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The Old Testament contains the history of the people of God, the law, and the prophets. The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains: The Old Testament is an indispensable part of Sacred Scripture. Marcion was held a heretical view that the Old Testament should be taken out of the Bible along with several books of the New Testament. Key principles for reading Scripture. CCC 122: Indeed, "the economy of the Old Testament was deliberately so oriented that it should prepare for and declare in prophecy the coming of Christ, redeemer of all men." Even after Christ's death and resurrection, there wasn't any written scriptures, except the Old Testament, until the first gospel was written in about 65AD. For example, much of what Jesus said and did fulfilled prophecy stated about Him in the Old Testament. The Old Testament brings some sense to our questions and answers many of them. The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains: The Old Testament is an indispensable part of Sacred Scripture. When seeing the prophecies fulfilled, it reaffirms my faith even more in our Awesome God! Since God inspired & confirmed the Bible, we had better know how to read it correctly! To put it another way, parts of the Old Testament are understood best if read as referring to Jesus. Unbeknown to many, in the Bible, there is no cut-off between the Old Testament and the New. Why the deuterocanonicals are inspired. I've never really written anything but I love reading and discussing Catholic theology and apologetics, which I spend a lot of my free time studying, along with ecclesiology. There are countless stories in the Hebrew Scriptures, and some are more interesting than the bestselling novels of today. Also it's through the Old Testament that we can get the context of scripture as a whole. this document begins to explain why there are OT laws that do not apply to us today. The Old Testament prepares for the New and the New Testament fulfills the Old; the two shed light on each other; both are true Word of God, (See also 1 Corinthians 10:11 & Romans 15:4). I promise you it will strengthen your faith, and add to it a level of depth that you didn't even know you were missing. The Church has always vigorously opposed the idea of rejecting the Old Testament under the pretext that the New has rendered it void (Marcionism). As we see these prophecies being fulfilled in Christ, it validates who He is as the Messiah. "Even though they contain matters imperfect and provisional," the books of the Old Testament bear witness to the whole divine pedagogy of God's saving love: these writings "are a storehouse of sublime teaching on God and of sound wisdom on human life, as well as a wonderful treasury of prayers; in them, too, the mystery of our salvation is present in a hidden way.". I'm a recent convert from evangelical Protestantism, but I realized years ago that I wasn't really protesting anything. CCC 123: Christians venerate the Old Testament as true Word of God. It is filled with many wonderful stories and characters. Context. The two sections of scripture are divided into, what we now call, the Old Testament and the New Testament. I've written a few articles on my blog, in a series called The Story of Salvation (Link here), and I just thought I'd take a break from the story to say why it's even important to know and understand the Old Testament. https://m.facebook.com/catholicconvert2016/, New Blog https://nowthatimcatholic.wordpress.com. So when the inspired writers of the New Testament made reference to "the scriptures" it was always the Old Testament because the new hadn't yet been written. The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains: The Old Testament is an indispensable part of Sacred Scripture. 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