Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: sacg1198@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott Cattanach) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Why a New Testament? Message-ID: Date: 20 Jan 91 19:22:47 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 30 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu [usul@auc.UUCP (Ron McBay) asked where there needed to be a New Testament. Was the old one incomplete? He also wonders whether the NT applies to Jews and by implication whether the OT applies to Christians. --clh] Speaking only for myself ... The books of the OT were not delivered to the Jews at one time, they were written over a span of many years. IMHO, the books we separate into the NT are simply a continuation of the unfolding relevation of God that had been going on since Abraham or Moses. God's message was incomplete after the 5 books of Moses, it was incomplete after the Psalms were compiled, and it was incomplete after the last book (chronologically) of the OT was written. I believe Revelation was the close of this relevation; anything past that will have to be addresses by a Muslim. There are places in the OT where the Jews are said to have strayed from God's message, that is not something limited to the NT. (In the interest of fairness, I'm the first to admit that we Christians have strayed from the NT message several times ourselves; nobody's perfect.) Personally, I consider the entire Bible to apply to everyone. Even the God of the OT claimed to be the only true God and not just the God of the Jews. -- -catt (Scott Cattanach - catt@uiuc.edu) Psalm 37:21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth. - King David on the relations between Washington and us taxpayers