Holy Bible Old Testament

The Old Testament contains the history of Israel, God's people. The Christian Bible begins with the Jewish Scriptures. The Old Testament is a collection of ‘Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy’, also known as the Pentateuch, and the enlightening writings of the prophets, both large and small, which provide God's love. There is a significant difference between the various Christian churches in the number of books in it. The Protestant Church accepts the Hebrew Bible but classifies it into 39 books. The Catholics, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church in Alexandria, and the Ethiopian Church consider the Old Testament to be a relatively large group of books. The Old Testament prophecies pointed ahead to the New Testament, and the New Testament writers looked back to the old. Each Old Testament writer was divinely inspired to write what he wrote, expressed in his own words, and yet, across some 60 generations, all of these writers expressed the same ideas that pointed to the coming of the New Testament Messiah and Eternal Salvation.