Go to The Narrow Path Ministry Topic: Old Testament Application |
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2024-03-13 |
Parable of the Sower: Do you think that the "Parable of the Sower" is teaching that there are two ways to lose your salvation? [Matthew 13:18-23, John 15:1-4, Luke 8:4-15, Mark 4:4-20]. Understanding Scripture: How do you understand the nuance of just reading the Bible and really understanding, especially when writers like James seem to stretch for the explanation? How do we know when to apply it to then or now? [Acts 15:14-17, Amos 9:11-12]. |
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2024-03-01 |
Stonings (Capital Punishment) in the Old Testament: How do you respond to my atheist friend's accusation that the Old Testament amoral law about stoning is just like Islamic laws, therefore Christianity is no better? [Deuteronomy 13:6-10, Acts 17:30]. Application of Old Testament Law: Until when did the Old Testament Law apply? |
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2023-08-04 |
Applying Old Testament Scripture to Our Lives: Is it wrong to apply Old Testament scriptures to our lives today, even though it was actually directed to the Israelites? [2 Timothy 3:16-17, 1 Timothy 1:15-11, 1 Corinthians 9:9, 1 Timothy 5:18, Deuteronomy 22:10, 2 Corinthians 6:14-18, Joshua 1:5, Hebrews 13:5]. |
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2022-12-29 |
Why Keep the Old Testament?: If the Old Testament is obsolete, then why do we even have it in our Bibles? Is there any denomination that uses only the New Testament? [Exodus 19-20]. New Testament vs Old Testament: Isn't it only the New Testament that is necessary for the Christian today? |
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2022-08-08 |
Following The Old Testament Law Today Better: Do you think that people misinterpret Jesus' statement about "not casting the first stone" and it facilitates immorality and it would be better if we followed the Old Testament Law? [John 8:7] |
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2022-03-18 |
Eschatology & Politics in Judges (Daniel, Isaiah): Atheist asks-Is there any eschatological or current political application to the Old Testament story of Ehud? [Judges 3]. Determining Biblical History from Parables & Allegories: From an atheist-How does one determine the difference between actual Biblical history, allegory, fables, parables, etc.? Atheist Questions Authenticity of Scripture: Atheist challenges that various religious groups differ dramatically in their opinions of the meanings in scripture, asserts that the Bible is false, and challenges how one determines the correct interpretation of scripture. |
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2021-12-06 |
Afterlife & Hell Not Found in Old Testament: Is it correct that the afterlife and hell is not really mentioned in the Old Testament? Hell in the New Testament, Why Not Old Testament: Why wouldn't the Old Testament talk more about hell when it is so important in the New Testament? [2 Peters 2:4, Isaiah 14:9-20]. |
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2021-04-06 |
Early Christians and the Old Testament Law: If the early Christians didn't have the New Testament, how did they know that they did not have to follow the Old Testament Law? [Acts 15]. |
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2021-03-26 |
The God of the Old Testament contrasted to the God of the New Testament: Could you help me sort out the idea that the God of the Old Testament is not the same God who was the father of Jesus, because I don't think that the Pentateuch (1st five books of the Old Testament) was written by Moses and the Nag Hammadi Texts? Rec: Lecture; Intro to the Old Testament. [John 5:37, John 8:54]. |
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2021-03-11 |
Application of Old Testament to Christians (Tithing): Could you help me understand how to determine what in the Old Testament applies to us and what doesn't, like tithing? |
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2021-01-19 |
Christians Bound by the Law: Are today's Christians bound by the Old Testament Laws, if so, why? [Hebrews 8:13, Luke 16:16, Matthew 5:20]. |
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2021-01-04 |
Old Testament View of Afterlife: Could you clarify why Bart Erhman puts forward the idea that Old Testament Jews did not embrace an idea of an afterlife? [Psalm 49:15, Daniel 12:2]. |
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2020-11-05 |
Studying the Manuscripts: Caller recommends the book, "Encountering the Manuscripts" by Philip Comfort for studying the scriptures. Old Testament Metaphors for Evangelism: Can you find any flaw in Christians seeing metaphors of Christ in any of the Old Testament and then sharing that with unbelievers? [John 5:46, Isaiah 53]. Greg Boyd: What do you think about Reknew.org and Greg Boyd? |
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2020-10-05 |
Paul's Travelogue for Our Instruction: What are we supposed to learn from Paul's travelogue in Acts 27, especially in light of the verse that all scripture is for our instruction? [Acts 27, 2 Timothy 3:15-16]. |
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2020-08-24 |
Old Testament Law Wise to Follow: Do you not think that much of the Old Testament law was wisely written for the good of mankind, therefore is not acceptable for us to follow whichever laws we wish to follow? |
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2020-07-07 |
The Ten Commandments Not for Christians Today: Did I misunderstand what you said about Christians today not having to obey the Ten Commandment? [I Corinthians 9:21]. Sabbath Day: Do we not have to set aside a Sabbath day for worship? |
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2020-07-06 |
Nine Commandments for Christians: Are the other nine commandments important for Christian to keep? [Hebrews 8:13, I Corinthians 9:21, Revelation 14:12, Revelation 19:12]. |
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2020-06-19 |
New Testament Parallel to Hosea: Is there a New Testament verse that parallels to and explains Hosea 5? [Hosea 5:14-15, Ezekiel 37, Luke 21:20-22]. Blessed is He Who Comes in the Name of the Lord: Doesn't this verse parallel Hosea 5, and therefore predict that the Jews will turn back to Christ? Matthew 23:39? [ Hosea 5:14-15, Matthew 23:39, Matthew 6, Zechariah 14]. |
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2020-06-15 |
What From the Old Testament Applies to Us Today: How do we determine what from the Old Testament still applies to us today-especially regarding moral vs ceremonial law, and this relative to the restriction on homosexuality? Old Testament Restrictions on Tattoos and Menstruation Can you clarify why the sex during a menstrual cycle and tattoo Old Testament restrictions do not apply to us today? [Leviticus 18:19]. |
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2020-06-03 |
Old Testament Law & Punishment Application for Today: How does Old Testament law, crime & punishment apply to us today? |
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2020-01-15 |
Old Testament Teaching: How profitable and applicable is it for us today to read the Old Testament? |
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2020-01-06 |
Looking at Old Testament Prophecy: How should we be looking at Old Testament prophecies and their link to New Testament? [John 2, Psalm 2, Psalm 40:6-8, Psalm 110, Psalm 59:9, Isaiah 7, Isaiah 8, Luke 24:45, 2 Corinthians 3:15-18]. |
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2019-12-23 |
Clean & Unclean Meat: Should we keep some of the dietary laws of the Old Testament? [Deuteronomy 14, Matthew 5:18,15:11, 23:23, Mark 7:15-19]. |
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2019-10-10 |
Obeying the Ten Commandments: Isn't The Ten Commandments still applicable to us today, setting a standard against sin? [Exodus 31, John 12:48, John 8:31, John 14:15, Hebrew 7:12, I Corinthians 9, Jeremiah 31]. |
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2019-08-21 |
The Rock and Foundation: Is Jesus using Old Testament imagery to describe the New Testament church and how Christ is the church, and the apostles are what it is built upon? [I Peter 2:5, Ephesians 2:20, Matthew 16:18, 20:26]. |
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2019-08-15 |
Old Testament Applied to Us today: Is it wrong to take Old Testament verses about Canaan's need to root out their sin, and apply them to our lives and our need to root out sin, even when it is an indirect application? [Numbers 33:50-56, 2 Chronicles 7:14]. |
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2019-08-01 |
Application of Old Testament to Today: How do we know which parts of the Old Testament applies to us, and which parts are passed away, and no longer apply? |
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2019-06-25 |
Christians Obeying the Mosaic Law: Are Christians expected to obey the Mosaic Law? [Luke 16:16-17, Matthew 5:17-18, Galatians 4-5, Matthew 5:23, Romans 13:8]. |
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2019-03-04 |
Old Testament Law: According to the Old Testament, should we put rebellious children to death? [Deuteronomy 21:18-21], [Mark 7:9-1]. |
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2018-12-13 |
Virgin Birth: Double fulfillments, one in the Old Testament & one in the New Testament. [Isaiah 7 & 8] |
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2018-11-05 |
Old Testament & New Testament Application: Does the New Testament writings supersede the Old Testament, and if so, how do we sort it? |
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2018-11-01 |
Heaven & Hell in the OT: Heaven & Hell in the Bible, different words & meanings for those terms? Sheol Salvation for people in OT: How did people get saved in the OT, just obeying the law? |
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2018-08-16 |
Old Testament Application: How do we separate what is for us and what isn't in the OT law? I don't like tattoos, so does that apply? |
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2017-08-30 |
Paul's Writing Above all other's Writings: Have you ever heard that Paul's writings are elevated above anyone else's, including Jesus' own words? |
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2017-03-08 |
The Jesus Story Book Bible: Caller recommends a kids' Bible called, The Jesus Story Book Bible to the previous caller. Typological Applications to the Bible: How come Dispensationalists are not consistent in applying prophecy to the Bible like they do to the Old Testament? |
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2016-09-15 |
Interpreting OT in light of NT: Why is the best interpretative way to understand the OT in light of the NT? |
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2016-07-01 |
Circumcision for Today: How does circumcision apply to us today? [Deuteronomy 30:6] |
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2016-05-24 |
Kingdom of God in the OT: How was the Kingdom of God to be understood by Old TestamentT people? Do you suppose He hid it from them because of Satan? |
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2016-05-10 |
Old Testament Law: Which Old Testament Laws do we decide to keep or not? |
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2015-10-06 |
Trinity: Can you expound on the Trinity, & the Son of God being talked about in the OT? [Isaiah 9:6] |
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2015-07-15 |
Tithing: Isn't the Church like the temple of the Old Testament, so what's wrong w/ Tithing? |
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2015-07-08 |
The Law: We're not under the law, true, but we're also not supposed to be breakers of the law, is that not right? [Romans 3:19] Feast of Booths/Tabernacles: So what about the Feast of Booths/Tabernacles in [Zechariah 14]? Were those fulfilled, or not fulfilled until after He comes back? |
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2015-06-30 |
Dietary Laws: A friend of the caller thinks we need to still follow the Dietary Laws in order to obey God since we love Him. |
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2015-05-29 |
Saved by the Law in Old Testament: Were not the people of the Old Testament saved by keeping the law, in contrast to being saved by faith in the New Testament? |
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2015-04-27 |
Old Covenant: Is there any valuew in reading the Old Testament since we are in the new Covenant? Shouldn't we just focus on the New Testament since we aren't under the Old Covenant anymore? |
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2015-03-13 |
Blessings of the OT for Israel & us: Are the Old Testament just for Israel or for us also? |
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2015-03-11 |
Laws that we keep & don't keep: How do we know what laws to keep or not, from the Old Testament? The 10 commandments we hold to, right? Building Altars to Worship God: What about building little altars to worship God, extracting stuff from Old Testament stories? |
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2015-02-12 |
Abandoning the Old Testament: Since we are no longer under the Old Covenant, shouldn't we just abandon the Old Testament altogether? |
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2015-01-07 |
Finances - NT/OT version: There seems to be a completely different role of the importance of finances in the Old Testament vs the New Testament. |
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2014-11-06 |
Jews & Jesus: Will Jews ever believe Jesus to be the Savior the way He's purported to save people, will they ever believe that? (Asked by Michael the Buddhist...hence the word, "purported".) Old Testament Predictions of Jesus: What are some of the verses in the Old Testament that were fulfilled by Jesus of the New Testament? Why hast thou forsaken Me: Was this Jesus' human side, crying out, "My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken Me?" [Matthew 27:46] |
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2014-09-15 |
Homosexual Laws: Is the Old Testament no longer valid? Did Paul only look at Sodomy in light of the Temple prostitution? [1 Corinthians 6:9-20] |
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2014-08-14 |
OT practices: As long as it's not spoken against in the New Testament, are believers permitted to do things you had to do in the Old Testament? Such as Tithing? |
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2014-08-13 |
Micaiah telling King Ahab to go to Ramothgilead: Do you think when Micaiah was telling King Ahab to go prosper against Ramathgilead that he was telling him to go by himself or w/ his army? [2 Chronicles 18:14, 1 Kings 22:50] |
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2013-09-19 |
All Scripture Inspired by God: When it says in 2 Timothy that ALL Scripture was inspired by God, he was only talking about the Old Testament Scriptures at the time, wasn't he? [2 Timothy 3:15-16] Studying The Mosaic Law: So we shouldn't worry about studying the Old Testament law? |
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2013-09-05 |
Financially Supporting the Rape Victim: Isn't the reason God permitted the victim to be married by the attacker is to financially support her since she'd have no other means? Stoning Jesus because He Claimed to be God: Caller was trying to help a previous caller to explain that Jesus claimed to be God is why the Pharisees wanted to stone Him. [John 8:24] |
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2013-05-29 |
Ten Commandments Application: Do you think that the whole Old Testament is not really for us as believers? [2 Timothy 3:16]. Sabbath Worship is Sunday: Isn't it appropriate to consider that for us today the Sabbath Day refers simply to Sunday, or whatever day you gather to worship with others? |
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2013-02-08 |
Obeying the 10 Commandments, Pride & Reading OT: What do we take from the Old Testament to the New Testament? The 10 Commandments? [Romans 6] |