I just checked the NY Times Best Seller list for novels.
Origin by Dan Brown is the #1 best selling book today.
Let’s do a simple exercise…
If you knew nothing else, and it was declared that the secret to your eternity was in this book called Origin, what would you do?
If someone handed you a copy of this book and said your eternity depends on what is written inside this book, how would you approach it?

Would you start at the beginning and read it all the way through, gleaning information and truth as you go?
Or would you skip to somewhere near the end, and begin reading there?  Would you trust your eternity to whatever you are able to glean from the last 25% of the book?
All that is at stake is your eternity, so what does it matter?

Most people would likely choose to read the whole book, am I right?
Why do people not do this with the bible?
When a person begins “going to church” they are often told to begin reading their bibles in the gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

Here is where I’m going with this…
What if there are important things we need to know in the first 75% of the bible?
What if there are foundational truths in the Old Testament?
What if there are things in the New Testament that cannot be understood in context without first knowing some basic truths established in the Old Testament?

Let’s take a look at a few things.

We are told in the Old Testament that God never changes.
We are told that His instructions for living are forever, for all generations, a perpetual covenant, everlasting.
We are told that His instructions are for both the native-born Hebrew AND for the strangers among them.
We are told that the instructions He gave were for the people present at the time, and for the people not present at the time, all people for all generations.
We are told in the Old Testament that God does not lie and that He does not change His mind.

After Yehova gave His instructions, the prophets throughout the Old Testament all told the people to turn back to and follow the instructions of Yehova.

In the New Testament, Yeshua Messiah taught us that He did not come to abolish the law and the prophets. He teaches the people to follow the will of the Father, which is defined in His instructions, the Torah, the law.
The Apostles follow the Torah, and teach others to do so.

But then…
The Mainstream Christian “establishment” comes along and tells us the Old Testament law is nailed to the cross and is no longer applicable.
They say that the law is done away with, and they establish this ideology based on half the writings of Paul.

This causes some major problems with scripture.
We have to ignore half of Paul’s writings in order to believe this doctrine.
Do we follow “Pro-Torah” Paul?
Or do we follow “Torah-Done-Away-With” Paul?
Peter warns us not to make this mistake in 2Peter 3:14-18.
On his deathbed, Peter wrote to us about misunderstanding some of Paul’s writings.  He says the twisting of Paul’s writings, and the rest of the scriptures [Old Testament is all there was at the time] will result in our destruction if we follow the ways of the lawless.

In addition to Peter’s warning about this, scripture tells us that Yehova does NOTHING without first revealing it through His prophets:
Amos 3:7
Adonai, God, does nothing without
revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.
Do you believe this scripture?
If this is in scripture, then it is true and we cannot ignore it.
And if this is true, please show me where Yehova revealed through His prophets that Apostle Paul would one day change everything about His doctrine.
If Paul was tasked with changing everything, then Yehova would have told us before hand, via the prophets, just as is stated in scripture.
This is a huge problem!!!
The prophets all say to follow Yehova’s instructions, His law.
No prophets says to not follow the God’s instructions, nor does any prophet say this will ever change.

But these are not the only problems of believing Mainstream Christian doctrine.
Their idea that the law is done away with requires God to be a liar.
It requires us to believe that God changed His mind.

Numbers 23:19
God is not a man who lies,
or a son of man who changes his mind! 

Believing that Yehova’s instructions in the Torah are no longer applicable today requires God to be a liar.
He said those commands are forever, for all generations, never-ending, and that they are a perpetual covenant.
He said they are for everybody, not just the Hebrews.
He said they are for the people present then, and for all people not present then.

There is another problem.
If our religious institutions teach today that the law is done away with, then they fail the test of a false prophet.
What does Yehova require of anyone who teaches against His word and is a false prophet?  They are to be killed [in a Torah abiding nation, which will one day come to be again].

Believing Mainstream Church doctrine indicates that you do not understand who Yehova is, and that you do not understand His character.
How can this be remedied?
It is pretty simple.
Read the bible, beginning at the front.
As you progress through the bible, take notes of anything that God says is forever, perpetual, for all generations, or never-ending.  Take notes of the things that God says will never pass away.
Take note of the things that scripture says is truth.
Take note of the things that God says will bring life and blessing.
Take note of the things that God says will bring death and curse.

Continue doing so with the prophets’ writings.
Look at the Psalms and the Proverbs, and take note of the things that are identified as truth, wisdom, knowledge, and are life-giving.

When you have established a solid foundation of knowledge based on the beginning fundamentals of truth, THEN move forward and read the New Testament.
If you understand the things that God said were forever, and were for all people for all generations, and if you understand that He never changes and that He does not change His mind and that He does not lie, then you can understand the New Testament writings within those boundaries.

Your eternity depends on what the whole bible says, not just the last 25% of it.
And you cannot understand the last 25% of the bible unless you read and understand the first 75% of it.