Does testament mean an agreement

Answer 1

# Something that serves as tangible proof or evidence: The spacious plan of the city is a testament to the foresight of its founders. # A statement of belief; a credo: my political testament. # Law. A written document providing for the disposition of a person's property after death; a will. # Testament Bible. Either of the two main divisions of the Bible. # Archaic. A covenant between humans and God. Taken from Answers.com As far as Christianity is concerned, the most important meaning is #5 - a Covenant with God. It is also important to note that the "New Testament" (I will write my laws into their hearts and put them in their minds and they shall be my people and I shall be their God and they shall NOT teach every man his brother and every man his neighbor saying know the Lord, for ALL shall know me from the least to the greatest... for ye have an unction from the Holy One and ye know all things... and Christ shall reign over the house of Israel for a thousand years) is NOT in effect during Mathew, Mark, Luke, John, and the first 13 chapters of Acts. These are Old Testament books. Old Testament Law and the keeping of it was still being taught in M,M,L,& J by Christ and afterwards by the Apostles in the first part of Acts. The period we live in now is called the "Dispensation of the Grace of God" and was committed to the Apostle Paul. It is not Old or New Testament. It is a "mystery hid in God from the foundation of the world" according to Paul and it is a free gift. We don't have to do a thing but believe on Christ to get salvation and it doesn't matter who you are either. That is something unique to Paul's Epistles - Romans through Philemon. PAUL is our designated by God leader now - not the Apostles or even Christ himself. We are commanded to follow Christ by following Paul, his chosen Apostle at this time. The Old Testament, (keeping the written Law for God's favor) which was "to none but unto the Jew only" was phased out in Acts and the Dispensation of the Grace of God was phased in. The New Testament will not happen until Christ returns to rapture us out and claim his throne to reign over the house of Israel for a thousand years - Hebrews through Revelation. When the New Testament does get here there will be no need for a written Law and there will be no excuses. Everyone will know it by "unction" and keep it instinctively - unlike the Old Testament when people had to study it and live up to it in spite of human limitations. No one ever did it either so God let them give blood sacrifices instead of die themselves for their own transgressions.

Answer 2

Covenant.

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Fully agree with the first answer, but there is also another meaning which is will as in legal will of final will and testament as explained by the author of Hebrews: "And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood." - Hebrews 9:15

Answer 3

In the New Testament, the Greek word translated "testament" is diatheke, which means, "(1) a disposition or arrangement of any sort which one wishes to be valid, as in a will; (2) a compact, a covenant."

Answer 4

The Hebrew word "berith" (Greek: di‧a‧the′kes), which is sometimes translated 'testament', means "covenant' (an agreement between two or more persons; a contract)

Answer 5

testament comes from the same word as testimony. The old and new testaments are testimony's to Jesus.

Answer 6

a story(e.g The Bible)

Answer 7

yes