What is the difference between the new and old testament?

Answer 1

The Old Testament is a selection of books taken from the Jewish holy writings, the Tanakh, by the early Christian church leaders, who were familiar with the Tanakh. They assembled those selections for use with the New Testament as being the parts of the Jewish tradition that were thought to be relevant to the times around 200-300 AD.

The new Testament is the purely Christian writings describing the life of Jesus and including writings attributed to the Apostles on how a Christian and a Christian community, should behave.

Christians consider the Old Testament as a record of God's dealings with His chosen people, the Israelites, and the promise He made to them to bless the world through them. The New Testament records what Christians believe is the fulfilment of that promise, the birth of Christ, His life and the building of His church. Those of Jewish faith regard the Old Testament a selected portion of their Scripture. Those of Christian faith see both the Old and New Testaments as Scripture.

Testament means "covenant." Christian Bibles consist of the Old Testament and the New Testament.

Christians believe the fulfilment of the law was accomplished by Christ's death and resurrection. Believers consider themselves not under the Old Testament law, but that by grace with the help of the Holy Spirit they follow the Law of Christ (Galatians 6:2) which is "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." (Matthew 22:37-40)

Other Notes

Some believe Testament means "truth telling" or something that serves as written truth and that it is not a synonym for "covenant".

The New Testament is an account of the birth, the active ministry, and death of Jesus Christ and the works and writings of his apostles after his death.

The Old Testament is a collection of 39 books of history, poetry, advice and prophecy, and is considered sacred by Jews and Christians alike. The New Testament is 27 books, containing four accounts of Jesus life and teachings, an account of the early church's activities, and numerous letters from church leaders to individual congregations, containing teachings and advice. It finishes with a single book of prophecy regarding the end of the world as we know it, and the coming of God's eternal Kingdom. It is considered sacred to Christians alone..

Answer 2

Answer 1

The Old Testament was before Jesus and the New Testament was after Jesus and about his childhood.

Answer 2

1. The new testament is in ad I think and the old testament is in bc (before Christ )

2.the new testament is about Jesus and his followers the son of god and the old one is about lots of different people (Jews only believe in the old testament but Christians Protestants and Catholics believe in both).

Answer 3

The primary difference between the Old and New Testaments are the relationships that they set up between God and Man. The Old Testament is primarily concerned with the relationship between King and Subject where God informs and the People do. (Exodus 24:3 explicitly says, 3 When Moses went and told the people all the Lord's words and laws, they responded with one voice, "Everything the Lord has said we will do.") The New Testament establishes a covenant of salvation that physically binds God and Man. (This is made explicit in Mark 14:22-24 where it says 22 While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take it; this is my body." 23 Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it. 24 "This is my blood of the[c] covenant, which is poured out for many," he said to them.)

Quotations taken from the NIV.

Answer 3

The Old Testament is mainly the history of the nation of Israel. It does contain prophecies of the coming Messiah.

The New Testament is the story of the Messiah, Jesus Christ, after He was born.

Answer 4

Essentially, the old testament is the history, prophesy, and laws given by God to his chosen people by which they lived until such time that those prophesies came to fruition through the arrival of Jesus Christ. The new testament chronicles the life, ministry, death and ressurection of Jesus as well as apostolic letters written for the development of the early church.

Answer 5

the old testament was first written in greek and the new testament in Hebrew

Answer 6

Basically the Old Testement is before Jesus and the New Testement is on Jesus's life and etc.

Answer 7

The best answer is, read the book of Hebrews in the New Testament. It explains all of that, and gives the comparisons. Give it a read, it probably wont take you but an hour tops to read.