What made God change his policy?

Question

He used to require animal sacrifice and complete submission. He drowned everyone except one family in a flood. He sent plagues. Then all at once he decided he loved the world and sent his own son to be a human sacrifice.

What caused the change in God?

Answer 1

My guess is he got married. Animal sacrifice, drownings, classic bachelor behavior. Obviously Mrs God changed his ways and turned him into a pussy.

Answer 2

God has always loved the world and He still requires us to obey His will.
Everyone had the choice to enter the ark and live or disobey and drowned...their choice.
The plagues were sent to show his power to those who did not believe and to punish those who had hurt his chosen people.
The remission of sins has always required a blood sacrifice..In the end he gave his Son, something preordained before the world was formed. Whose blood was pure and ended the need once and for all for animal sacrifice..

God does not change. He is the same yesterday, today and tommorrow..for all of time!
Now we have the choice to obey, choose Christ as our savior and have our sins washed away by his blood and be saved......
or we can disobey...mock him... and believe that he is not real and when we perish we will learn the truth and suffer for our arogance.

Answer 3

Hello,

Yes God's policy changed it is all true, Jesus came to be called the lamb of God the perfect sacrifice once and 4 all time. God the son demonstrated complete submission to God The Father as he is perfect. Once a year the high priest would go into the holy of hollies to offer the sacifice on behalf of all Israels' sins. I thought I would add that. It is truly amazing how Jesus' sacifice at Calvary changed our lives forever it actually crossed us to life from death.

The Law shows us that we need a perfect sacifice. The law was perfect and know one could follow it. That is until the son came. Gods dominate quality is love yet justice and sanctification is there also. Jesus eliminated that death held over all. God brought us back from our transgressions as we were dead.

Peacefully

Answer 4

I think you have to wrong. 1) Ask yourself WHY he flooded the earth? And the door to the ark was open for seven days. Why didn't anybody come to Noah in those seven days? 2)If your referring to Moses, those were proof that God existed, and the Egyptian Gods (including the Nile river) were just false idols.

Now understand the time and time again, God had shown man miracle after miracle in the OT, but after a period of time, the "flavor" wears off, so to speak. That was why Christ was born. To show us physically the power of God's love.

Now the "atonement" through a clean animal was surpassed by the death of Christ. The ultimate sacrifice for mankind.

Answer 5

You would have to read more of the Bible to get the full story. He's done a lot more than that, but only after he warned and warned and warned them he was going to do it. Like a parent of a rebellious kid, you don't really want to spank the crap out of them. They would not listen and after what a hundred years or whatever, he'd finally do something. The difference between the Old Testament and the New Testament is this: the old covenant you needed the preist to pray and sacrafice for you. In the new Testament, all you need is Jesus Christ.

Answer 6

he required animal sacrifices for sins before jesus died on the cross once and for all to pay for all our sins.


Everyone in the world was sinful excpect of Noah and that's why he sent a flood. HE saw what He had done and decided never to put his wrath on the world again.

God is you Creator. He loves YOu. Please don't be so hostile about things like this.....

GOD BLESS YOU

Answer 7

He only punished those not obeying him. And that includes the Jews. when they left off worshipping Jehovah God, he ALLOWED the Assyrians to invade Israel and cart nearly the whole population off to Babylon for seventy years. A few people were left behind. After seventy years, the people most responsible for the disobedience had died off. So God gave their offspring the opportunity to return [ by having Cyrus defeat the Babylonians] to Jerusalem and rebulid the temple. It took them some time but it was achieved.

Answer 8

I have an 8 year old son. His name is Zach. I have another son who is 4. His name is Sammy.
When I correct Sammy I need to raise my voice and threaten punishment of some sort in order for him to stop the behavior that is destructive to himself socially/spiritually/morally. If I do the same thing to my other son, he will go into a state of shock and shut down totally in fear. With Zach I have to gently explain to him that what he is doing is unacceptable, why it is unacceptable, and what behavior would be a better choice. I love them both the same. I get the same results. I have no interest in punishing either one outside of training them up in how to survive in today's society.

GOD does the same with us.

Answer 9

He aways knew what he was doing and when he would do it. The old testament is all about the jews and god trying to teach them to follow his command, I think he was preparing them for the Savoir that they decided they didn't want. Thus the gospel went to the gentiles. The jews were God's chosen people, they just turned their back on him and put him to death on a cross. Thinking about it now, God loves us all ans welcomes Jews into Christianity everyday. This is after they put Christ to death. What a wonderful God to forgive like that and Love so much.

Answer 10

Maybe because He really saw that He wanted to approach mankind with unconditional love, for all and not just Israel. Perhaps he saw good people in other countries, and He wanted to include them with a grand gesture - the sending of His Son. Or perhaps He wanted to cause a new age. Who knows? He's GOD!