Does God evolve with humans?

Question

If we look at some barbaric acts done in the name of God in the past, and feel disgusting, and say "God wouldn't act like that", how do you know God isn't just evolving along with humans?

For example, we look in the old testament and see things we wouldn't believe God could command, then we fast forward to now, and have a totally different moral standard. Does this mean God is only as moral as humans at the time, or does this mean Humans will keep evolving until they have perfect understanding of God?

Answer 1

God doesn't evolve, but His connection to us does.
For example, in the Israelitish church He was often angry and simply commanded the people to do things. The church was not ready for a more complex relationship because they were still like children. When Jesus came to earth He taught more because the people were ready for a more advanced connection.

Answer 2

The character in the human drama that is called "god" evolves with the ones telling the fairytale. Once upon a time humans believed that god was good and evil, simultaneously capable of great creation and terrible destruction. As we evolved we could no longer rationalize that concept, hence the need for a separate "evil" deity. God is a psychological externalization of our "goodness" and the devil is the externalization of our "badness". Humans will most definitely keep evolving and one day we will realize that there is no god except that which is within ourselves, the good and the bad. At that point we will become responsible for ourselves and we will be truly free.

Answer 3

God is the same now, today, yesterday, forever...the one thing people CANNOT understand is eternity. Our finite, small brains cannot begin to imagine that something (or Someone) has ALWAYS been present throughout all time. Our brains aren't perfect, and have limits, so we demand that everything must have a beginning and end, like our short little lives. God doesn't change, and He has always been here. The New Testament is different because God looks at us through the eyes of Jesus. If we were to approach God without Christ, we would burn up, like the sacrifices on Mount Sinai.

Answer 4

The fact that humans with finite understanding have trouble wrapping our brains around what God does and Who He is doesn't mean in the slightest that there's anything wrong with God. We are told in the Bible that God is love. We are also told of the things He's done. The fact that we can't reconcile the two doesn't mean He doesn't make sense. It means WE can't make sense of what He does. Our understanding of what love really means is so shortsighted and tainted that we can't understand how a loving God could do some of the things He's done. It just means we don't fully understand what love is, because obviously love can do some things that don't fit our limited definiton of it.

Answer 5

The old testament is Jehovah, different character than the God of the new testament.
God doesn't evolve, the human interpretation of his fictional behavior changes based on the group doing the interpretation and their needs.

Answer 6

That is a good question. I would think that if there is a supreme being that created the universe in all of its diversity would be beyond evolving. I think evolution is a plant and animal trait.

I would think God made evolution itself so that beings can adapt physically to changing environments.

Remember all holy documents were in fact written by man. Man's concept of an acceptable society has changed radically throughout time.

Answer 7

God is the same yesterday today and forever - If God ever changed then so would his promises and therefore God would be a liar - because He says by His own revelation I do not change - God is immutable! Our eternal hope and reward is based on it - lose that and there is no need for salvation, no need to read the Holy Word of God, to believe and come to ask for the forgiveness of sins, through the meritorious sacrifice of Christ.

Answer 8

God doesn't change. He is the same "yesterday, today and forever". However, the three facets of God's personality are different. I call them "facets" because that is how I describe what most people call the Trinity. I see each facet of Him as having a slightly different "flavor".

God the Father, the Creator and Everlasting Judge of All The Earth - commanded things of the Jewish people that most of us would not want to do now. The act of killing lambs and painting their blood on the thresholds of our doors is not an appealing picture. But it does symbolically point to the next introduction of His Personality. In that facet He is referred to as "The Son" because God compressed His personality into a human form and sacrificed Himself for mankind, knowing that mankind could never live up to God's original, high expectations. But you see, that was the plan all along - before creation.

In the act of sacrificing Himself for us He literally met all the expectations necessary to fulfill the balance of right and wrong in the universe. The shedding of blood was necessary, so Jesus Christ came as a "sacrificial lamb". Many symbolisms in the Old Testament point to His coming as the Lamb that was slain for mankind's sin (failure to meet God's expectations).

I don't believe that we do have a "totally different moral standard". I believe the Ten Commandments are just as applicable now as they were back in the days when the "Israelites" were wandering in the desert.The Bible says that Christ came to "fulfill the law".

The third aspect of God's Personality, The Holy Spirit, (Ruach Ha Kodesh) was the one He left with us when He was taken up into heaven. This is actually God's "Spirit", His personality unleashed into a form that can be everywhere and with and in everyone (who wants Him) at the same time. Nowdays God is pouring out His Spirit upon everyone who sincerely wants Him and who will submit themselves to Jesus Christ, the Son portion of His Personality.

Human beings who do submit themselves to the life-changing and personality-changing effects of a relationship with The Living God, no matter which of the three phases of His personality they focus on first, do in a sense evolve into different beings than they started out. They become new creatures. The scriptures promise that these same individuals will at some future point in time also have their physical bodies transformed into an invulnerable and eternal yet physical body just like Christ's after His resurrection. This body could not die but could walk through walls. It could eat but yet be amazingly whisked from one point in space to another (teleportation). The Bible promises that Believers in Christ Jesus will also have these quintessential bodies. I would say that this is one kind of "evolution". This is not what most people think of as evolution, yet it truly will bring the so-called human race to a much higher level than the one in/on which they currently live.

It will only happen to those who are wise enough to choose the Living God and have the "doorposts of our hearts" spiritually cleansed by the Blood that was shed by the Lamb that God provided, as Abraham predicted centuries before that He would. And yes, in those new bodies they will have a much greater understanding. The scriptures say that now we only understand as though we are looking through a shadowed window or mirror. But when we see Him face to face, we will understand so much more.

Answer 9

"For I am the LORD, I change not." Malachi 3:6 God does not change. He is the same in the New Testament as He was in the Old testament.

Answer 10

No. God has no need to Evolve at all.

His final law was laid down 2,000 years ago and there is no need for anymore. Its just silly to believe that God COULD evolve, being that he made himself perfect.