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The New Testament contains God’s nal
instructions for living. It was written almost
two thousand years ago, when it joined the
corpus of Scripture that had been the Bible
of Jesus (Old Testament). It remains timeless
in its application. That is why the apostle
Paul, writing to his friend Timothy about
their ancient Bible, asserted dogmatically,
“All Scripture is inspired by God and
pro table for teaching, for reproof, for
correction, for training in righteousness; that
the man of God may be adequate, equipped
for every good work” (2 Tim. 3:16-17). In
the same context, Paul had reminded
Timothy that it was the sacred writings that
had given Timothy “the wisdom that leads
to salvation through faith which is in Christ
Jesus” (2 Tim. 3:15). So it is correct to say
that all spiritual lessons derived from
passages in the New Testament have
something to say, directly or indirectly,
about these two timeless, vital life truths:
way to God, or walk with God. The Bible is
that contemporary. And so we must open
our hearts to its message. In the words of
Edward J. Young,
In approaching the Bible … we
need to remember that it is sacred
ground. We must approach it with
humble hearts, ready to hear what
the
Lord
God
says.
The
kaleidoscopic history of negative
criticism is but further evidence
that unless we do approach the
Bible in a receptive attitude, we
shall fail to understand it. Nor
need
we
be
ashamed
to
acknowledge that the words of
Scripture are of God. … The
attempt to explain them as
anything less than Divine is one of
the greatest failures that has ever
appeared in the history of human
thought.49
V. REVIEW QUESTIONS
1. Write a list of four relationships
between the New Testament and the Old
Testament.
2. Why is it important to survey the New
Testament as a whole before analyzing its
individual parts (e.g., chapter study)?
3. Write out (as many as you can recall) a
list of New Testament key truths discussed
in the chapter.
4. In your own words, what are the divine
practical purposes of the New Testament?
VI. SELECTED READING
HISTORICAL, RELIGIOUS, AND POLITICAL
SETTING OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
Bruce, F. F. “Between the Testaments.” In
The New Bible Commentary. Rev. ed.
Edited by D. Guthrie and J. A. Motyer,
pp. 59-63.
Dosker, Henry E. “Between the
Testaments.” In The International
Standard Bible Encyclopedia, 1:455-58.
Gundry, Robert H. A Survey of the New
Testament, pp. 3-20; 33-55.
Harrison, Everett F. Introduction to the
New Testament, pp. 3-56; 91-128.
Lace, O. Jessie, ed. Understanding the New
Testament, pp. 11-63.
Manley, G. T. The New Bible Handbook,
pp. 276-97.
Metzger, Bruce M. The New Testament: Its
Background, Growth and Content.
Mounce, Robert H. “Is the New
