Publisher's Synopsis
For many centuries, millions of people who read the Bible consider it to be the word of God. Many readers of the Old Testament and the New Testament believe that God lives in heaven and human beings live on the planet Earth. Genesis 1:1 says, "In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth." Should we ask "where God had lived before he created heaven"? Had he been homeless, and that was why he had to create heaven?
In the Old Testament, we see humans were required some burnt offerings "of a sweet savor, a sacrifice made by fire," and drink offerings. Should we ask, "was God homeless, hungry, and thirsty, and that was why he created heaven, humans, and animals, and required humans to offer burnt animals and drinks"?
Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 3:13-14, "And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ."? What is that "vail" in the reading of the Old Testament? Did Paul also tell us about the New Testament when he wrote in 2 Corinthians 3:6, "Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life"? Is there any difference between "the letter" and "the spirit"? Through these verses, should we read the Old Testament and the New Testament as we read a historical book?
