Separating the Old and New Testament: A Christmas Story
Why Christmas Is the Fault Line Christmas is often treated as a gentle bridge between the Old Testament and the New. In popular theology, it is portrayed as fulfillment, continuity, or completion. Yet when examined closely—textually, historically, and cosmologically—Christmas does something far more radical. It separates . Not people from people, but worldviews from worldviews . Not Jews from Christians, but law from truth , shadow from light , Sheol from Paradise . The Nativity is not a quiet continuation of an older system.
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Why Christmas Is the Fault Line Christmas is often treated as a gentle bridge between the Old Testament and the New. In popular theology, it is portrayed as fulfillment, continuity, or completion. Yet when examined closely—textually, historically, and cosmologically—Christmas does something far more radical. It separates . Not people from people, but worldviews from worldviews . Not Jews from Christians, but law from truth , shadow from light , Sheol from Paradise . The Nativity is not a quiet continuation of an older system. It is the moment when two incompatible moral cosmologies collide —and only one survives.
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Yasna · Hebrew Bible · Old Testament · New Testament · Bundahishn