It's not correct to choose what to believe you can't decide because all law is good. Christ himself is just the fulfillment of such law so if you choose not to believe in the old testament you can't truly believe in the new one. Because you don't believe in the need for the justification of sin if you don't believe in the definition of it (old testament law) You can't say that the old is for older times and a specific people because God was before everything and always will be so saying that the law is outdated is like saying people changed in their core (they haven't we still have wars and slaughterings and slavery just not near us) or that the law is not perfect (therefor making God himself flawed)and even your justification that it was to the Israeli people is wrong because it's not that there is a new chosen people or that everyone is the chosen people but that the non Israeli are in fact ADOPTED into the people of God. So it's not correct to do so what you should however do is study the law by your own head and season it with your own conscience.
If I believed that the Old Testament was, in the main, the word of God. Then indeed it would be wrong for me to nglect it and only pay attention to the New Testament. However the very reason for which I only appreciate the old testament as a context in which to understand the new is that I think that most of it is not related to the word of God. This can be seen in the ways that God is said to act in the Old Testament. On at least one occasion he tells the israelites to go to war with another civilisation and wipe them out. How is the reconcileable with Jesus' message of peace and forgiveness? I grant that the old testament may contain some wisdom, but I find it highly unlikely that the majority of the Old Testament is the word of God.
IIN to not believe in the old testament?
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It's not correct to choose what to believe you can't decide because all law is good. Christ himself is just the fulfillment of such law so if you choose not to believe in the old testament you can't truly believe in the new one. Because you don't believe in the need for the justification of sin if you don't believe in the definition of it (old testament law) You can't say that the old is for older times and a specific people because God was before everything and always will be so saying that the law is outdated is like saying people changed in their core (they haven't we still have wars and slaughterings and slavery just not near us) or that the law is not perfect (therefor making God himself flawed)and even your justification that it was to the Israeli people is wrong because it's not that there is a new chosen people or that everyone is the chosen people but that the non Israeli are in fact ADOPTED into the people of God. So it's not correct to do so what you should however do is study the law by your own head and season it with your own conscience.
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If I believed that the Old Testament was, in the main, the word of God. Then indeed it would be wrong for me to nglect it and only pay attention to the New Testament. However the very reason for which I only appreciate the old testament as a context in which to understand the new is that I think that most of it is not related to the word of God. This can be seen in the ways that God is said to act in the Old Testament. On at least one occasion he tells the israelites to go to war with another civilisation and wipe them out. How is the reconcileable with Jesus' message of peace and forgiveness? I grant that the old testament may contain some wisdom, but I find it highly unlikely that the majority of the Old Testament is the word of God.