Why did NT authors (Saints) read scripture

Hi Bob,

I'm not sure what you have in mind here, but I think you maybe addressing others post. So this maybe out of line...but i want to address this in the light that I 1st read your post. I for one place great value in Gods Word. This is both the OT and the NT. The OT has so many types of Christ it is rich in the truth.

Jacob's Ladder

Jesus presents himself as the reality to which the stairway pointed. The patriarch saw in a dream the reunion of heaven and earth through the One Mediator, Jesus Christ, which is now brought to reality both for Jacob and for all believers.

Moses

Moses was the deliverer from Egypt, Christ is now the greater Deliverer from this present evil world (Galatians 1:5), from the devil and from our sin.

The Temple

The OT tells of the "tent outside the camp"...A picture of Gods Holiness
The the tent was moved to the middle of the camp..A picture of Christ coming to earth and living with us.
In the NT the temple is the body of the believer.

Boaz

I have no doubt that Boaz is a type of Christ, who became incarnate, springing from Judah too, in order to acquire for himself a bride from the Gentile nations. He was willing to do so (as Boaz was willing to redeem and marry Ruth)....He has to power to do so, .....and He is our Kinsman, with the right to do so.

The Cleansing with Hyssop

The covenant was ratified by the blood of sprinkling, applied by dipping the hyssop into it. This sprinkling of the blood finds its antitype in Jesus Christ and his shed blood on Calvary. Sprinkling of blood was part of the Old Testament ritual service. In general, the appearance of blood advertises the death of a victim. Christ's shed blood cries for forgiveness.

The Two Turtledoves or Young Pigeons

The need for Mary's purification arose from her being ceremonially unclean for seven days after the birth of a son. For another thirty-three days she was to keep away from holy things. The mother was then to offer a lamb plus a dove or pigeon. If she was poor her offering was two doves or two young pigeons (Leviticus 12:6-8). Mary gave the offering of the poor. "For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich" (2 Corinthians 8:9).

At the same time the first male child of every mother was presented to the Lord (Exodus 13:2). As he was "redeemed" by the sacrifice of two turtledoves, He was to be the true Redeemer of God's children who were scattered abroad. He was "sanctified" that He might sanctify others.

Manna

1) The bread provided through Moses as much as it proved God's care and provision, was only material and temporary...... Christ and his sacrifice satisfies the soul eternally.

2)Just as manna came down from heaven, even so the Son came down from heaven

Jonah

Jesus mentions Jonah's three-day experience in the belly of the fish as indicative of what would happen to Him.... his death and resurrection the third day

Melchizedek

Melchizedek is a type of Christ as a royal-priest: King of Salem (righteousness) and king of peace. His priesthood is eternal, and it is non-transferable.


others....
http://www.bible-topics.com/Types-of-Christ.html

In Christ..James

 

Are you saying some would claim other wise?

 

I don't think I understand your question. It seems self-evident to me that the NT writers would depend on OT Scripture (and in a few cases some apocyphal items) to support what they are saying. The Pauline corpus and Hebrews are replete with OT references in order to support their arguments; why not? That was their thought-world and that of their audience as well.

So maybe I am not hearing your question.

Isn't it interesting, by the way, how II Peter refers to the writings of Paul, even at that early date, as "Scripture"? I surely do agree with the writer of II Peter that "there are some things in them difficult to understand." If he didn't understand them, how much more am I going to have a hard time with them <grin>!

 

I once had the experience of living in a "hot.bed" of Church of Christ followers. And as a denomination they believe in the New Testament selectively. They believe only in that part of the New Testament that they want to believe in.
As a group, Church of Christ people are a little standoffish, and very pleasing to themselves In their own eyes.

 

The OT is as much God's word as the NT. Jesus referred to the OT over and over again, calling it scripture and recognizing its authority.

We are, however, to read the OT in light of the NT - that's a principal of biblical hermeneutics. We are also to read the OT in context - who was God talking to and how to apply that.

But I'm not getting into a discussion of the Sabbath, if that is what this is leading to. Count me out. I've already read and posted on those threads before.