So, does God change from one testament to the other? Not according to Jesus. Jesus repeatedly affirms the unity and coherence of both testaments by saying, “I have not come to abolish the law or ...

The New Testament attests that the patriarchs pleased God (Heb. 11:1-2, 8-9, 17-21), but more to the point, God makes the initial oath concerning Abraham’s descendants specifically as a reward ...

Another Old Testament event that prefigures the sacrament of reconciliation is in Genesis 4. Adam’s oldest son, Cain, kills his younger brother, Abel. God, like he did with Adam, tries to elicit ...

Election in the Old Testament. In the Old Testament, both God and humans are said ... God’s choice is not based on anything other than his own will. On this view, God has no reason for including ...

Cross Vision is a popular condensation of Boyd’s nearly 1,500-page, two-volume work published earlier this year and titled Crucifixion of the Warrior God: Interpreting the Old Testament’s Violent ...

The Old Testament tells the story of Israel coming to know the living God, but the story doesn’t stop until we arrive at Jesus! It isn’t Joshua the son of Nun who gives us the full revelation ...

Therefore, today, we discuss the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible and, next week, the New. Here is my take on pleasing God: I really want to and try to use my gifts and talents to glorify Him.

The Old Testament hue and cry reminds us that we are all our “brother’s keeper[s]” (Gen. 4:9). The Kinsman Redeemer The hue and cry provided help the moment a crime took place.

Elijah’s life-sustaining encounter with God illuminates the powerful results of solitude that simply do not come to us in any other way. The Old Testament’s matter-of-fact recounting of ...