The Hebrew Scriptures

The New Testament, the multiple narratives of the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth, and the ministries of His apostles subsequent to the Ascension, is the record of the development of a rag-tag Jewish sect into a truly world religion. After many months of effort, and less-than-spectacular results, trying to convince his fellow Jews of the messianic role of Jesus, Paul is challenged to take the message to the Gentiles . . . and achieves success beyond his wildest dreams. But not without great personal sacrifice--indeed, he pays the ultimate price--following in the footsteps of his Lord and Savior.

The Old Testament is the foundation; the New Testament is the superstructure. A foundation is of no value unless a building be built upon it. A building is impossible unless there be a foundation. So the Old Testament and New Testament are essential to one another. As Augustine said:

The Old Testament and New Testament constitute a divine library, one s

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e Christian Biblical Movement, 11). Humanist philosophy is repugnant to fundamentalists and liberals alike. A simple example of the differences between fundamentalist, liberal, and humanist approaches to biblical interpretation can be demonstrated with a look at Genesis 2:21-23, the creation of woman, often viewed as contradictory to the creation account given in Genesis 1 (Cundall, 11): [But no] helpmate suitable for man was found for him. So Yahweh God made the man fall into a deep sleep. And while he slept, he took one of his ribs and enclosed it in flesh. Yahweh God built the rib he had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man. The man exclaimed: "This at last is bone from my bones, and flesh from my flesh! This is to be called woman, for this was taken from man" (The Jerusalem Bible, 6). The fundamentalist interpretation of this event is simple and straightforward: "That's the way the first woman came about because you are reading the world (sic) of God who would not tell stories, nor deceive" (Commentary Notes on the Christian Biblical Movement, 16). A liberal interpreter would find otherwise. The logical interpretation is not one of scientific fact, but rather that "God is
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