Similarities Between Christianity And Hebrew Bible

In Judeo-Christian beliefs, there are groups of texts that are observed in both traditions. This comes to be because a portion of the Hebrew Bible is included in what Christians consider the Old Testament. These overlapping texts set the foundation for how the world was created in both faiths. Though for the purposes of comparing “creation” between the two traditions, the Hebrew Bible, including what is considered to be the Old Testament, will solely represent creation for Judaism. While creation for Christianity will begin with the New Testament. The Hebrew Bible begins with the book of Genesis. This opening sets the creation of the world by God in seven days. In the spans of the seven days of creation, God shapes everything from light to the Earth to mankind and all the animals living on Earth in six days. On the seventh day, God “finished work that He had been doing” and therefore “blessed the seventh and declared it holy” (Genesis 2). Depicting all what God created, as well as the order in which God created the earth, is basis for supporting the claim that Jews should worship God because he is responsible for all of creation. In fact, in Isiah 45:6 God says that “there is none but Me” emphasizing that He is the only creator of the world. In his speech to Cyrus, God makes it clear that people

In the Gospel of Matthew 4:10 it is states that “You must worship the Lord your God, and serve God only” as Jesus Christ is introduced to spread the word of God. The New Testament also draws in elements of the Hebrew Bible in subtle methods like word choice. For example, the Gospel of John begins with “in the beginning” as it did in the book of Genesis. Another similarity between the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, is that they both give the genealogy of mankind. In the Hebrew Bible, it traces the ancestors of Abraham, while the New Testament traces 14 generations before