A theism part 1 preface part 2

'Our next appointment was once again in Deventer, in a park near to the IJssel. I was a sunny day and there where many people around. Because this park isn't directly laying next to the IJssel there where a little less people than next to the IJssel, many people like to sit next to the water on warm days like these. On a small bench we started to talk. "You appear to have some arguments against the fact that Jesus cannot be God." Henry asked me to tell him why. "Indeed I disagree with this and I do so because it appears wrongly to me." Henry: "Why?" I had an answer for this. "Jeremia 17,5 teaches us that he who trusts on a human is cursed. When we claim that Jesus is a man out of men we bring ourselves under this curse by our denial that Jesus is truly God." Though this was the first argument that I brought up Henry thought that this was my only argument. "It tells me a lot about your faith that you use the old testament to deny the gospel." "Henry," I replied, "without the old testament the new testament has not a single foundation."

Almost all the things that Jesus said are from the old testament our directly connected to it. Dozens prophecies in the old testament are fullfiled in Jesus and the new testament. Often hundreds are mentioned. Even if it would be only fifty. Even than I believe it cannot be claimed that the new testament could excist without the old. Certainly, looking to the many times the old testament is cited in the new testament prooves to me that they are a strong unity.

Besides that, The fact that there is a new covenant prooves that there has been a old covenant. The old covenant tells us a lot about the new covenant. Looking at the length of the old testament, the Tanakh, makes me believe this part is a crucial part of the bible. This makes clear to me that the unity between the old and the new coventant cannot be broken. "Also the old testament is true," was the opinion of Henry, "but the new testament came as a substitution for the old, which was obsolete. That is why we must not focus to much on the old testament but aim our attention to the words that Jesus said." I believe myself that the new testament explains the meaning of the old and can both testament not live without each other. That is why I do not believe that we would have to keep the Torah entirely, law for law and stealing the joy that came with the law by doing so. But in our argument about the Godness of Jesus the prophecies and the history can be a remarkable help for us to understand the bible. Not so much the law itself. On the contrary Jesus claims to be the fullfilling of the law. The law learns us some about this subject too. I believe that with the fullfilling of the law Jesus thought also about the prophecies. Jesus himself talks about the law when he cites a psalm (Psalm 82,6, John 10,34). I believe that the entire Tanakh wil be prophetical and directs us to the new. That is why I would like to first investigate the old testament and ground the ideas that are availeble in it with the new testament. I told Henry about my plans and he agreed. Then I started my explanation.