God Is Great, God Is Good: Why Believing in God Is Reasonable and Responsible by Craig William Lane

Author:Craig, William Lane [Craig, William Lane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2010-08-24T00:00:00+00:00

In their zealous preoccupation with the negative in Old Testament ethics, the New Atheists neglect these warm undertones in the law of Moses itself, exemplified in Yahweh’s gracious, compassionate character and his saving action.

Fifth, the Mosaic law contains an inherent planned obsolescence, which is to be fulfilled in Christ. Despite the significant moral advances at Sinai, the law isn’t the final word. A new covenant was promised that would progress beyond the old (e.g., Jer 31; Ezek 36—37). N. T. Wright notes that Torah “is given for a specific period of time, and is then set aside—not because it was a bad thing now happily abolished, but because it was a good thing whose purpose had now been accomplished.”[55] According to the letter to the Hebrews, Jesus brings “substance” to the Old Testament’s “shadows,” fully embodying humanity’s and Israel’s story. Thus, if we stop at Old Testament texts without allowing Christ—the second Adam and the new, true Israel—to illuminate them, our reading and interpretation of the Old Testament will be greatly impoverished. Robin Parry reminds us that if we allow that the Christ-event is part of the plotline, then we are obligated to allow it to “cast its significance back onto our understanding of earlier texts.”[56] If the New Testament brings out more fully the heart of God, then we must not let the “tail” (the Old Testament) wag the “dog” (the New Testament) as the New Atheists commonly do.

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