Is the NT God different from the OT God?

Question

God seemed a lot more loving and acceptable of people other than the Israelites.

Answer 1

no, it is the same God, it's just that there is a new level of revelation in the New Testament....

....kind of like being more intimate and having more inside knowledge in the New Testament, because we now have an intimate relationship with God and, like Abraham, each Christian can reach a level of friendship with God because of His Spirit bringing revelation knowledge......

......I really sort of feel sorry for God in the Old Testament because the Israelites kept turning their back on them......not that Christians don't do that today...getting their focus off track.
It's like a more mature period for God's children. When we are children our parents tell us not to do things, and we do them anyway and we need correction....then when we become teenagers, our parents start to confide in us more of life, giving us more insight to walking out a successful life...things we couldn't have grasped when we were children.

Answer 2

The OT God is the one and the same. The only difference is that in the NT Jesus was sent into the world. The God of old is same God of new. He still accepts people other than the Israelites. But, that doesn't mean he still doesn't pass judgment. He loves all races and etnicities.

Answer 3

Ummm.. Same GOD, different messenger.
In the NT - GOD sends his son JESUS - possibly tired of people killing or not understanding the prophets he sends.
As prophets are people with backgrounds - people can learn where there from and have proof NOT to believe. Prophets have no influence in their home community because people grew up with them, and remember them before their calling. (I mean a boy that was the local prankster is now a prophet - too hard for people to take.)
GOD is unchanging, humans change by the minute. This leads to feelings that man can not understand - so he thinks GOD changed, while all the time it is man that changed. We will never understand GOD, so limit him to our understanding, and cultural bias's; so we are not sinning so much.
If people paid attention better, to what GOD wanted - and not how to get more controlling people OT GOD would be all we know. Of course as humans corrupted the message, GOD grew - what sad? and Jesus was sent/ or volunteered to help us understand GOD again. NT starts after this point.

Answer 4

The NT god is the same concept as the OT god. However the NT is about love compassion and the teachings of Christ, not a variety of texts and semi historical documents brought together in one book like the OT. That is where you get your difference, because the OT documents were written at a variety of different times for a variety of reasons, not necessarily with the intention of linking them all together in one book. Whereas the NT has a common unifying theme and tries to chronologically follow itself.

Answer 5

I don't think that God is different, per se. But the writing of him is really different from the OT to the NT. Let's face it, the bible is man's writings about God. We put human charactrestics onto God that God may not have.

I don't personally believe in the vindictive God of the OT.

Answer 6

The NT God and The OT God are the same.

Answer 7

No, only the "rules of his worship changed."

Instead of being the God of the Jews, he was now the God of Spiritual Jews.

Instead of being the God of the Israelites, he was now the God of Spiritual Israelites.

And instead of requiring circumcision of the body, he now requires circumcision of the heart, meaning an acceptance and loving attitude towards certain things.

Answer 8

What is NT and OT? Anyways, God is and has always been the same, it is people who interpret God differently and therefore choose to do actions based on their own interpretations or agendas etc.

Answer 9

The main difference between the Old and New Testaments is with law. In the Old the law was the only way to righteousness, this proved to be impossible to achieve. In the New God has made provision that is possible. The whole point is that we can never work our way to right relationship with God, so God works righteousness in us. We still have to apply the moral code of conduct, but God is the only one who can restore us to right relationship with Him.

Answer 10

No, God doesn't change because He is perfect and so He cannot change. What does change is the way He relates to mankind over the centuries as He slowly works out his plan to redeem us and to restore this creation to it's original pristine state.

In the OT, God chose one man named Abraham to start a race of people through whom He would reveal himself to mankind. From Abraham came the Israelites and from them came Jesus through whom all nations can be saved.