How can God change?

Question

as most christians know, in the old testament, God was a vengeful and wrathful God. We also know that in the new testament through the sacrifice of his son, he became the loving and benevolent God....If God is all knowing, all powerful.....how is it that he changed? He couldn't have learned compassion because he is all-knowing......He also can't really change because he says that he is the constant....the alpha and omega, beginning and end...So if our God 'changed' would that disprove him to be all-knowing??? this question was presented to me and I'm just curious to see the response of others

Answer 1

The old testament only showed half of Gods being. The other half was revealed when the other half of His Word was revealed.
God has always had these sides but the loving God was only revealed when there was a sacrifice pleasing to the Lord, Our Lord Jesus.

Answer 2

Who says God changed? God is just angry with sin today as He was then. God loved and provided for His children 40 years in the dessert as He cares for His children today. God healed in the Old Testment as He does in the new testment. Read the 41st chapter of Isaiah to see how He personally cared for and loved His children as He does in the New testment. God forgave sin in the old testament as he does in the new testamen read Psalm 51. It's an urban legend perpetuated by those who have not read both the old testament and the New testament that God was only "Vengeful and wrathful" in the Old Testament, and it stumbled you because you obviously have not read all the books of the Old Testament or you would see the truth of what Jesus said when He siad, "Think not that I am come to destroy the Law and the prophets, I am not come to destroy but to fufill" The lie goes somewhat like this: God is different in the Old Testament and the New Testament, therefore the Bible contradicts itself--therefore it is not reliable or true--therefore I don't have to obey it --let's party! and you wake up 20 years later hagared, burned out empty, divorced, fighting disease or addiction you name it. "The wages of sin is death and " be not deceived, God is not mocked, for whatsoever a person sows, that shall he or she also reap."
-Spec

Answer 3

You have Pictured God in the Old Testament as vengeful and wrathful. I can only guess you were led to read many incomplete chapters of the Book and was told there is all you have to know. Read it from the beginning and you will find reasons to whom and why he is angry and wrathful. Then read about his declarations on Deuteronomy 24:16, Ezekiel 18:3-4, Ezekiel 18:20 and Ezekiel 18:26 then finally read Ezekiel 18:32. With that you will see that Jesus DOES NOT NEED to die for anyone's sins. Read also Numbers 23: 19 to see if if God can change His mind. After that, Read again Book of Matthew 15:24 where Jesus said he came only for the lost sheep of Israel then follow it up when he also said in Matthew 5:17-20 that he came to fulfill the law and not to abolish it. but what was the things that he did? He reduced the Ten great Commandments to two, He defied the Sabbath Observation and claimed to be the Lord of Sabbath and then he altered all the teachings about eye for an eye and tooth for tooth with giving the other cheeks when one side is slapped or go another mile if you ar asked to go one mile. Did you see why we have more criminals inside our prison cells because of those changes? It was not God who changed the law it was Jesus whom people mistook him for God the Son and now being mentioned in many rituals as if he is God now. What about his warning to his disciples that many will come in his name (Jesus) and say that he is the Christ and also that many will say the end is near. Are they not the many Christians churches we have today and talking about the end of the world? Matthew 13:5-8
Then on Matthew 3:23 He even made a sample about a divided kingdom that will not stand. Isn't Christian religion a divided believers of the kingdom of God? Muslims are slowly and dangerously following the footsteps of the Christians because they included Christ in their faith. It is not God who changed, it is the greatest deception that led us to this question you raised.

Answer 4

God didn't change. He was merciful and loving in the Old Testament (OT) as well. Make no mistake, He is still vengeful, too. I don't even want to think about the torment endured by those who reject Him. People who say He changed obviously don't understand the program that God is working. He loved people (OT) so much that He promised to send a Messiah to free them from their sin. Does that sound vengeful? Let's go through a short list of God's attributes, shall we: Holy (loves righteousness), just (hates sin, must punish it), loving (offers to save everyone), longsuffering (puts up with unbelief and rejection for a long, LONG time). God chose to work with people different ways at different times.

Answer 5

I don't think God changed, He did show compassion in the old Testament also. He showed great compassion to David, and Rahab, and Abraham. It may seem that He was more wrathful in the old Testament but what He was doing was giving out consequences for people's sin. He no longer had to do that once Jesus came because Jesus was the penalty for our sins.

Answer 6

The Holy God has never changed. God sees Adam and Eve and us today at the same time because time does not exist with God. He IS the Great I AM. Not I was or I will be but I AM.

I guess I should withdraw my answer after reading that of Seeker because he said it much better than I. But I will stay.

Answer 7

Love, do some research. if you want to get technical the old testament was written before there was a christianity and the new testament has been grossly edited.
http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/nicaea.html
In short, the Bible was written by mortals just like us, we are prone to screwing up, getting details wrong, and deciding we don't like the way something sounds after the fact. Believe what is in your gut. He is in your heart, not in a book.

Answer 8

God didn't really have to change..

Just like people, sometimes we are vengeful sometimes compassionate, but we are still the same person none the less.

I don't think I understand the question..

Answer 9

The previous testomony is there to instruct us Jesus is coming. the 1st 4 books of the hot testomony talk approximately Jesus arriving and His existence - the the rest books talk approximately His return. God is often in can charge - He created guy - it would be illogical for guy to rule God. God has not replaced - he's persevering with.

Answer 10

It is not that God changed just the people who wrote it changed.