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Originally Posted by barryem
Actually the early Christians ignored the Old Testament until they began to realize that being part of a new religion caused them problems with the Romans
Barry
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Sorry, rubbish. Read your church history. All but Luke of New Testament writers were Jewish and Luke was a convert to Judaism before being a Christian.
It wasn't until the Roman Empire adopted Christianity that it started to sever Jewish roots, which never involved ignoring the Old Testament. Then the Church split into Western Rome, Eithiopean, Asia, Eastern Orthodox and Coptic.
Christ is the Passover lamb. You need the Old Testament to understand it.
The Eastern Orthodox Church deliberately arranged Passover /Easter to NEVER fall on the Jewish passover. Jews and Rome used a different calendar so Easter and Passover often didn't coincide. There was later the Gregorian Calendar and the Roman Church revised how Easter was calculated.
There was never a time when any branch of Christians ignored the Old Testament. Though they have different arrangements of books, and which are Canonical and Deutro-Canonical, differing from the Hebrew bible. The Main Greek Old Testament used by ALL the Christian churches, either entirely or to make Latin versions or help translation from Hebrew to current languages is a Jewish translation from Hebrew. Though most of the Book of Daniel is in Aramaic, which is similar to Hebrew.
The Christian Churches today and over the last 1960 odd years vary in how much weight they apply to things in the OT vs the NT.
Paul, a Jewish Religion expert, wrote in the NT "Christ is a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Greeks" [i.e. Gentiles, pagans, the not Jews]. A large part of the NT is his letters. Also almost nothing in the NT makes sense without Jewish context and the OT writing.