The old testament and new testament are entirely different selections of scrolls. There isn't anything to "leave out" it is an arbitrary collection of scrolls. The catholic church decided what "the bible" was going to be in the late 300s AD I believe? Somewhere around there they had meetings and made it.

Anyways,  the old testament is pretty much translated tanakh to my knowledge. The torah for example is like genesis, leviticus, and a few others.

Christianity pretty much uses the same texts as jews do, just slapping it all into "old testament" and saying "new testament" means they don't have to live by the barbaric ways described before. 

Basically, sacrifices got too expensive for people to cleanse their sins. This same thing happened in other areas. The result ends up finding an excuse to not have to sacrifice anymore for "purification".

It became too much a hindrance to society, so society failing to find an adequate way out made one. Tadah. Religion 101 was a fun class.

Now lets punish some some people for sodomy and check to see what the going rate of slaves are according to the holy lawbook of our desert tribe.

Yeah those are all in the scrolls jews use, or the christian "old testament".

I don't recall what sections they are from. I have forgotten a lot of specifics, I used to have whole sections memorized. Required by the school I went to.

So useful I forgot it as soon as possible to clear space in my head for more useful things. Like pirate metal.

Sweet. Now more shall know of Alestorm.

I personally prefer this song.

Cant say im a fan at all, just saw a good oppertunity to go off topic and get a chuckle in

(And if anyone dares post anything with johnny depp, i WILL kill you... slowly )

The New Testament is an extension of the OT. It is entirely based on the OT.

Christians dismissing the OT (except quoting their favourite bits) are hypocrites. You can't just ignore the OT and claim that the NT is fact.

That is like going "gee, this penthouse is great" and ignoring the fact it is built on a slum building with crumbly foundations,

or putting pretty icing on a mouldy cake to cover it up.

Same God, same crap

some posts on this forum in other topics might fit here, too.

´Jesus deliberately fulfilled some prophecies´ for example shows the connection between the old and new testament.

although the word testament means something like contract or covenant, the parts of the bible are mostly separated based on time and history (before and after Jesus with a 400 year gap in between).

The whole thing of the Messiah being the only way to heaven was implied by the old testament - according to the new testament writers. This must be true, since the Jews are still expecting a Messiah, so something must be written about him in the Jewish bible.

About the tri-une god or monotheism.

there are some passages in the old testament that assign more than one ´form´ to God. There is the Angel of the Lord, kind of impersonating God himself, for example in the burning bush of Moses. also when Abraham has three men visiting him, one of them turns out to be the LORD himself. In the story of creation it says ´let US make people´. Theologians now say that this phrase of ´Hear Israel, the LORD, your God is one´ means that he is one of spirit, i.e. he agrees with himself, rather than one being. In this case, God, Jesus and Spirit form one being together similarly to soul, body and spirit.

One big theological difference between the Jehova´s witnesses´ bible and the other ones is that the passage in the NT were it says that God and Jesus and holy Spirit are one and thus all ´god´, is left out. Jesus was no god according to Jehova´s witnesses.