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... The Old and New Testament represent two sides of this argument. The Old gives the rigid structure of God’s word while the New Testament offers a more realistic approach to this life through the life of Jesus Christ. The New Testament, therefore, as brought to our attention in the Epistles, is superior to the Old through the necessity and superiority of Christ.
The Old Testament is written by a collection of authors and illustrates the life and stories of the ancient Israelites and Hebrew people. The Old Testament is said to be the stricter of the two parts of the bible as it contains the laws and rituals that comprise their religion. For Jewish people, the Old Testament is the only part worth looking at and studying. ... Christians interpret this Old Testament quite differently. They see the Old Testament as a sacred piece of work, but not nearly as important as the New Testament. ...
God’s law in the Old Testament is shown to be not nearly as important as faith in the New Testament. ... Since we sinned, the Old Testament, although a good starting point, is by no means the way to achieve salvation. ... He is both the priest and victim of the sacrifice and his sacrifice is done eternally so it only has to be done once, unlike the sacrifices given over and over again by the priests of the Old Testament. ... The Old Testament tells us how follow God’s law, but no one is able to do this. ...
In examining the Hebrews, we see that Paul has somewhat of a negative view towards the Old Testament. ... He tries to show them the superiority of the Christian religion to that of the Jewish religion and he illustrates this with many references to the inferiority of the Old Testament subjects. ... He says that he is the savior of the universe and the ultimate revelation of God, therefore, he is greater than the angels, the priests of the Old Testament, and Moses. He first compares Jesus to the prophets of the Old Testament. ...
Another argument uses Moses’ inadequacy compared to Jesus. ...
Paul then talks about the superiority of Christ’s teachings to the priests of the Old Testament. ...
In Chapter 8, Paul again brings up the superiority of the New Testament to the Old. He says Christ is superior to all those in the Old Testament, and therefore the New Testament is superior to the Old. ... This implied that that Old Testament was inadequate. This inadequateness was mainly caused by the sins of the people as the old covenant failed when this happened and Jesus had to come in to save us from these sins.
Approximate Word count = 2111
Approximate Pages = 8.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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