I don't have a clue why an omnipotent god would feel the need to change his laws and contracts with you, but say he does it again. Say he changes his mind and says:
"I made a mistake with the Jesus covenant. You are all just too nice and tolerant (sarcasm font). From now on I want you to go back to the covenant I made with the Hebrews."
Will you follow? Would you obey the Old Testament word for word, even the parts with animal sacrifice and slaughtering non-believers? If you say no, then why do you still obey some of the laws of the original covenant but not all of them?
2006-07-13 04:31:03 · 10 answers · asked by Lucifer T. Chick 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God doesn't change or make mistakes.
God's ten commandments are perfect and remains to this day until he comes again - no where in the Bible it says that it has changed or done away with. What was nailed to the cross was the Moses law - Deut 31, Col 2. They were against us.
Sometimes God established pacts with individuals like Moses, Abraham, and David, and sometimes with the nation of Israel. The most important covenant of all was set up long before this world came into existence. It was a covenant between the Father and the Son and had to do with the eventuality of sin. Jesus offered Himself there in the vast eternity of the past as the "Lamb slain from the foundation of the world." Revelation 13:8. He agreed to become the atoning sacrifice to redeem man, should Adam and Eve choose to sin.
The terms of that eternal covenant have never been changed or superseded. Although many other covenants have been established through the years, the simple provision of salvation through faith has remained in effect through all ages, for all mankind.
Paul describes that transaction this way: "For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." Romans 8:3, 4.
The word for righteousness is "dikaima," meaning "just requirement" of the law. In other words, because of Jesus' sinless life in the flesh, the requirement of the law can be fulfilled in us. He overcame sin in the same kind of body we have, so that He could impart that victory to us. He will actually live out His own holy life of separation from sin in our earthly bodies if we will permit Him to do so. This is the New Covenant promise for every believing, trusting child of God. And it is absolutely the only way that anyone can meet the requirements of the law: "Christ in you, the hope of glory." Colossians 1:27. "The life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." Galatians 2:20.
2006-07-13 04:37:43 · answer #1 · answered by Damian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question.
Heb 13:8
"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever."
Matt 5:17 (Jesus said)
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them"
Numbers 23:19
"God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?"
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It's not like God got up and changed his mind. There haven't been any commands taken out of the Constitution, but there HAVE been amendments. Jesus was the amendment to the Covenant. He was the last sacrifice ever needed to atone people with God and that's why we don't slaughter any sheep anymore. Now we are called to follow Jesus' teachings so we can make it to heaven.
2006-07-13 11:43:01 · answer #2 · answered by Light 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not know. But as for now, I am taking what is available.
By the way, Bible also said that Jesus will come again, and he will be with me till the end of time.
Thus, if after saying all these, and he changed his mind, I think we can forget about any religion. I will go back to my gangster world, where the gun rules.
Never, it is finished. The work of salvation was done once and for all on the cross.
2006-07-13 11:37:07 · answer #3 · answered by Melvin C 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isaiah 40: 8 "The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever."
Numbers 23:19 (NIV)
"God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?"
1 Samuel 15:29 (NIV)
"He who is the Glory of Israel does not lie or change his mind; for he is not a man, that he should change his mind."
Psalm 110:4 (NIV)
"The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind: "You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek."
Malachi 3:6 (KJV)
"For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed."
James 1:17 (NIV)
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
2006-07-13 11:56:28 · answer #4 · answered by lulu 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is not a corrupt politician. He never made any rule to gain votes or if he feel if i change i will get more 'something'
2006-07-13 11:49:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God makes no mistakes. Oh ye of little faith. He would not give His only son to pay our debts, suffer like He did, just to say oops.
2006-07-13 11:43:10 · answer #6 · answered by hateizmybestfriend 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is generated by my brain. Very often my mind changes, so I just go along with it.
2006-07-13 11:35:43 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God does not change. He is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. There is no "what if".
2006-07-13 11:34:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think because some people like to pick and choose their sins, and what they will be punished for.
2006-07-13 11:36:05 · answer #9 · answered by Agent Double EL 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's never let me down before.
2006-07-13 11:47:16 · answer #10 · answered by lallie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋