Why does Moses have an angry God and Jesus have a loving God?

Question

October can you elaborate?

Answer 1

Their environments were better manipulated by the God of their time. Each had a different agenda. As we all do, thus God is different to each of us.
My agenda is to teach people to live a good life through reason, so my version of God is no existent. No need for one. Creating one would sacrifice reason, thus not supportive..

Answer 2

That is pretty simple. God revealed three major books, Torah, Gospel, and Quran if you believe in it as I do. The old testament is basically the direct words of God with some revision by the Jewish people. The Gospel was based on recollection and interpretation much being in the narrators own words, much being influenced by the writers own opinion or desires. Furthermore, the words of Jesus reflect his soft spoken personality. That is why the old testament tends to be more course in language. However the mercy and love for all man kind in the old testament does balance if you read it as a whole. Hope this helps and you research further objectively.

Answer 3

It's the same God, just in a different time period. The God of the Old Testament was distant. Today you'll hear of people having an "intimate relationship with Christ." That didn't happen back then, because it wasn't possible. Jesus hadn't come yet. That's why you read about all the animal sacrifices happening in the Old Testament. When people went to pray to God, they had to purify themselves. Blood was symbolically cleansing. The death of Jesus essentially eliminated the need for that. He was the final one, and the sacrifice for all of humanity. It's only through Him that we know God. People in the Old Testament related to God on a more national scale, as opposed to personally. They prayed to God to protect their countries, etc. But the entire Old Testament is leading up to the arrival of Jesus. It's the story of redemtion and love. You can email me if you have more questions: [e-mail]

Answer 4

God had shown great patience with the Israelites and even made a covenant with them as His chosen people but time and time again they broke their part of the covenant and returned to the worship of idols and God was angry that they would not trust in Him, later after the Jews returned from exile in Babylonia the Jewish leaders had corrupted the Torah and and turned away from Gods commandments, they also corrupted the Torah into the Babylonian Talmud and it was this that had a corrupting influence on the nation.
even Jesus showed his anger at the corruption of the Sanhedrin and especially the Pharisees at times calling them a brood of vipers for leading the poor classes of the Jews away from Gods laws made to Moses, it was these poor Jews that drew the love of Jesus so much because He felt so sorry for the way they were managed by their corrupt leaders, Jesus loved the poor and the lowly and reserved His just anger for those who would lead them astray.

Answer 5

I'm sorry, but I don't see the God of the Old Testament as being an angry God. I see Him as a righteous God who went to great lengths to uphold and deliver His people even though they rebelled on a regular basis. God is patient, but even God has a point when He has to eventually punish the iniquity of His creation.
God is the same, yesterday and forever. We see Him differently because we see the history of the Old Testament over a period of thousands of years. The history of the New Testament is quite short.
If you look at the God of the Book of Revelation, you will still see a God who has patiently looked for His people to repent from wickedness and return to Him. Also, you see the Christ (Jesus) more in His role as King and not the "sheepish" figure thought of by many.

Answer 6

Jesus talks about the same God, the God of Moses. You can't read the New Testament and miss that. The Old Testament talks about God as loving and compassionate and at the same time, demonstrates God's holiness and wrath against sin. Jesus came "not to abolish the Law, but to fulfill it."

The New Testament explains how Jesus (God the Son) came to bridge the gap between sinful man and holy God. The Law that God gave to Moses made plain to us that we cannot, in and of ourselves, keep all of the Law and thereby make ourselves holy. Jesus was the sin sacrifice for our sin, fulfilling the Law and making it possible for sinful man to live in the presence of holy God.

The Old Testament talks about God's plan to redeem sinful man. The New Testament fulfills that plan. Same God.

Answer 7

The old testament is one of law and the new testament is one of grace. The death of Christ ushered in a new testament. Heb. 9:16

Moses and Jesus both have the same God. (Jesus claimed to be God, but that's a whole 'nother subject.)

Most of the law in the OT related to stuff like bury your feces and wash your hands before you eat. There were the religious observances, such as all the sacrifices. These are because God requires blood/death as punishment for sin. "And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission." Heb. 9:22

Most people don't realize that while Jesus walked as a man on earth, both he and John the Baptist preached repentence. It was the first recorded word of both of their ministries. In Matthew 12:34, Jesus even calls some Jewish leaders vipers. Quite the rebuke!

So if the law required death, why can the testament of Jesus be based on Grace? (In the terms of your question, why is God now a loving God?) It is because "For he (God) hath made him (Jesus) to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him."

When Christ died on the cross, it was God exacting the penalty for sin. For those that believe in Christ, the penalty for sin is already paid and we have grace.

The law is still in effect for those who do not believe in Jesus and there will still be a judgement day. Anyone who says 'God is love' but does not say that he is still a God of righteousness is sadly mistaken. There's an awful lot of references to hell in the new testament.

(Good answer, happygirl)

Answer 8

Jesus was at least smart enough to see a god like Moses' god was not worth worshiping

Answer 9

They imagined their god's differently. And even then, the early Christians had at least a hundred different interpretations of god. Some even believed that the god of the old testament (the creator of the world) was evil and made this place to trap our spirits and it was the goal of Christ to help us escape this god. I could go on forever on this subject but I'll leave it at that.

Answer 10

Dear ama,

First of all, Jesus Christ is God. Second of all, God does not change! Try reading 2 Peter3 or Revelation. "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever." (Hebrews 13:8).