2007-03-07 03:00:47 · 12 answers · asked by Zen禅Maiden :ジェダイ 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God has been misrepresented by those who do not know Him. All through the Bible God is declaring His great love for us, if one would bother to look they would find all the scripture that supports this. For instance, in Psalms 139:1, it says that God takes the time to know everything about us. It says in Gen1:27, that we were created in His image. That He knits us together in our mother's womb. In 1John 4:16 says that God is is the full expression of love. His plan for us is filled with hope in Jeremiah 29:11. His thoughts toward us are countless Psalms 139:17-18 . He rejoices over us with singing. Zephaniah3:17. One day, God will wipe every tear from our eyes and comfort us personally. Rev 21:3-4. So, tell me since God is the same yesterday, today and forever where is there evidence of vengeful God ? Just to anyone who does not know Him, please get to know Him before you say such things! God is an awesome God and Father who sent His son to take your sin and punishment! He did not abandon His offspring and leave them to die in their sin! He provided a way to salvation! How awesome is God's great love!
2007-03-07 03:36:25 · answer #1 · answered by Marie 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God seems more fierce in the old testament, yes, but look what he had to deal with. The Mosaic Law was created as to show the Jews just how imperfect they were (they were getting pretty sure of themselves) and it is a fact that the Mosaic Law was impossible to follow to perfection. This was God's purpose. All this led up to Jesus, who fullfilled the Law, and relieved us of it's burden. After Jesus's sacrifice, we could once again come close to our creator. For a father to send his son down to be killed, it took a lot of love on his part for Humans. He loved us first, and those whom he loves, he disciplines. The people of the old testament got a lot of discipline, but they will not be forgotton at the ressurection. They too benefit from Jesus.
2007-03-07 11:08:32 · answer #2 · answered by Starjumper the R&S Cow 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Read this please, you don't have to pick my answer but just read and think about it and look it up yourself.
Deuteronomy 32: 4,5 says:
"The Rock, (God) perfect is his activity. For all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness, with whom there is no injustice. Righteous and upright is he."
That was verse 4. Now verse 5 tells you is it God's fault that we suffer?
Verse 5 says:
"They (wicked mankind) have acted ruinously on their OWN part; They are not his children., the defect is their OWN..."
So when God brings judgement he does so in a just and loving way. God always warns before he excutes judgement so when the men, women, and children are destroyed, God is not being unjust is just that these people decided not to listen and thus they received their reward in full.
2007-03-07 11:12:49 · answer #3 · answered by Whistle 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God is the same today, yesterday, and forever. The God of the Old Testament is the exact same as the God of the New. The difference is, in the New Testament, Jesus' sacrifice covered us with grace, so we have a chance to get it right, BEFORE we die in our sins.
2007-03-07 11:28:02 · answer #4 · answered by LENZ 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It coincides with an overall shift in religious thinking around the world. Historians have a term for the era which begins around the time of Buddha. I only wish I could think of it. Maybe another responder can help me out. Prier to it, Monotheism, or belief in a single God, was rare if it existed at all. People thought their enemy had their own god. But they would sing, "my god is stronger than yours." In fearful times, ruthlessness was needed for security. God, in that case, had to be ruthless.
2007-03-07 11:09:32 · answer #5 · answered by Mr. Bodhisattva 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, its more important that you look at the culture's interpretation of God in relation to their writings. OT and NT Judea were VERY different places.
God is the same in both, just the interpretation of how God reacts to the people is different. You can not underplay the significant influence three hundred years of Greek and Roman culture played.
2007-03-07 11:13:15 · answer #6 · answered by crmrmurphy 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
How could any god be more vengeful than a god that sends his own son to an excruciatingly painful death and punishes non-believers eternally?
There is no original sin nor eternal damnation in Judaism.
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2007-03-07 11:03:40 · answer #7 · answered by Hatikvah 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's the same God. Jesus is the difference. When Jesus was not there to intervene on our behalf, there was no buffer between God's absolute righteousness and our imperfection. God sent Jesus to be the solution to our problem. That's why Christians love Jesus so much.
2007-03-07 11:05:18 · answer #8 · answered by Gee Wye 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
That's when God discovered Xanax.
2007-03-07 11:06:07 · answer #9 · answered by WWTSD? 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you think so read the Book of Revelation
2007-03-07 11:03:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋