Section 0: Introduction

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The Old Testament of the Bible is a Hebrew book. It was inspired by God to the Hebrews, who spoke and thought in the Hebrew language, and reasoned using Hebrew logic. The New Testament was written by Hebrew men [1] who witnessed the life of Jesus and recorded some of the things that Jesus did that fulfilled the prophecy of the Old Testament. The New Testament authors also attempted to teach the Greeks (gentiles) how to read the Old Testament like Hebrews. Unfortunately, the Greeks did not wish to become Jewish, nor learn to read and think like Hebrews. By 400 AD the church had become fully Greek, with some of the leaders even claiming that the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament was more reliable.

To be a Christian, one does not need to become come Jewish. However, the Old Testament is the foundation of the faith, containing the identity of the Messiah hidden in its symbols and riddles, as well as all the doctrine of the New Testament. Today, Greek theologians [2] wonder where Paul got his novel doctrine since, on the surface, it appears to be very different from the Old Testament teaching, and that of Jesus. However, When Paul taught in Berea, the people there checked his doctrine against the Old Testament, only accepting it when they saw that his teaching was contained in it.

Like the Bereans, we too can check the teaching of the New Testament against the hidden riddles of the Old. We too can see the mystery which was hidden from the beginning. To do so, we must learn to read and think like Hebrews. Modern scholars will attempt to teach you Hebrew culture, forgetting that most of the time, the Jews were disobedient to God and even called prostitutes and adulterers for seeking after other gods. The way to learn how to think like a Hebrew does not come from the culture which denies Christ, but from the Hebrew scripture itself. The Christ deniers only retain a memory of the teachings of God, which have been perverted to hide Christ from their own children.

Modern Jews claim that Christians have twisted Jewish writings to insert Christ in them. But The first church was Jewish. They saw Christ in the scriptures. So the argument is not between Jews and Christians, but between Jews who accepted Christ, and those who denied him.

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  1. .. with few exceptions.
  2. This term used of the Catholic and Protestant theologians who have descended intellectually from Augustine