Old Testament God???

Question

Vengeful, angry, willing to smite you down with nary a thought.

New Testament God...loving, kind, forgiving.

Reminds me of a hippie.

Same God? If so, why the discrepancy? What brought about the change?

Answer 1

Yes, that kind and loving Christian God sent his own son to die an excruciating death on the cross and then condemned anyone who doesn't "believe" to eternal hell's fire.

I'll take my God of justice, thank you very much.

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Answer 2

one thing of note previous to Jesus coming to live among men God very likely had not experienced what a B it is to b human. Another is I do not so much agree that God was of the personality you state. I think he did prescrib some harsh things but there was something going on you might not be aware of.
Best way to give the picture is this (i think). Imagen you are in your lab and creating say an anti-bacteria bacteria. One cell that will eat all the other bad guys but leave the good cells alone. One day your assistant comes in and because of some perversion he has he does something you told him not to for reasons unknown. The assistant scrapes some of his body cells into you controlled enviroment. For some reason these cells begin to mix with the ones you created and your experament is threatened. Perhaps these living things are viruses or like that. What is the creator person going to do. He is going to try to save his created cells and exterminate the rogue cells. They may look like the created ones but they have a truely disfunctional nature. The creator will take what ever means necessary to exterminate the introduced DNA. Now read numbers at I believe about the 6th chapter. The angels came in and contaminated the creation. If you follow the names given to these offspring they can be traced to those people who God ordered exterminated. First the flood, but one of the wives is given the raphael, this is a form of rapheum (not sure on the spelling) but is one with contaminated DNA. I do not remeber all the names but some are anakim, Raphyum, something starting with E and 2 or three others. It has been 20 years since I did the investigating and I do not remember it all anymore, but what I do remember is that those peoples God seems to have acted harshly towards were of these groups with the faulty DNA. I remember the Amelikites and that many of the Cannanites were of this group.
This is what I came up with when I tried to answer the question you ask. It was a rewarding study from which I learned a lot about God and you have more to start with than I did. Go for it.

Answer 3

G-d in the OT is neither vengeful, angry, or willing to smite you down with nary a thought. if you want more information, look in my yahoo 360 at my latest blog entry which is a copy of an email i received from an orthodox rabbi debunking all of these assumptions.

http://ca.blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-14RDX4k7frF.iGIE6EespWXPvyg-?cq=1

as a matter of fact, i question how the loving "new testament god" who sends most of the human population to eternal torment in hell is somehow kinder than the vengeful "old testament god" who does not, and who simply asks that all human beings live an ethical life.

Answer 4

When Jesus shows up on the scene He mainly focuses on His own people (the Jews). He says, God tells you about these things that make Him unhappy but you ignore their deep meaning and you make laws out of them. You go even further and you stone and kill people for breaking the laws. The point was to make you better, kinder people. How did you mess it up so bad? Of course, I'm generalizing and leaving out deeper points, but you get the idea.

An example: OT - don't work on the Sabbath, keep it Holy. Jesus heals a man on the Sabbath and the religious leaders get all upset saying that He's broken the law. Jesus points out that the Sabbath's original intent was to aid God's people. They were to worship God, but also rest on that day. It was to their benefit, so why would healing a man or benefiting a fellow man be against the original intent of the command.

Does this clear anything up for you?

Answer 5

I'd would say that there's just as much of the opposite characteristics in each as you have listed.
OT God showed plenty of love and kindness.
NT God shows just as much anger, vengeance and wrath.
Why? It's the same God and He is the same yesterday, today and forever.

If you think the New Testament isn't angry at us ALL, you don't understand the nature and message of the Gospel.

Answer 6

we do that . that the Christianity was religion of love their is no doubt.
but the God is the same God, and he is always loving, at least I think, religion is what we make of it, don't you see? we are that in both of them because of the Christies love and peacefulness are the Christians all and always peacefully ? No just lock at the history, even Bodes em the must peaceful of the relegence, has his own history of unjust and hate. Religion's are we.
and we all have our Stinky package to hid or Cary.

Answer 7

He is the same God and he is actually forgiving and loving int he old testament. read it and you will undersatnd. although the bible has a lot of missing things that are not shown to the public.

Answer 8

The writers.

Two things
God was always thoughtful he never did anything rash. Read the old testament

God was always loving and kind. I give you forgiving but time changes everyone maybe he evolved.

Answer 9

Why do you ask me ? Why do't you read both testaments until you have made up your mind one way or the other (you are obviously curious or you would not be on Answers tonight). Thanks for the question and not a vindictive bash.I hope you find your answers - I believe you will.

Answer 10

If I believed in god, I would say that he simply converted from Judaism to Christianity.