{"id":1014,"date":"2010-03-24T21:54:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T02:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2010\/03\/24\/before-you-read-the-new-testament\/"},"modified":"2010-03-24T21:54:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T02:54:15","slug":"before-you-read-the-new-testament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/24\/before-you-read-the-new-testament\/","title":{"rendered":"Before You Read the New Testament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This evening&#8217;s quotation comes from a book that came in the mail today.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>At every point early Christians attempted to understand their Scriptures in the new light of the ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. They used the Old Testament to prove their Christian theology and to solve Christian problems. <em><strong>The Old Testament provided the substructure of the New Testament theology.<\/strong><\/em> The Old Testament also provided the language and imagery for much of New Testament thought, although this is not always obvious to a casual reader. Therefore, New Testament concepts must be understood from Old Testament passages. <em><strong>Virtually every New Testament subject must be approached through the contribution of the Old Testament<\/strong> <\/em>(pp. 29-30; my emphasis).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My paraphrase: You &#8216;ll understand the book better if you start at the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>Source; Snodgrass, Klyne. &#8220;The Use of the Old Testament in the New.&#8221; In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0801010888\/713713713-20\"><em>The Right Doctrine from the Wrong Texts? Essays on the Use of the Old Testament in the New<\/em><\/a>, ed. G. K. Beale, 29\u201351. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening&#8217;s quotation comes from a book that came in the mail today. At every point early Christians attempted to understand their Scriptures in the new light of the ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. They used the Old Testament to prove their Christian theology and to solve Christian problems. The Old Testament provided\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/24\/before-you-read-the-new-testament\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,22,32,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-israel","category-isaiah","category-prophets-besides-isaiah","category-psalms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}