"Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled." (Matthew 5:17, 18)
I think people would have far less "problems" with the Old Testament if they realized this one principle. Jesus did not come to "destroy the Law or the Prophets." But this is exactly what much of modern Christianity, even "evangelical" Christianity, has done. "Oh, that's Old Testament," as though the Old Testament were something bad, condemning, and irrelevant. This attitude also fuels "replacement theology."
Jesus' very Life was the fulfillment of the Old Testament. After His resurrection, Jesus "opened their understanding" concerning "all things [which] must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms...." Paul speaks of the "new and better covenant." Of course it is "better," because the New is the fulfillment of the Old.
Don't read the Bible with religious glasses. Otherwise you will get bored, and say with so many that it is outdated, endless lists of names, speaking of events which have no significance for you and me today. But we will be able to come to no other conclusion if we do not see the Scriptures as "God-Breathed," i.e., the Very Breath of God. If, however, we see the Words of God as indeed the "God-Breathed" revelation of Jesus Christ, as revelation of the very Nature of the Living Triune God, we will "drink ye all of it."
"God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son...." Okay, that's "better."
Father, in Jesus' Name, alert me anytime I entertain erroneous theology. Amen.
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