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Choose just one of the themes from the list below. Note developments of that theme in the Old Testament to the New Testament (N.T.), and show how N.T. writers reinterpreted it. Discuss similarities, differences, and changes to the meaning. You must provide a separate outline. Use only the Bible and the following resource that is available as an e-Book: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology. Be sure to distinguish between paraphrase and direct quotes.
Themes
Justice
Servant of God
Jerusalem
Covenant
Redemption
Sin
Love
Son of Man
Peace
Faith
Resurrection
Wealth and Poverty
Christ
Son of God
Lord
Mercy and Compassion
Repentance
Death
Kingdom of God
Wisdom
Priest
Faith
The similarities between the old Testament and the new Testament reflects both the continuity and discontinuity between the Christian and the Israelite faiths. Christians believe god has one plan for justice that was revealed first to the Israelites and then to all peoples through Jesus Christ. The new Testament and the old Testament , then, tell one ongoing story of justice.
The Aeneid, a poem written before the era of Christ and Christianty, has been argued to be a precursor to the values of christianity, much as the old Testament is a precursor to the new testament. while the Aeneid does not explicity lay out these values, scholars have interpreted the text otherwise. some scholars have made claims arguing for the connection between the Aeneid and the new testament, finding their evidence in other works of litereture, especially dante Alighieri's the inferno, one of Alighieri's three poems about the journey into the christian afterlife.
However, when one looks closely with analytic and skeptical eyes, these connections are not as strong as they might seems. This paper argues that the connections between the Aeneid and christianityt are spurious, and that the evidence put forth in defence of this argument does not establish its existence. The old testament is a book of stories and instructions that establishes divine law for the jewish people. The new Testament akso consists of strories, but instead of focusing on establishing a law, it provides a moral guide to get into the kingdom of heaven.