Perhaps the greatest danger of such carelessness is that the believer who enjoys the blessings provided by the New Covenant will lose sight of the majesty of the God who made Himself so powerfully known in the Old Testament. Indeed, the greatest distinctive of the New Covenant is the indwelling Holy Spirit, who ministers to the believer an intimacy with God that would have been unthinkable in the Old Testament. But there is no better antidote for such attitudes than to stand awestruck with the prophet Isaiah before the throne of a thrice-holy God, or to join voice with the sweet psalmist of Israel as he gives praise to the Lord who made heaven and earth, or to trace the narrative of the mighty acts of YHWH as He guards the character of His name in the face of attack by His enemies and carelessness by His people. Without the Old Testament, it is also impossible to correctly understand the unique place God's Chosen People occupy in world history and to understand the Jewish roots of Christianity. Danger awaits a Christian community that so easily takes for granted the grace offered in the New Testament while neglecting the firm foundation of the Old.
Eschatological agnosticism appears to have become the fashion of the day.
Approximately one-quarter of the Bible is predictive prophecy. Clearly, end-times speculation that cannot be supported by Scripture is distracting at best and dangerous at worst. But the remedy for the abuse of eschatology is not to abandon it but to diligently honor the principles of sound, grammatical-historical interpretation. God alone knows the course church history will take during this next millennium. But if these developments continue, it is only logical to assume that doctrinal distinctives will disintegrate further in favor of an increasingly unbiblical unity.