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Lesson OneIntroduction to the Old Testament6 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson TwoOld Testament: Beginnings Through Settlement5 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson ThreeOld Testament: Kings Through Exile5 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson FourIntroduction to the New Testament6 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson FiveNew Testament: The Gospels and Acts5 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson SixNew Testament: Letters and Revelation5 Activities1 Assessment
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Course Wrap-UpCourse Completion1 Activity1 Assessment
Participants 1
Discussion Questions
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What are some reasons one should study the Old Testament?
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It helps us to know God and understand his plan of redemption.
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It teaches us about God, how life began, how evil came into the world, prophesis about the Messiah-Redeemer, inspires us to live holy, and it fills us with gratitude and praise.
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To know who God is
To know the heart of God
To learn God’s plan to redeem fallen man to Himself
To know what God wants from us, His children
To understand the relationship between the OT and the NT -
We should study the OT because it is the foundation for everything that was fulfilled in the NT. The OT is the reason we know how we were created, we can understand how much GOD loves us – everything he did to consistently redeem us. We can truly understand how much GOD wants a relationship with us from the OT. It teaches us how to pray; praise and worship.
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Because from Old Testament we know about God more deeply. It also help us knowing New Testament.
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Why would a lack of knowledge of the Old Testament weaken our understanding of the New Testament?
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Because the Old Testament is the foundation of the new, without it we would not know the basis for the New Testament.
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Foundational truths are learned in the Old Testament without them complete New Testament understanding isn’t possible.
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An understanding of the Old Testament allows to more deeply understand the reason of the the NT. The OT points to the NT so we need to know how and why to grasp the truth of the NT.
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We have to remember that when the people written about in the New Testament lived, there was no New Testament. There was only the Old Testament. When they went to temple, they read the Old Testament. When they set up new laws, they referred to the Old Testament. When they wanted to learn about God, they went to the Old Testament. This is what all of society was based on, and this is the society that Jesus was born into and was a part of. So the Old Testament provides the foundation for all of the knowledge, history, and prophecy that the people had for their religious and cultural studies.
It also shows a different side of the Trinity. While the New Testament often focuses on Jesus and the Holy Spirit, the Old Testament focuses on God. Knowing about God is essential to knowing Jesus and the Holy Spirit. -
The old testament sets up the problem of sin, shows use God’s grace and mercy, introduces the solution of Christ. The new testament is the fulfillment of the Old. We cannot understand the new unless we understand the old.