Questions & Answers - Good News Staff - September 1975

Good News Staff

QUESTION: "I have come to the conclusion that the Old Testament and the New Testament are two histories and beliefs; that the Israelites did not believe in the hereafter, and the people who believed in Jesus (the Christians of the New Testament) did. Please give me your viewpoint." ANSWER: Perhaps you have assumed from Matthew 22:23 (and parallels in Mark 12:18-27 and Luke 20:27) that God had not revealed the truth about the afterlife in Old Testament times. True, in ancient days it was not made as clear as it has been today. That is why the pagans, instead of believing in the resurrection (which is what the Bible reveals) fell instead for the deception of demons which claims that death is just a change from bodily life to disembodied spirit life, and that life itself is never interrupted or ceases. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library