The Old Testament Church is a term used in Christianity to refer to a religious institution, the history of which is described in the Old Testament , as well as part of humanity who lived under the commandments and promises given by God to Moses . Comes from hebrew. קהל is a collection which in the Septuagint is translated as other Greek. εκκλησία [1] - a word that later became the term for the New Testament Community. Accordingly, it becomes necessary to clarify which “church” (εκκλησία) is being discussed in a particular case. The concept is sometimes associated with the so-called " theory of substitution ."
The use of the term "Old Testament Church" is inherent in most Christian denominations: Orthodox [2] [3] [4] , Lutherans , Baptists [5] [6] , etc.
Notes
- ↑ Used there 73 times.
- ↑ Archbishop Nathanael (Lviv) About the Holy Bible
- ↑ Priest Alexander Men. Isagogika § 4. Church and the Bible. Isagogics: the problem of authorship of St. of books
- ↑ Archpriest Stefan Lyashevsky. The Bible and the Science of Creation Part IV. The history of mankind from Adam to Abraham. The original Old Testament Church. Life After the Flood Archived October 20, 2009 on Wayback Machine
- ↑ A. Karev “The Sermon of the Church”, “Fraternal Messenger”, No. 1, 1963
- ↑ Waldron Samuel, “Commentary on the Baptist Faith of 1689”