Which do you like better, the new testament or the old, and why??
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I cannot choose between the two.  If you had a drink of pure water, which would you prefer, the hydrogen or the oxygen?  Or if you took a breath of fresh, clean air, would you choose the nitrogen over the carbon dioxide?\n\nThese two halves make an inseparable whole, that which is called the Word of God.  From beginning to end, it reveals God and God's love to us.  It shows us His justice, grace, mercy, and patience, with me and with a fallen world that has all but rejected Him.  It is the ultimate and complete love story, signed in blood at the cross of Calvary.  \n\nHow could I place any part of it above the rest?
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Is been revised too many times to please the founding fathers of the catholic church. I think the Gospels ancient writtings that are being discovered recently will shed much information missing from the new testament.
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In an odd way, sweet_shy is right.  Sure, there are translation errors and parts of it may have been added or deleted, but it's still God's work.  It was divinely inspired; the only part that really matters is the message, and do you really think that he would let his message be corrupted?  The rest is just fluff to make it readable.  Now having read the New Testament, I find that what I read is entirely in line with my knowledge of God.  I think the message comes through just fine and there are no errors in it despite whatever stages the actual text has gone through.
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Was the Old Testament originally written in Hebrew?\n----YES\n\nWas the New Testament originally written in Greek?\n--------YES, although Christians claim there was, originally, a Hebrew version. The fact that it did not survive shows that the Greek version was more important to the early Christians than the Hebrew, indicating the degree to which they were assimilated into Greek religion and Culture.\n\nHow difficult are these languages to learn?\n-------Hebrew is easy, i cannot speak for Greek. I teach people to read (vocalize) the Hebrew text, not to translate, just to pronounce, in just 3 hours.\n\nHow beneficial would it be for me to learn them?\n------if you dont want to rely on someone else's translations, it is vital that you learn them!\n\nAnd where would I get a copy of the Bible in both English and Greek/Hebrew\n--------I recommend the Koren Publishing Company's translation. The Koren Publishing Company is in Jerusalem, so, unfortunately, they called their translation The Jerusalem Bible, which, in the U.S., is the name of a Catholic translation, and they are not the same thing. Most Barnes and Nobles have the Koren translation, which has the Hebrew on the left and the English on the right. Unfortunately the English still sounds like something from King James, but at least the translation tried to be literal. Of course, this is only the Hebrew Scriptures, and a Greek/English, i know nothing about.\n\nI would urge you NOT to get what is called an Interlinnear translation. All they do is take their copyrighted translation and match those individual words to the Hebrew that they want translated that way, regardless of whether or not it means what their copyrighted translation says.
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In large part you're correct as I see it,the new testament is essentially that which came after the birth of Jesus although there are basic elements of the Old Testament which will still exist in some manner within the New Testament. The Old Testament if you really wanted to get down to it is essentially the Torah with changes,or at least the basic story is the same. Except that the Christians had a wholly different view of Hell and of Lucifer who if I understand correctly the Jews did not view as Gods enemy so much as Gods way of testing us to make us worthy.
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My favorite version is NIV because it's sooooo much easy to understand!!!\n\nGod Bless!!!
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Somehow the Christian religions had successfully diverted the attention to the new Testament and making the Old Testament somewhat obsolete. This is really what the deceiver wanted to happen. At anyrate, they cannot totally abandon the Old because they are afraid they may lose some of the claims why Jesus has to come down and save mankind for their sins. However, at the same time they are also afraid that should people be left to read the Old Testament from the very start completely without their guidance, people might find out that Jesus' death was not really needed to save man from their original sins. Specially if they Found out that God have already declared who shall be responsible for the sins of man. Deuteronomy 24:16; Ezekiel 18: 3-26 all of the verses written there speaks of God's declaration that those who sins shall suffer the consequence of his own sin and no one else will be held answerable for that. So how can God send someone to take the responsibility to  save other mans' foolishness and much more to be so stupid to send His own Son (or Himself as a Son) for the sins of his own creation. Actually, I found many active Christians in my vicinity very ignorant of the Old teachings and they claimed they have only known the New Testament.
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I love the Bible. It amazes how it was written so-o-o long ago and yet is applicable  to today's modern times...it goes to show you that the feelings of the human heart surpasses the tests of time...and yes, i get different messages--and with the different messages--comes different meaning...though my emotions change, the words in the Bible remain the same.....so my interpretation will change depending on what state-of-mind or situation I am in.....but, no matter what, it always comes back to humility,charity, love and patience..........god bless you!!!
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I agree that it is out of date, but I don't think that you can just go and arbitrarily change the content.  And by whose standards would it change?\n\nI think that there are many misinterpretations of the bible over the centuries.\n\nI am going to be ordering one that is supposed to be a direct translation from the orginal Aramaic New Testament to see what the difference is.  It is called The Modern New Testament : Translated from the Original Aramaic Sources by G. Lamsa.\n\nHaving said that, I also think that much of the bible directly speaks to that generation's society and political culture and therefore, not a lot of it has to do with how things are in this day and age, although I feel that Jesus taught us timeless lessons of love and acceptance and faith.  \n\nBut I don't believe that Jesus was the only master and that timeless lessons were taught by Mohammed and Buddha and many other masters as well.
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People might convert to Christianity by seeing how the prophecies of the Old Testament are fulfilled in the New Testament, but that requires a lot more education that most people care for.  Still, I can tell you that the OT changed my view of Christianity.  Before reading it, I always saw the religion as very dichotimized, with the OT God light years away from the NT God.  Having read it, I now realize that's not true.  There's a lot more of a loving God in the OT than people usually give credit for.  Likewise, the NT God is frequently harsher than Christians would care to admit.  It's given me a much more unified, clearer perspective.
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The New Testament is meant to be the resolution of the Old Testament.  The Jews had the paradigm of fear.  Jesus, especially in the story of the Resurrection, is showing there is nothing to fear, not even death.
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The Bible is the inerrant, infallible, inspired Word of God.  Everything in it is true.  People didn't create the New Testament, but holy men wrote as they were led by the Holy Spirit.
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Old Testament\nHow do we know the Bible has been kept in tact for over 2,000 years of copying? Before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, our earliest Hebrew copy of the Old Testament was the Masoretic text, dating around 800 A.D. The Dead Sea Scrolls date to the time of Jesus and were copied by the Qumran community, a Jewish sect living around the Dead Sea. We also have the Septuagint which is a Greek translation of the Old Testament dating in the second century B.C. When we compare these texts which have an 800-1000 years gap between them we are amazed that 95% of the texts are identical with only minor variations and a few discrepancies.\n\nNew Testament\nIn considering the New Testament we have tens of thousands of manuscripts of the New Testament in part or in whole, dating from the second century A.D. to the late fifteenth century, when the printing press was invented. These manuscripts have been found in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Greece, and Italy, making collusion unlikely. The oldest manuscript, the John Rylands manuscript, has been dated to 125 A.D. and was found in Egypt, some distance from where the New Testament was originally composed in Asia Minor). Many early Christian papyri, discovered in 1935, have been dated to 150 A.D., and include the four gospels. The Papyrus Bodmer II, discovered in 1956, has been dated to 200 A.D., and contains 14 chapters and portions of the last seven chapters of the gospel of John. The Chester Beatty biblical papyri, discovered in 1931, has been dated to 200-250 A.D. and contains the Gospels, Acts, Paul's Epistles, and Revelation. The number of manuscripts is extensive compared to other ancient historical writings, such as Caesar's "Gallic Wars" (10 Greek manuscripts, the earliest 950 years after the original), the "Annals" of Tacitus (2 manuscripts, the earliest 950 years after the original), Livy (20 manuscripts, the earliest 350 years after the original), and Plato (7 manuscripts).\n\n\nThousands of early Christian writings and lexionaries (first and second century) cite verses from the New Testament. In fact, it is nearly possible to put together the entire New Testament just from early Christian writings. For example, the Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians (dated 95 A.D.) cites verses from the Gospels, Acts, Romans, 1 Corinthians, Ephesians, Titus, Hebrews, and 1 Peter. The letters of Ignatius (dated 115 A.D.) were written to several churches in Asia Minor and cites verses from Matthew, John, Romans, 1 & 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, 1 & 2 Timothy and Titus. These letters indicate that the entire New Testament was written in the first century A.D. In addition, there is internal evidence for a first century date for the writing of the New Testament. The book of Acts ends abruptly with Paul in prison, awaiting trial (Acts 28:30-31 (1)). It is likely that Luke wrote Acts during this time, before Paul finally appeared before Nero. This would be about 62-63 A.D., meaning that Acts and Luke were written within thirty years of ministry and death of Jesus. Another internal evidence is that there is no mention of the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. Although Matthew, Mark and Luke record Jesus' prophecy that the temple and city would be destroyed within that generation (Matthew 24:1-2 (2),Mark 13:1-2 (3), Luke 21:5-9,20-24,32(4)), no New Testament book refers to this event as having happened. If they had been written after 70 A.D., it is likely that letters written after 70 A.D. would have mentioned the fulfillment of Jesus' prophecy. As stated by Nelson Glueck, former president of the Jewish Theological Seminary in the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, and renowned Jewish archaeologist, "In my opinion, every book of the New Testament was written between the forties and eighties of the first century A.D."\n\nWith all of the massive manuscript evidence you would think there would be massive discrepancies
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The entire Bible, old and new testament should be used as truth.  All scripture is inspired by God.  Extrabiblical accounts should only be used cautiously if at all.
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Good Thor!  \n\nIs it really more sensible to come up with alien teenager speculations than it is to simply presume that the New Testament is mostly a work of fiction!?
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You have to consider them as two different books, some religions believe one over the other. (Jewish people don't believe in the New Testament,only the Old for ex.) So choose the one you think makes more sense and run with it.
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The bible(new testament) was written 30-60 years after Jesus died.  The authors never met Jesus, did not know him, and wrote down stories they had HEARD about him.\nJust like the game "telephone", stories become greatly exaggerated.