Which testament do you prefer?

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Which testament do you prefer?

The Old Testament or the New Testament?

In my view, the Old Testament of Judaism describes life - being a human being - with great accuracy at times in terms of telling stories which suggest that the battle between good and evil, between good kings and mediocre kings and bad kings, has been around for a long time.

In my view, the New Testament of Christianity describes life in very imaginative ways and offers free tickets to heaven in exchange for a Christian life on earth.

The New Testament provides a very nice ending to it: a pot of gold at the end of the road aka a heaven with twelve gates (pearly gates) and streets of gold.

Hey, I can live with that.

Some already do like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett but that's a different story.

So, which testament do you prefer, the Old Testament of Judaism or the New Testament of Christianity?

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Not everyone wants to live in a city of gold, for example, the Wizard preferred an Emerald City.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard ... (1939_film)

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Gold is not your thing, neither are emeralds?

Then, how about silver?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_City,_Nevada

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or bronze?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Rodin

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Other?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey

The TNKH or Hebrew Scriptures has a lot more meat on its bones than do the Gospels.

BTW TNKH is an english rendition of the acronym for the Hebrew Bible To wit: Torah (that is the T), N'veeim (Prophets) and KH (or CHatovim) the writings such as Ecclieastes or the Book of Esther.

The so called "Old" Testament indicates the Christian view that their new religion displaced or replace Judaism. It did no such thing. The Contract (Testament) between G-D and His people is still in force. Devout Jews structure their lives around this Contract. Let devout Jews, such as myself, see the Contract as part and parcel of the cultural nature of the Jewish People. Whether or not this Contract is "real", the essence and being of Jews be they devout or not so devout flows from this Contract.

The Jewish people simply have not fulfilled Christian expectations and disappeared, either by perishing or conversion to Christianity. We are still here after 2000 years and there is no sign we shall disappear any time soon.

ruveyn

I prefer the Old Testament because it's bad-arse. Dead babies? Yes please. Huge floods? You bet your arse! Millions of Locusts? That's just the start. If there was ever an epic book, it's the old Testament. Tolkien has nothing on That story arc.