If God never changes then why did he seem to punish people more in the Old Testament times then in the New?

Answer 1

Instead of grabbing some illiterate yokel like with all the other messages he wanted to get across, he decided it would be better to have a son, torture him mercilessly, and change a few things while he was at it. Then have his followers commit countless attrocities and genocides on his behalf, you know cause he was a kinder gentler god.

Answer 2

~Well, since man created God, God has had to evolve along with Man. After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, man has been anti-nuke, so god isn't allowed to do an encore of sodom and gomorah. As knowledge, logic and common sense grow, then naturally will shrink mythology and the import of fairy tales.

Or maybe there is some problem within the mythology that causes one to pause and consider that if this wonderful all-knowing and all-powerful gumbah created such a phuckup as man, he couldn't be that all-knowing or all-powerful else he would be required by the simple force of reason and logic to wipe the blotter clean and put the rats and cockroaches in charge. Duh. And may Goobleskeera show you the Light.

Answer 3

In the New Testament, God the Son, Jesus, took the punishment for those who would believe. He is coming again to judge the living and the dead.

Answer 4

After flooding the earth and leading Noah to Safety, The God of the old testament decided not to punish people anymore, and there was a rainbow

Answer 5

In OT times, the Jewish people, the race that would give us the Messiah, had a lot of enemies who wanted to wipe them off the face of the earth. If the Jews had not defended themselves against their many enemies, they would have been destroyed, and the Messiah Jesus could not have been born.
This is one of the reasons that there is so much bloodshed in the OT.

Answer 6

And why is he a storm god in the Song of Deborah and in Psalms -- some of the oldest language in the Bible. Why is Zoroastrian duality introduced after the Persian conquest? The writers' views changed.

Answer 7

The previous testomony had to be bloody through fact god promised the land of Canaan to the Israelites, and the folk who inhabitted the land does not provide it up freely. they had to bypass to conflict with the folk in this land. The previous testomony became directed on the Israelites, and how they should govern their territory. It spoke approximately how a community ought to function and honor god. the hot testomony is approximately individual salvation and Jesus spoke to us on a private point, on what we ought to do to go into the dominion of heaven. Israel became already wide-unfold and there became no % for a conflict. for this reason Jesus spoke approximately peace.

Answer 8

In the new testament, there is Christ the grace God gives us. Nonetheless the time is coming when God says that He will destroy and bring down those who are evil in our lifetime.
Don't tempt the Hand...perhaps you are missing the numbers that are passing as of late? The times are coming as the earth is in countdown to Armagedon...all signs foretold are coming quickly upon us.

Answer 9

Wow, Martin Luther declared that Islam is "Gods Retribution" for Christian Sins in this world ?


“As early as 1518, Dr. Martin Luther had identified the Islamic faith as the "retribution of God."

For the rest of his life Luther believed that the Muslims were God's punishment upon a sinful Christendom who had, among other sins (ingratitude, toleration of wicked sects, worship of the god Mammon, drunkenness, greed, and the split of Christendom which had provoked His wrath), tolerated the papal abomination. They would function as Germany's schoolmaster who must correct and teach the German people to repent of their sins and to fear God.”

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Answer 10

Well, historically speaking, the OT was the "morning" of humanity.

God's not a morning deity. He was grumpy.

But by the time Jesus came along, he had his coffee, and was a little more with it. Well, up until it was time for Jesus to die. I guess he was reading the paper by then and wasn't paying attention.