What was the God of the old testament looking for among mankind?

Question

It seems like the God of the old testament was looking for a certain quality among mankind.

Life and death meant nothing too him, clean off a spot and start over.

What was expected of man to find mercy from the God of the old testament?

Answer 1

He was apparently looking to be fed regularly with blood, and invented the concept of "sin" to give people something to feel guilty about, so that they could be cajoled into providing holocausts to square themselves with Him.

Answer 2

Methinks that you have to understand the background of the Old Testament. When there were the two kingdoms, Judah and Isreal, both succumbed to the same problem, which was worshipping "false idols." There were religions that required sacrifice of young children by *fire. This was a problem to BOTH kingdoms. Hense the 70 years of captivity to Babylon.

As far as expectations of finding mercy in the OT; I would think it was to peserve the law and keep God in your heart.

Answer 3

I think he was a Trainee InvisibleSkyPixie and just got the mix wrong between Possibilities and Expectations.

Can you imagine any SupremeBeing manufacturing an object WITH A GLITCH then expecting the item to NOT SUCCUMB to that glitch.
Sorta puts all that HocusPocus stuff in context, don't it?

"What was expected of man to find mercy from the God of the old testament?"
Complete and Utter subservience - do not pass go; do not think; do not question.
Oh, and give lotsa money to the Crutch you support so the Parasites can get a free ride on your back.

Answer 4

exciting since the believers/disciples/apostles persevered to maintain the feasts after Jesus ascended to the father. (Acts 20:sixteen, 18:21, 1Cor 5:8) Celebrating the feasts immediately isn't approximately being under the regulation. For those Christians and Messianic Jews who word the feasts immediately that's approximately celebrating the fulfillment of them in the process the achieved artwork of Christ. while God reported the feasts have been to be saved continuously, do you think of He did not understand or plan for the destiny AFTER the circulate? Why does not He have reported, "those banquet are to be saved till the promise of the Messiah is fulfilled"? as an occasion: Exodus 12:14 AMP (Passover) (14) And on the present time would be to you for a memorial. You shall save it as a banquet to the Lord throughout the time of your generations, save it as an ordinance continuously. Leviticus 23:40-one AMP (banquet of Tabernacles) (40-one) You shall save it as a banquet to the Lord for seven days interior the year, a statute continuously throughout the time of your generations; you shall save it interior the seventh month. that's a controversy of the middle, in wanting to have fun and bear in recommendations God's faithfulness.

Answer 5

The men who told those stories had many reasons for inventing their Gods. Mainly for the purpose of controlling the masses and having a standard set of laws to abide by. Later, when the scribes went to work setting it to the languages of the area, many interpretations were made of what had previously been spoken. So many myths and contradictions now, it is a very difficult read.

Answer 6

The Hebrew God demanded absolute obedience. When he switched to Christian God he ignored his own sons pleas, that he not be a human sacrifice, to prove He wants absolute obedience.

The thing of it is, Humans were allowed to evolve too far to be absolutely obedient to anything. So much for him being a "Perfect God."

Answer 7

imagine that you're playing a game like sim city or one of those other "god" games... what are you looking for in the simulation? to see how good you are at playing, to reach a certain level, to see how the city overcomes different "natural" disasters.
if the sims dont behave exactly the way you want them to behave, you delete them or kick them out of the garden of eden.
and so the god of the tanakh wanted total obedience, or you'll be rebooted.

Answer 8

You'd have to ask the men who wrote the book. Those are their philosophies, and they're quite a ways from being perfect. Some are actually a few steps short of being reasonable. Treat it as a book of philosophical history, nothing more.

Answer 9

That's a good question. God was simply looking for mankind to be obedient to him, but many times they got caught up in their own sin, and god had to start over like with the flood.

Answer 10

Obedience