authors. In the Old Testament there are thirty-nine books and twenty-seven in the New Testament. The New Testament is the second half of God’s truth and instructions for the believers. The canonization process for the New Testament is easier to trace, even though some questions cannot be fully answered. The Pauline Epistles were collected and considered to be in authoritative in the half of the second century. The four gospels is the gateway of valuable information about Christ Jesus and sets everything in motion for Paul letters to the churches.

The first 39 books of the larger work called the Bible, is called the Old Testament. The Bible itself is arguably the best selling and most read book of all time, yet it’s well known to be quite challenging to read through and understand. The Old Testament portion of the Bible, notably the most difficult portion of the Bible for most to study and follow, yields 39 books from multiple authors, and spans over 4000 years of crucial world and church history. If that were not enough to take on, the Old Testament comes our way through multiple styles of authorship and formats, including but not limited to, books of history, law, proverbs, ethics,

The Bible is made up of two main books, the Old and New Testament, which both consist of stories and the experiences of the apostles and the disciples. The Bible talks about every topic imaginable to man; but the topic of woman is still today, a very controversial one. Depending on whom you talk to, opinions will vary dramatically. “Are women seen as equal to man?” “Are women independent or dependent”, and “Are women only seen for their beauty and duties in the household?”. Throughout the Bible, women are spoken about quite a bit. In Genesis, man and woman are created, in Proverbs, the perfect wife is described, and in Corinthians, marriage roles are talked about. The Bible can be interpreted in many ways depending on someone’s opinion.