The old testament really bothers me. It seems like God was really ruthless. Only after Jesus came did there seem to be any real compassion or mercy. Is this because it was God in the flesh?
2007-06-27 08:14:32 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Don't let the "old testiment bother you". It was the people on earth who were ruthless and horrible, God had to make a set of laws for man that were strict, as people were needing them.
I'm NOT a bible thumper, I'm Jewish, and I DO believe in the "old testiment", TORAH and I do NOT think God is ruthless. He just wants people to obey, love and praise Him.
2007-06-27 08:20:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Hebrews of the Old Testament thought of God as a more punishing God and it is reflected in their writings. Then along comes Jesus to reveal the true nature of God. That's why Jesus is the Christ or Messiah.
2007-06-27 08:24:01 · answer #2 · answered by Max 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I find all sorts of compassion in the OT. I can find the 'impatience' of God in the NT when I look for it. Look to the purpose of the Old Testament. It is to show a stubborn and resistant people the way back. It is calling for repentance. So is the NT. The difference is that with the Atonement of the Christ we are freed from the judgement of the law, but not the commandments.
2007-06-27 09:05:25 · answer #3 · answered by Isolde 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i dont understand how people can negate the Old Testament in the face of the New. one obviously leads to the other.
as i understand it, i guess from a literary perspective, both the Old and New Testaments were formed by the sages of their time, out of many texts and gospels, some were deemed divine, some not. if you want real perspectives, id recommend some Christian or Jewish apocryphal texts, to understand the times. maybe people just changed, maybe the philosophies changed, but in order to belive in both books, it cant have been God - why would that change?
2007-06-30 21:05:25 · answer #4 · answered by Ezra M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither are worth reading a second time, that I can assure you. The old testament is based on other older religions with lots of fabrication and the new testament writers spend so much time trying to add and change stuff to try and prove that jesus met the requirements of being the messiah based on the stuff in the old testament. They both are so contradictory and clogged with error, I would not pass anything along based on either of them.
2007-06-27 08:25:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
All bible thumpers say don't worry about the old testament it doesn't matter. Yet no where in the new or old does it say disregard anything I ever said prior to this new testament.
If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what it detestable. They must be put to death. -Leviticus20:13
If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father and mother, who does not heed them when they discipline him, then his father and mother shall ...say to the elders of his town, "This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and drunkard." Then all the men of the town shall stone him to death. -Deut21
Saying it doesn't matter is like John Kerry saying "I was for the war before I was against it."
Instead God saying "I was for killing all gays before I was against it"
Truth is God not real.
2007-06-27 08:21:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
God is slow to anger and really merciful. People get what they deserve when they don't listen to God.
"The LORD is gracious and merciful; Slow to anger and great in lovingkindness" Psalm 145:8
2007-06-27 08:18:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
dont worry on the old testament. focus on the new testament =)
2007-06-27 08:17:16 · answer #8 · answered by BeAuTiFuL 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
yes
2007-06-27 08:17:31 · answer #9 · answered by Royal Racer Hell=Grave © 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋