Belief, NT vs. OT

Through my time now as someone that takes the Bible literally, unless grammatically or contextually told not to by the word, I have witnessed many fools proclaiming to be wise. When the Bible says something that is either hard to understand or supernatural, foolish men devise easy to understand truth or natural explanations. By doing this, they are adding or removing from the truth of the Bible.

Here is a series of questions I would urge you to ask yourself or anyone you know that says they are a Christian. Questions can lead us to answers if we are honest about our opinions on the matters.

Do you believe…

Jesus turned water into wine?

Jesus healed the sick?

Jesus walked on water?

Jesus is God?

Jesus died and rose again for the payment of the world’s sin?

Then, do you believe…

God created the current earth in six days and rested on the seventh?

God flooded the earth and had Noah, his family, and the animals with him survive on an ark?

God parted the Red Sea so Israel could pass through on dry land?

God stopped the sun and the moon for Joshua?

God had a great fish keep Jonah in its belly for three days and nights?

If you answered the first questions without hesitation and without clarification of any sort, then did you answer the second group the same? I have had many conversations where Christians tell me they believe the first 5 questions, but then have to explain away how the second five were either metaphoric stories or the text doesn’t actually mean what it says. For example, the word day in Genesis 1 doesn’t actually mean a literal 24 hour day or Noah's flood was a localized flooding, not worldwide. Why do we have to try and change the Bible when it comes to the miraculous in the Old Testament, when we don’t do the same for the New Testament?

This is very troubling to me for one main reason. The first 5 questions about Jesus are much harder to understand and much more supernatural than the Old Testament questions. God acted in the Old Testament in a very hands-on way and where thousands saw the work of his hands. Jesus was one man, claiming to be something more to only a few and producing miracles that were only seen by small groups. Yet, Christians will believe every word of the New Testament while doubting and scrutinizing the words of the Old Testament. Is not all scripture given by inspiration of God (2 Tim. 3:16)? How can you say with full clarity Jesus is Lord, then doubt the words of scripture?