How come God and Jesus are so different?

Question

K, clarifaction when I say God I mean the Old Testament God.

God: Jealous, kills many, many people, including two for burning the wrong incense, including all of humanity except for Noah and his buddies.

Jesus: Compassionate. Helps those that don't believe. Resurrects at least a couple of people, even though God never did. Isn't a stickler for rules and set guidelines.

If you've read the bible, I don't have to spell it out for you, the God Moses and others speak of has almost the exact opposite charcterisitcs of Jesus.

If God is never changing (I'm sure that's in the bible somewhere) how come he's so different when he comes down as Jesus?

Answer 1

well being a trinity im going to assume the 3 are 3 different sides of god. where God is murderous, jealous and angry, Jesus is his alternate, loving and compassionate where the holy spirit is forgiving and merciful?

LOL hell if i know. in my opinion the bible doesnt make any sense anyway. preaches not to kill yet god tells his "chosen" people to kill. says not to lie, but the bible says god sends delusions so that people will believe lies (which is lying itself). bible says god is loving and compassionate yet her commands people to be stoned, murdered, raped.

i think its a perfect book to justify (or condemn?) anything u want.

Answer 2

Jesus said, I and the Father are One. He also said, I come that you might have life and have it more abundantly. He came to show God-Love. The God you read about in the Old Testament is a vengeful and jealous God. That same God sent Jesus, His only Son, to be a sacrifice for the people on Earth, because God saw that the people on Earth would not turn away from their sins. And God so loved the World that He gave His only begotten Son that they might have life through the sacrifice of the Savior, Jesus.

When a person accepts Jesus as their Savior, they are forgiven their sins, for Jesus paid their debt by dying on the cross. God allowed his Son to be sacrificed for those who want to be in Heaven when this life in human form is ended. Not in streets of gold or other human riches, but in the Light and Love will those spirits abide, eternally. BLESS YOU FOR THE QUESTION.

Answer 3

God - The Father - The Creator
Jesus - The Son - The Redeemer
The Holy Spirit - The Enabler - The Pneuma

All God - All part of the Trinity - Three in One

By the way, God raised Jesus from the dead.

Answer 4

Because Jesus is and was the word of God made flesh.He showed Gods attitude of love for man kind that was from the beginning with Adam,that is why Jesus is called the second Adam.
The word says the wrath of God is on the children of
disobedience and that has always been why Gods anger has been shown.

Answer 5

I hear ya. I have wondered that myself, it almost caused me to avoid God. He still scares me. I don't want to be this way, because some where inside I feel that God is good, I mean the OT God, who is the same today, but we live under grace. Thank God. So what I am doing is listening to a radio program called "Thru the Bible" with an old pastor, named Dr. J. Vernon McGee. www.ttb.org. they will give you the times and stations he is on in your area. This ministry is world wide now. He explains the bible in simple language. He just finished Leviticus and will be going in to Luke starting tomorrow, then he will bounce back to the OT. I want to learn about the God of the OT because He is still around and we need to know about Him. One thing I have discovered is He is faithful to His covenant with Abraham, in spite of the Jews screwing up so much, He still in the end spares them. God Bless and I hope we both discover a God we love and understand better.

Answer 6

God was executing justice,reason why there were such punishment as relayed in the Hebrew scriptures. As you may have read the people killed were those opposing him or harming his chosen people.

Remember too that the Bible refers to the Son as “the image of the invisible God.” (Colossians 1:15) Yes, even as a human son may closely resemble his father in various ways, this heavenly Son reflected his Father’s qualities and personality.

So as you describe Jesus, his Father is the same.

But please do not be confused, when Jesus came down to earth as a man, God, his Father is up there in heaven, as Jesus was praying to him...God the Father,during Jesus' baptism spoke and said, "This is my son, to whom I am pleased..."

Answer 7

God is a simplicity. By that I mean that God is simply one - there can be only one God (supreme being) and God cannot be divided. Christians believe (and I am one of them) that God is one and trinity - that there is one divine nature and three equal persons in the godhead.

The history of revelation (which started with creation and continues to the present and is ongoing) is a gradual process in keeping with the nature of God and human nature - limited to the capacity of a finite creature to understand the infinite.

The bible (old and new testaments) is part of this revelation and also an interpretation of it. I believe it to be an inspired interpretation (allowing for human influence and not 'dictated' by God).

All of the relevations of God are partially understood but that is not to say that God is always 'drip-feeding' us. I believe Jesus (truly human and truly God - 2 persons, one human and one divine but with one nature) is the full revelation of God but my understanding is limited and evolving.

You may be familiar with the story of blind people examining an elephant and coming away with very different impressions depending on the part of the elephant they examined - all were true to their own experiences but, even taken together, gave only a partial impression of what an elephant truly is.

All creation's experience of God is true (to the extent that it is properly interpretated/understood) but each experience is limited and reveals only a small part of a greater reality which cannot be fully understood.

'Change in God' is our discovery of other aspects of an infitite being. God's wrath is God's justice; God's justice is God's mercy; God's mercy is God's love. God is one.

Anyway, that's an abridged version of my current understanding and hopefully it goes some way to answering your question.

Answer 8

I have often wondered that myself and I'm a strong catholic.
I have pondered that and think that he has changed and grown like the church has. He can do whatever He wants He's God after-all. But I believe his mercy is greater now then in the old test for His children suffer greatly at the hands of Satan and his evil spirits.

Answer 9

He didn't come down as Jesus. He was born. Jesus is the son, God is the Father.

Answer 10

Yea God (Allah) has no partners at all.Nor does he have any relatives.Thats why God is Unique.
if God were to have a son,whats the difference b/w god and Man?
God chose men to deliver his message to different peoples.
The last person to carry out Allah`s(God) job was Muhammed.(peace be upon him)
If Muhmmad wanted popularity he could have asked ppl to worship him. God forbid me
He only did whatever was said to him by Allah