One seems angry and the other loving...
2006-12-09 16:28:20 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Same God----research your dispensation period-once we were under the law-now we are under grace.
2006-12-09 16:31:06 · answer #1 · answered by TS 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
That's exactly what we're studying in my religion class. I think it's at the end of the book of Joshua where he warns the Isrealites that if they follow El Shaddai/Adonai/El/God they need to be careful because he's a jealous God and can do evil. Then in the NT Jesus tells about a forgiving God who will always take his people back if they repent. Another example:
OT: An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
NT: Offer the other cheek
My teachers explanation is that the people of the two time periods saw their God differently. The men who wrote the OT (The priestly writer, the Elohist writer, the Deuteronomist, etc.) saw God as a terrible, jealous God and the NT writers (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John etc) saw God through Jesus as a forgiving and loving God.
2006-12-10 00:36:09 · answer #2 · answered by Ricktasempra 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Same God - Two Covendants
Old Testament Law, and New Testament Grace.
2006-12-10 00:35:21 · answer #3 · answered by n_007pen 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree, the New testament one is amazingly angry and hateful, and the old testament does seem loving.
what I don't understand is how people think its the other way around.
the God of the Old Testament did not, and would not have an eternal hell or eternal punishment, as there is *NOT A SINGLE SIN* that can be commited by a mortal person within a mortal life that would be justly punished with eternal torment.
the new testament one gives the vast majority of people infinite punishment for relatively minor mistakes. how is that not angry and hateful?
2006-12-10 00:32:32 · answer #4 · answered by RW 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
In the beginning God rested from his works. Hence he rested, the OT god is the laws of god at works. As in sow what you shall reap etc. This is why he was demonstrated to be a vengeful god, it was showing the realities of cause and effect. The laws of god swing towards both negative and positive effects. God seemed different in the NT because Jesus presented a pattern to man where he can live in accordance to the royal law instead of against it.
2006-12-10 00:39:45 · answer #5 · answered by Aza 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christianity developed very much indepently from Judiaism in the First Century, then at the tail end, the church leaders tried to link the two together under this two covenant bs.
The whole old testament prophesy of jesus is bs, taking a bunch of verses that the Jews themselves did not look to as prophesy, take them out of context, and then 70 - 100 after the death of Jesus, say look, these are the circumstances of Jesus' birth.
Do you really think that George Washington chopped down the cherry tree.
2006-12-10 00:46:47 · answer #6 · answered by lawman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Both the holiness and love of God are found throughout both the Old Testament and the New Testament.
2006-12-10 00:37:58 · answer #7 · answered by mediocritis 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe it was kind of like a parent who has a bunch of kids. With the first one, everything was sterilized, clothing was changed with the least little dribble. By the time the fourth one comes around, the pacifier gets wiped off on the jeans, the bottles don't get sterilized. The oldest kid had to be perfect. The youngest one gets excused with the old "kids will be kids". The parent simply prioritizes and only has so much they can deal with. They get a babysitter and go away for a weekend.
Maybe the human race just wore Him out. So He threw up His hands and sent Jesus.
2006-12-10 00:36:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They both have many problems and seek to impose they will by violence. It has been said that god created man on his own image, but as many other concepts in the Bible this one is written backward. The truth of the matter is that man creates god on his own image, and a god created by a primitive and violent people could not be any other type of god. The god of the Bible has all the lower humans passions found in very stupid and primitive individuals, this should be an eye opening for the reality and values of that god. It is surprisingly on this time and age to find apparently intelligent people giving heed to such Bibles bull craps. If God is God he should be above all the mud attributed to him in the Bible.
2006-12-10 01:14:20 · answer #9 · answered by Simon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, Jack Sparrow, h.e.l.l.o.o.o....!
Yes they do seem different. This is because the people's understand of God evolved and became more mature. Just like a small child matures in his thinking so does the religions of man. At least this one did. In the NT we have the example of Jesus as God made man to show us the true nature of God. This helped to bring about the change in thinking.
2006-12-10 00:34:49 · answer #10 · answered by tonks_op 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I sure hope they are different! Otherwise whoever wrote the Gospels covered alot about Jesus up. (NOT).
The "angry" God is angry because of a love not returned. He is angry at what sin is doing to stubborn people who refuse to get a clue. NT - people began to get the message you suggest: we have a loving God.
2006-12-10 00:32:01 · answer #11 · answered by Joe Cool 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋