One God - One Way

The Old Testament and The New testament 

What says Christianity? To review special Christian views and practices it seems reasonable to ask the following question: "What is this great picture?" If you are considering extensive painting, you can start paint the details, but you can, keeping far away, to notice all, or, as says the English expression: "to see the forest from the trees".

Jews, Christians and Muslims, like the Hindus, and adherents of Eastern religions (to recognize the cyclical nature of history and that it repeats itself) believe that history is a straight line with a beginning and end. Where Christians come to this position? Many people mistakenly think that
Christians uprooted from the history of Jesus (ISA al masih) and stole the followers of the person who lived 2000 years ago, but had no connection with history before or after him. But it is not done properly and Union with God's plan and purpose. Christians believe that God created people to have relationships with them, and at the beginning, in the days of Adam and Eve. The man and
the woman were not made by robots; they were given free will, but as deceived by Satan they disobeyed God's commandment and lost spiritual relationship with God. Spiritual and physical death entered the world, leading to separation from God and eventually to eternal death.
The situation continued to deteriorate to such an extent that God destroyed all through the flood and resumed relations with Noah and his family. Sin, however, continued to dominate, as seen in the incident with the tower of Babel (Genesis Chapter 11). In light of these big cosmic events such as the fall of man and the scattering of people the world after the tower of Babel (Genesis 3 — 11), God set in the effect of Its recovery plan, to bring blessing and salvation to all humanity.

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Abraham and the people of God

Abraham was elected, and after his family grew up in the nation Israel, put the Foundation, which was to prepare the world for the coming blessings and salvation. God entered into a special, sealed the agreement communication with His people and through Moses (Musa) and Joshua led the people out of Egyptian captivity through the wilderness into the promised land. All this is recorded in the Bible (Kitab al Muqaddas) and in the part known as the Old Testament, discovered some principles which help to show that there is not only one God, but also the only way to Him. For example,
through the history of the nation of Israel identified the following principles:
1. People are full of sin and separated from God and are under deserved condemnation to be punished for their sins.
2. There is nothing that people can do, such as good deeds to deserve the adoption of God.
3. But God in His mercy has provided for the principle of sacrifice so that "sinless" animal replaces all the sin of the individual, and this leads to forgiveness.
4. God gave the law through Moses that His people knew how to live the people of God.

God singled out priests, representing His people and brought sacrifices to the altar in the tabernacle (the temporary structure, installed in the desert for worship) or in the temple later built by Solomon. 

God also sent prophets, represented Him, and who carried the Word of God to His people. After great leaders, like Moses and Joshua, became known to the other leaders-judges, and then put the kings to lead the people of God. Despite all this, the people wanted something better and perfect.
Repeated failures in the Affairs of the people, or some of its leaders encouraged change. Therefore in the old Testament many references to the coming of the being as the Messiah (al-masih, the Anointed one, or Christ). Moses spoke of the coming of the special prophet; there was expectation of a perfect high priest, who will live forever, and in light of the insolvency of the kings, the promises of God's perfect the king, whose reign will also be eternal.
In the old Testament, God had great limitations and obstacles, and due to constant failures and mistakes there were also the need for people to change themselves. So, in the old Testament there is mention of the upcoming new contract which, among other blessings, includes the perfect sacrifice for sin, and a new temple — a meeting place and an outpouring of the spirit of God for all believers, entailing a change of the human heart. For this reason the Bible is divided into two parts: the old Testament (Ahd al-Kadhim) and the New Testament (Ahd al-Jadid), where the word "Testament" means "contract".
Therefore, summing up the hopes of the old Testament, people were expecting:
• perfect prophet, priest, and king,
• perfect sacrifice for sins,
• new contract
• the new Church
• internal change of all believers by God's Spirit.