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Folks, there are a lot of strange birds out there.
On one hand, you’ve got the Orthodox Jews who only accept the Old Testament as being valid Scripture. Not only that, but they seem to view the opinions and interpretations of their rabbis in the Talmud — Mishnah and Gemara — as being more important than the Scriptures themselves.
Then you’ve also got what I refer to as the Pauline Extremists who seem to erroneously place the words of the Apostle Paul even before the words of Jesus Himself in the four Gospels. They don’t outright reject the four Gospels, but they view the Gospel to the Gentiles as barely beginning in the Book of Acts, and really beginning in Paul’s Epistle to the Romans.
Personally, I view both of those extreme positions as dangerous and a serious imbalance.
For the record, I embrace, read, quote from and teach from the entire Scriptures — from Genesis to Revelation — in many of my articles, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
After all, as they say, “the Old Testament is the New Testament concealed, and the New Testament is the Old Testament revealed”.
Quite frankly, you can’t have one without the other. As Jesus said, He came to fulfill the Law and the Prophets, so the Old Testament is very important to modern-day Christians.
In fact, as you may know, even the Apostles quoted from the Old Testament, as did Jesus Himself, many times.
The truth of the matter is that the Old and New Testaments fit together like a hand in a glove. You need to know and understand one, in order to understand the other.
Please remember that a false balance is abomination to the Lord — Proverbs 11:1.
