OT- Mankind in their younger years God saying "No don't do that, hey get outa there, hey stop that, no don't hurt her, get off of that, quit bothering him, hey!
Ok we have learned like a 6-16 yr old kid what harms people and what not to do
NT-Gods greatest command "...Love God, love others as you would yourself..." Now you are post teen or adult, God tells us love and live. We are able to govern our lives according to love, knowing from the OT or our younger years what harms another.
What is your take on the OT/NT in relation to each other as far as how God dealt with His people?
2006-07-19 11:30:40 · 14 answers · asked by AlwaysLaughing 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The command of love was already given. Mark 12:29-30 is a direct quote of the command given in Deut 6:4-5 "Hear O Israel the L-RD thy G-d, the L-RD is One, and you shall love the L-RD thy G-d with all your heart, soul and strength."
Likewise the command of Mark 12:31 is found in Lev 19:18, to love your neighbor like you love yourself.
All the other commands are commentary on how to carry out these two commandments properly. Now, of course we have to realize that most people will reject the Divine Instructions on how to carry out these two Commandments and will try to make it up as they go along.
Likewise, when they read "If you love Me, keep My Commandments", they will generally respond with "I'm not under the law!" And with that attitude they will then reject the Commandments thereby showing that they don't love Him.
In fact some will go so far as to claim that monotheisim is false and that the universe in polytheistic in nature. They would claim that there is a "new testament god" and an "old testament god" and that these two gods are at war with each other. This is proven false by the quotation in Mark 12:29 "the L-RD thy G-d, the L-RD is One". There are not 2 gods, 3 gods or a family of gods. There is only One - the Holy One of Israel - the same yesterday, today and forever. No changing of rules or anything from the foundation of the world onwards.
To claim that men of recent history are somehow more mature is questionable at best. Think about how WWII Germany (a "Christian nation") acted. Sure, the "law was our schoolmaster", however, think of a pilot who is now out of flight school. Is he now free to reject all the rules he learned in flight school? If so, then we are all in grave danger.
2006-07-19 11:35:41 · answer #1 · answered by Daniel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
After Moses lead the children of Israel out of Egypt, there certainly seems to be an element of dealing with mankind as though they were naughty children. In fact, in the New Testament we learn that God gave the children of Israel the Mosaic law as "a schoolmaster to lead them to Christ." They had to be given strict rules and follow the letter of the law because they were not capable of being governed by the higher law.
Often overlooked in this, however, is that there were a couple of thousand years before Moses. How did God deal with his people then? Well, pretty much the same way he dealt with them after Christ. But because the people from the time of Moses until Christ occupies so much of the Bible we get a little bit of a distorted view of the Old Testament times and the people after Adam.
2006-07-19 11:40:47 · answer #2 · answered by Doctor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think we still act too much like a kid but expect God to treat us as adults. I love the New Testament, and I prefer reading that over the Old Testament, but there are many good lessons in the OT that we shouldn't forget, even though we (humanity) are assertedly spiritual adults.
2006-07-19 11:38:12 · answer #3 · answered by amberaewmu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OT, God treated his people the same way as NT. The law is still there, when Jesus said to love your enemies, it was a rebuke to the social order the pharisee had created. God never told them to hate anyone in the OT. The only difference is the NT tells us that God had showed us in the OT that faith and obedience to God is what saves you, not the law.
2006-07-19 11:36:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
WE ARE TO FOLLOW THE NT,Joh:3:16: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Joh:3:17: For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
WE LIVE BY GRACE,AND NOT THE LAW.THERE ARE SOME OF THE OT THAT APPLIES TODAY.JESUS CHRIST IS LIFE
2006-07-19 11:37:24 · answer #5 · answered by flindo61 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no difference in the way God wants us to act. He states His position and desires us to come into line with it.
In the Old Testament, God promised that the Messaih would come to save His people. In the New Testament, Jesus came to save mankind.
The "relative truth" spiritual movement is just as false as all the other religions invented to take us to destruction.
God was. God Is. God will be.
2006-07-19 11:38:27 · answer #6 · answered by steve 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the OT, God dealt with man in a much more direct manner.
2006-07-19 11:34:28 · answer #7 · answered by ShineOnYouCrazyDiamond 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My take on the OT/NT differences is that they exist because the various books were written by different people many many years apart None of them were divinely inspired.
2006-07-19 12:04:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clearly from different times/cultures. The two books together are a TOTAL mystery (who wrote them, why, etc).
Do you believe that the bible is the 'Word of God'? I've got too many questions and have a hard time just taking the Pope or Billy Graham's word for it...
2006-07-19 11:40:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
OT/Revelations - Vengeful blood-thirsty god who ruled through fear.
NT - A wise man named Jesus and a bunch of idiots not up to the task of understanding him, let alone follow his lead.
There's no relationship between the god of the OT/Revelations and Jesus of Nazareth.
2006-07-19 11:36:26 · answer #10 · answered by bobkgin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋