ROUGHLY EDITED COPY CUENet AUDIO TRANSCRIPTION DOGMATICS 2 LESSON 6 Captioning Provided By: Caption First, Inc. 10 E. 22nd Street Suite 304 Lombard, IL 60148 800-825-5234 *** This text is being provided in a rough draft format. Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) is provided in order to facilitate communication accessibility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings. *** >> Thank you. You've stated quite clearly that scripture is the primary source for Christology. But that has me wondering: Is the Old Testament different from the New Testament in what it says about Jesus? In other words, can we construct a Christology from the Old Testament? Are certain books of the Bible more important than others for Christology? >> DR. DAVID SCAER: I think it's appropriate, David, that with your name you would ask this kind of question. Because we look upon Jesus as the true David modeled after the first one. Now to these other questions quite specifically -- and that is: Is the Old Testament different from the New Testament in what it says about Jesus? It certainly is. The word Christ -- when we say that Jesus is the Christ, we mean that Jesus is the fulfillment of the entire Old Testament. Without accepting the Old Testament, you could never confess that Jesus is the Christ. What the Christ does and what the Christ is, that's all defined by the writers of the Old Testament. But then comes the question: What is the purpose of the new? If we did not have the New Testament, we would not know that the Christ about which the Old Testament speaks is the person of Jesus. There was a certain anticipation in the Old Testament about Christ. And that is in pious -- pious homes and certain situations, people actually thought that certain historical figures were actually the Christ. They looked upon Moses that way. They looked upon David and Solomon that way. And of course their hopes and expectations were disappointed. As these expectations were disappointed, they were focused into the future. Until Jesus came along who was the perfect fulfillment of all their hopes. *** This text is being provided in a rough draft format. Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) is provided in order to facilitate communication accessibility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings. ***