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Understanding The Old Testament Scripture

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Your post bought up a great point about people believing God of the Old Testament and God of the New Testament not being the same. At times it seems like we can relate to the New Testament Scriptures better than the Old Testament. The Old Testament is full of laws and customs that we do not encounter today so it feels foreign to us. Our textbook states, “When the Bible is allowed to speak from its vantage point and with its own agenda, the reader can be more open to learn what it is intending to teach” (HW 21). In order to understand the point Old Testament Scripture is trying to make we need to understand its historical background. To truly understand God we need to study his word. Learning about God is a process that never ends and
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