Is God eternal and unchanging?

Question

Or are there two Gods, Old Testament God and New Testament God?

Did God have some sort of Epiphany when we nailed his kid to a piece of wood and decide to be a nicer God?

Many of these answers seem to overlook the "detail" that the Old Testament God was forever killing people, having fathers give their daughters away to debauchery, and "smoting" untold thousands of innocents, but then the New Testament God actually seems like a nice, ftherly sort of fellow. That doesn't strike me as very consistent!

Freaky event alert! When I posted that comment, I had exactly 666 characters "unused"!!!!!!

Answer 1

Our beliefs are based on the superstitions of many who passed before us.

Answer 2

Yes:
Psalm 90:1-2
1 Lord, thou hast been our dwellingplace in all generations.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

Nobody created God -- He has always existed -- accept that by faith.

Jesus is the creator -- he is God.
John 1:1-3
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

-------Second Question-------
The Old Testament God and New Testament God are the same.
Compare Psalm 23:1
"The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want."
with:
John 10:11
"I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep."



-------Third Question-------
John 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.

Answer 3

According to the Bible God is eternal and unchanging. God was not revealed in totality in the Old Testament, but only as a just and Holy God. In the New Testament Christ revealed a side of God's nature that had not been seen before and that was the mercy of God. In His mercy He is able to forgive and provide union again between God and man. His justice and holiness are still there but tempered by the sacrifice of His Son to provide payment for sin. The Bible says this is marvelous in our sight for those who would be delivered from sin and transformed into those who will inherit eternal life.

Answer 4

Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Joh 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.
Joh 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Joh 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
Joh 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
Joh 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
Joh 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
THE SAME ALWAYS
Heb 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Jas 1:16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
Jas 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

Answer 5

First off, there are not two God's. How you came up with that, I guess we'll never know? Regardless, He has not changed. If your reference to being nicer means that He is not actively disciplining people who sin, or some such...then you would again be missing some key elements.
As scripture states, He is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
However, this assumes that you are actively working to do this. He again stated, "the Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as men count slackness...but is patient, not willing that we should perish.
But consider this scripture..."you have heard it said in times of old how a man was killed, without mercy, on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much more severe should the punishment be for those who have trodden under foot the son of God?"

Consider that He is not changed, but patient with you while you work out your life with Him, and all because of the sacrifice of His son. But if you poo poo that sacrifice off, and live as you want then you basically stomp on all that Christ did. So that final scripture would be for those people.

Answer 6

God is the same God in both places. Look at how many chances He gave to people. Read the Bible to find out how many places in the Old Testament He cried out for His people to return to Him, how He gave them chance after chance. He loves you so much that He ALLOWED His Son to die here just so that you could have the freedom to make the choice to join Him in heaven. He loves you desperately, just like He did the people in the Old Testament. Why don't you give Him a chance?

Answer 7

The Jews had gotten a wrong idea about God that is why Jesus came to show us the Father. John chapter 14:8-9 God's justice demanded sacrifice. If Jesus had not died for our sins Satan could require our blood for our own sins. And God, the Father loved us sooooooooooooo much that He gave His one and only Son to take our place.

Answer 8

Actually, Little One, that is what God ultimately came to earth for.
He took on flesh so that He could walk as a Man among men. He gave the world a chance to know Him as He truly is. He experienced human temptation first hand.
And in the end, He sacrificed that flesh on the altar of our salvation.
Does God change? No. He has always loved His kids.......

Answer 9

The New Testement is the fullfillment of the Old Testement

Throughout the Old testement the Messiah's (Jesus) comming was fortold. Jesus brought "a new a better coventant" which was fortold throughout the old testement.

Hope That helps

Josh K

Answer 10

God didn't kill his kid, Jesus was God (he is a Spirit) in a body of flesh.
2 Cor. 5:19 God was in Christ reconciling the world back to himself.
Col. 2:9 For in him (speaking of Jesus) dwells all of the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

Answer 11

The OT and the NT are based on our limited understanding of God. He seems to change, but the only thing that really changed were our perceptions.

As to your question, to change is to imply that God was defined before. By definition, that is putting limitations on Him. God simply is.