WHY OLD vs. NEW TESTAMENT?
The Lord Jesus Christ is described as the Mediator of the New Covenant. – Heb. 9:15 The events surrounding the Lord Jesus Christ provide a natural means of division of the scripture, between those writings dealing with the Old Testament and the New Testament. However, it must be remembered that this division of the Bible into Old and New Testaments is man made. The whole Bible is the revelation of God, and is one complete and indivisible book. Some claim that the Old Testament became outdated when Christ appeared nearly 2000 years ago, but that is not so. The New Testament constantly refers the reader back to the Old. Christ, in preaching, told his listeners to “search the Scriptures” (John 5:39) by which he meant the Old Testament. He appealed to those same Scriptures to expound the things concerning himself: “Beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them (the disciples) in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.” (Luke 24:27) The Bible will never be proper
