Which reflects the true nature of god better, the old testament or the new?

Question

They say "sometimes new isn't always better." "And if it ain't broke, why fix it?"

Answer 1

Well, being someone who believes that the New Testament is a book of fiction, I'd definitely say the Old Testament. In Deut. 4:2, God says do not add to his word, nor take away from it. In Malachi 3:6, he says that he has not changed. So for the New Testament to emerge and for Him to be portrayed as this totally different, meek, modest, turn-the-other-cheek persona is baloney to me. For example, God tells us what animals can and cannot be eaten in the OT, but Christians today will tell you that in the NT, all that changed. However, God said in more than one scripture that he does not change and neither does his commandments. In the NT, God has changed and so have his laws so that, along w/ other things, makes me believe that the New Testament is a book of lies that was written to brainwash and conform people to a common belief.

Answer 2

Both reflect the true nature of God. In the old testament judgment was swift and complete under the law. In the new testament under grace judgment is put off many times, but there is still a price to pay for sin.

Answer 3

Depends if you're Christian or Jew. The Old Testament God tends to be rather vengeful and gets ticked off rather easily. In the New Testament, where we see God Incarnate in Jesus, we hear of a God who is concerned that we show others the same love and respect we show to Him. I don't know which one is better, per se, but I think the New Testament God is a little easier for modern man to relate to.

Answer 4

They both reflect God's nature. God is unchanging and has not changed since the beginning. He showed both mercy and judgement in both the OT and the NT. The basis for the OT was to foreshadow the coming of His son Jesus, while the basis of the NT was the realization of those pophecies spoken in the OT of Jesus coming. The NT also foreshadows just as the OT the second coming of Jesus. If you truely read the bible you will see that God neither changes in the OT or the NT. He isn't a God of wrath in the OT and a God of mercy in the NT.

Taken from living waters.com to further illustrate my point...

"The God of the New Testament is the same as the God of the Old Testament. The Bible says that He never changes. He is just as merciful in the Old Testament as He is in the New Testament. Read Nehemiah 9 for a summary of how God mercifully forgave Israel, again and again, after they repeatedly sinned and turned their back on Him. The psalms often speak of God’s mercy poured out on sinners.

He is also just as wrath-filled in the New Testament as He is in the Old. He killed a husband and wife in the Book of Acts, simply because they told one lie. Jesus warned that He was to be feared because He has the power to cast the body and soul into hell. The apostle Paul said that he persuaded men to come to the Savior because he knew the "terror of the Lord." Read the dreadful judgments of the New Testament’s Book of Revelation. That will put the "fear of God" in you, which incidentally is "the beginning of wisdom."

Perhaps the most fearful display of His wrath is seen in the cross of Jesus Christ. His fury so came upon the Messiah that it seems God enshrouded the face of Jesus in darkness so that creation couldn’t gaze upon His unspeakable agony. Whether we like it or not, our God is a consuming fire of holiness (Hebrews 12:29). He isn’t going to change, so we had better ...before the Day of Judgment. If we repent, God, in His mercy, will forgive us and grant us eternal life in heaven with Him."

Answer 5

Replace the word Testament with Covenant, and look at it that way. Both reflect the nature of God, but under different covenants with Man. To me however, the New Testament is more important to understand because it is the covenant under which we live now.

Answer 6

Asking whether God is more wrathful because of His actions in the Old Testament or more forgiving because of what He did in the New Testament is like asking whether people are more active because what they do during the day or more tired because of what they do at night.

It is not possible to only consider half of all a person's works and judge them accurately. Especially when you have easy access to all of their deeds.

God is not always merciful. (Just ask any Gamorrean) But God is not always so condemning either. Rather, I believe God is just as passionate about redeeming sinners as He is about squashing them like little bugs.

Answer 7

C. All of the above. It's a composite picture of a whole nature, with different elements shown throughout. If you study only one testament, or only one book, you get an incomplete view of God's nature. By reading both, you find a God who is loving, merciful and compassionate, but who has the capacity to be angry and vengeful, a God who will go out of His way to draw you close but who will not let you go unpunished.

Answer 8

Need both to reflect the true nature of God. One isn't better than the other.

Answer 9

because the Koran believes in each and every of the prophets, it does have similar prophets' thoughts interior the Koran taken from the Bible yet with some ameliorations as to how the thoughts honestly occured. If some human beings might want to be overjoyed to call that plagerism, then they're loose to attempt this. they can believe what they opt for. it gained't replace some thing for the Moslems.

Answer 10

As I have stated many times on this site, the Old Testament foretells, and the New Testament fullfills