Come on. The Old Testament is NOT a Christian document. Period.
The Old and New Testaments were put together centuries after Christ (under an agenda to deceive Christians.)
Of course the Old Testament is NOT a Christian document. As you know, Iâm very sure, the term âChristianâ comes after the Old Testament. The New Testament is definitely Christian. Where does Jesus, in any verse in the New Testament, directly rebuke Yahweh?
By the way⊠I donât consider Yahweh to be Godâs name. God never revealed his name to anyone, other than âI Amâ. Godâs name is unknown to anyone on this world. Any names people assign to God is just names people have chosen to call him for whatever reasons. Maybe Iâm wrong on that, but I donât recall reading antything (in the Bible) that disputes it⊠or gives Godâs actual name according to God.
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The Old and New Testaments were put together centuries after Christ (under an agenda to deceive Christians.)
And you know this to be true because???
Jesus however was predicted in the book of Daniel and Isaiah. The Old Testament were descendants of Abraham, that is why it is also referred to âthe book of Abraham.â Maybe I am mistaken about this, but this is off of the top of my head as I am writing this.
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That is something Christopher Hitchens would say, who was a self avowed atheist.
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By putting together the Old and New Testaments, you can fool people into believing as if Christianity came from Judaism.
I took Hebrew but there is no verb âto beâ that exactly corresponds to âYahwehâ which is written with four Hebrew letters.
If you take the first two letters (yod and he), it means nothing. If you take the last two letters (wow and he), it means nothing.
But if you take the first letter (yod), then the second (or fourth) letter (âheâ), then the first letter again and the second (or fourth) letter gain, and you pronounce it as âihyeh,â you can mean to say âit will be.â But itâs a long shot.
I think Christians know better. We know that the Old Testament is pretty much all Judaism⊠thatâs what they were in that time⊠Jews.
Chritianity came from the teaching and resurection of Jesus⊠and the deciples of Jesus spreading the teachings of Christ to the Gentiles. Iâm not sure what youâre trying to prove here?
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Iâm not trying to prove anything⊠just to reaffirm.
For a long time I felt that âGod of Judaismâ and âGod of Christianityâ are not the same.
And yet many Christian theologians and church leaders claim Yahweh is the God for Christians. How would they react if you ask them if Allah then is the God for Christians as well? (After all, they accept that monotheism means belief in one God and that the three religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam are monotheistic.)
As for Judaism, it is based on the Talmud and not on the Old Testament. As we discussed before, the Talmud is a compilation of the Pharisee oral teachings which could no longer be memorized.
The God of the Old Testament is certainly the God of Christianity. The New Testament affirms that the God reveald through Jesus Christ is the same God of the Old Testament.
Iâm still confused about what youâre getting at. The religions you mentioned believe in One God, also. Couldnât it be feasable that The One God is the same across all those religions and people see Him a little differently than Christians see him?
No.
Jesus says âour father which art in Heavenâ and never says Yahweh.
Any deity or God, monotheism or otherwise, can turn into Satan / Lucifer, if the thoughts and the behaviors of the belivers are evil.
Iâm struggling with the question myself. At present, I like to use the Hindu / Buddhist concept of âmanifestation.â (A high deity appears to various peoples in the form fit for their culture, tradition, sensitivity and perhaps intellect).
The Native Americans use the term âthe Great Spiritâ to express the ultimate high deity, given their cultural and linguistic diversity. Despite the differences, whatâs good and evil is the same across the board.
There are bad shamans who use their evil power to cause evil, but such people exist around the world; some more powerful and thus dangerous, some others harmless. What matters is what you harbor in your heart.
There are sacred animals in shamanism, usually the eagle because it has wings and flies; thus it is closer to heaven. Eagles and other animals are also messengers of the Great Spirit, akin to the Christian concept of angels.
I do not condone hunting / fishing for pleasure.