Does anyone else enjoy reading the Old Testament more than the New Testament?

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I can’t say that the Old over the New in either of their entirety.

However, the Psalms are my most fav. 🙂
 
I would say I enjoy reading more books of the OT than the New. That is simply because there is more story and narrative in the Jewish Bible. Outside of the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles there really isn’t a story. There are great things in the epistles, but I actually “enjoy” reading Revelation more so than say the Letter to the Hebrews because it is a narrative. Humans are wired to tell stories and I think that is what draws us over and over to the stories in Genesis, Exodus, 1st and 2nd Kings, et cetera.
 
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I would say I enjoy reading more books of the OT than the New. That is simply because there is more story and narrative in the Jewish Bible. Outside of the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles there really isn’t a story. There are great things in the epistles, but I actually “enjoy” reading Revelation more so than say the Letter to the Hebrews because it is a narrative. Humans are wired to tell stories and I think that is what draws us over and over to the stories in Genesis, Exodus, 1st and 2nd Kings, et cetera.
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I think you are right.
 
Rosebud77 said:
No. worth reading OT once then move on to the New Covenant Who is Jesus.

PS I must admit here that it was only when I did a very detailled OT Bible Study OT course having been asked to do so, well on in life, that I realised how many mothers had been involved in the 12 tribes of Israel.

Such was my staid Anglican Sunday School raising… and yes I was shocked and left OT values behind for simply monogamy 🤷
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Same with me, to a T. I tend to find the brutality and inhumanity contained in many of the Old Testament accounts unbearable, though I do enjoy other aspects of the stories. I’ve read the Old Testament once, and only once, cover-to-cover, but there are certain individual books within it that I do read regularly. Psalms is the main one, by far. I’m particularly interested in the idea that some of the Psalms can be used in exactly the same way as the Jesus Prayer, and also the scriptural hints that Christ Himself prayed this way. But beyond that, all of my joy and fascination resides with the New Testament. Not that the Old Testament is necessarily that bad, but in my estimation it most certainly can’t hold a candle to the New Testament. That’s where the action is.
 
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