While Christianity would be justified in history, its truths could not grow but were simply fulfilled. To the Jewish view of the past the Christians added their own sacred texts. The New Testament, they said, fulfilled the prophecies of the Old. Both Scriptures together were the one God’s revelations not merely for a chosen people but for all mankind. While the Gospels were good news for everyone, they were not history in the Greek sense of inquiry, but were verifications of faith. They were both the end and the beginning. The Christian test was a willingness to believe in the one Jesus Christ
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