“The New Testament lies hidden in the Old Testament and the Old Testament is unveiled in the New Testament” (St. Augustine)
I remember quite a few years ago the Anglican church published statistics that analysed the average congregants Bible reading patterns, and the results were revealing. One-third had read the New Testament in full and only one-fifth had the read the Bible in its entirety.
Although these results were dismal at best, it highlighted the fact that among those who actually bothered to read the Bible, most were majoring exclusively on the new testament.
Why is this a problem? Let me use a famous quote from St. Augustine:-
“The New Testament lies hidden in the Old Testament and the Old Testament is unveiled in the New Testament”
In other words Scripture reveals and illuminates Scripture.
Gev over at the Rosh Pina Project has put together some excellent thoughts based around the question of: “Why the ‘Old’ Testament for the ‘New’ Testament believer?” This is well worth a read in my opinion, so do pop across:-
Tags: Christian Life
March 4th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
The real question is why would some want to breakdown, conceal and deny the association.
March 4th, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Odd, ain’t it, that so many who read almost exclusively the NT forget that those who wrote the NT did so while reading the OT