Why is the Christian god such a god of love, whereas the Bible god is a god of vengeance and retribution?

Question

And how do they sort out their differences, if both of them are in Heaven looking down on humanity?

Answer 1

Good question.

Jesus asked the same thing when he was alive.

When he wrote his gospels he tried to point out that the YHWH God of the old testament could not have been the god of the universe because he was a jealous god who demanded blood sacrifice.

See: The Supreme Bible of God
http://one-faith-of-god.org/final_testament/bible_of_god.htm

Jesus went to far as to consider YHWH as evil- as satan. This so incensed the Sadducees and Pharisees that they plotted a complete counter movement to destroy his teachings (The Nazarenes) and create a new religious movement- christianity.

So today, rather than worshipping the wisdom of Jesus, we really still worship YHWH, the jealous, the ignorant god of the Old testament.

WWJD? What would Jesus Do?
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Jesus would ask each and every person who claim to believe in him to stop worshipping the devil and start praising the universe.
To stop worshipping idols and start worshipping life.
To stop cursing and killing in his name and start respecting one another.
To stop supporting the false religion of Paul of Tarsus.

Answer 2

Well, we have 1. the original mss (lost forever) I guess they never change, although we'll never know what they said). 2. Copies of mss (Some scholarship sheds light on which are closer to the original (#1), but we really don't know. If you think we do, just take a look at some of the attacks by one group against mss they don't happen to like. 3. Translations. Paraphrases and translations are the same, since it's impossible to render a translation with perfect dynamic equivalence or literal equivalence or whatever. 4. Interpretations. The selfsame words can be understood differently by different people, based on their preexisting underlying assumptions. 5. Progressive revelation. The observation that as we find out stuff, we revise our understanding of what scripture actually says. Two hundred years ago, it was a given in most churches that the Scriptures upheld slavery; today, hardly anyone would take that position. So what changes? What stays the same? Ask any number of people, and you will get different "sincere" answers. We have no mechanism to help Joe Q. Average to think it through. He might not get a perfect result, but he will get a better result.

Answer 3

You are referring to a stark contrast between the Jewish god Jehovah of the Hebrew scripture (incorporated into the Christian Bible as an"'old testament") and the Gandhi-like teachings of Christ in the Gospel.

Answer 4

God is a God of Love....He is seen as God of vengeance and retribution because the children of Israel were under the law and they were disobedient to that law and there were consequences for their actions. When Jesus died on the cross, He died for our sins and through Love made a way for us to come back to God. And He keeps us from falling away from our relationship with God.

Answer 5

Because the god of reality is unrelated to the god of the Bible.

Answer 6

God took an anger management class right around 50 BCE and it really took hold.

Answer 7

God doesn't change, He cant tolerate sin, and sin cant enter heaven. God loves us and has provided a way for us to go to heaven.

Answer 8

Interpretation.

Answer 9

Mind Control !

Answer 10

God made man in his image. Thats where multiple personality disorder comes from. God's mean and nasty old testament and just so loveable in the new.