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Do We Need the New Testament?: Letting the Old Testament Speak for Itself is unavailable, but you can change that!

Do we need the Old Testament? That’s a familiar question, often asked. But as an Old Testament scholar, John Goldingay turns that question on its head: Do we need the New Testament? What’s new about the New Testament? After all, the Old Testament was the only Bible Jesus and the disciples knew. Jesus affirmed it as the Word of God. Do we need anything more? And what happens when we begin to look...

he was not compelled by any factors outside himself. Yet God deliberately let humanity do what it wanted to him, and did so under a compulsion that came from inside himself. It was a compulsion that derived from who he was, a compulsion to be himself. He could not deny himself or be untrue to himself (2 Tim 2:13). By the same dynamic, when we insisted on executing God’s Son, this act also drew forth the ultimate expression of God’s faithfulness and God’s power, in resurrecting Jesus. One might almost
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