The god of the OT orders genocide, sends plagues, kills babies all over the place and is generally pretty nasty!
Jesus' "Father" is loving, compassionate, forgiving and all that good stuff.
I think they may be two different Gods!
2007-09-22 15:41:06 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Did you ever actually read the Bible?
I find your characterization of the God of the Old Testament to be completely false and slanderous. I find Him to be harmonious with the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, as have multiplied millions of Christians both alive today and in former ages.
2007-09-22 15:48:29 · answer #1 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
No, it's the same God. But God has more than one side to Him. He's not just a mushy God of love. He is also a God of justice, and God of righteousness, a God of vengeance.
I'll bet you have emotions too, don't you? You're probably not always kind and loving all the time. You get upset when someone does something wrong to you. So does God. He made the planet, put these humans on it, and basically said, "I love you- let's be friends. We'll fellowship, but I'm a holy God, so you have to be holy too, 'cause I can't hang around sin".
(I'm really paraphrasing here). So what does man do? Lie, kill, steal, worship idols, walk away from God, sacrifice babies in fires to stone idols, have orgies. What do you expect Him to do? He has the right to wipe out what He made and start over. These people He judged through plagues and genocide were some of the nastiest people you'd ever want to meet, worse than the Nazis. There was so much lawlessness, so much filth, God had to judge them.
That's why He sent Jesus. Man had no moral sense at all inside- he had died to God when he sinned in the garden of Eden. Sin was part of his makeup. So God had to give man a new moral compass- a new spirit- through Jesus. That helped turn society around a lot. It's still got a long way to go, but that's another story.
2007-09-22 15:51:33 · answer #2 · answered by Dawn C 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The sons of God interior the previous testomony refers back to the angels. Jesus on the different hand is the only begotten Son of God and is derived from the father. the father and the Son are one interior an identical. Jesus is God and has authority over each and every of the angels and all the universe. Jesus is talked approximately as the Son of God via fact it particularly is God's identify whilst He took on flesh and lived in this earth. whilst in the international, Jesus worshiped the father or maybe positioned Him above Him. He did this to coach us an occasion of how we too are assume to act in the direction of God, even nonetheless he replaced into equivalent with God the father.
2016-10-19 11:44:53 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The God of the Old Testament really has gotten a bad rap. If you take away the New Testament completely, then yes, He appears harsh , unloving and unforgiving. But it was in the Old testament, that Christ was prophesied. (For example Isaiah 53) Also, God's judgments in the OT, have to be seen in light of these verses.
53 " 'However, I will restore the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters and of Samaria and her daughters, and your fortunes along with them, (Ezekiel 16:53)
42 Moab will be destroyed as a nation
because she defied the LORD. (Jeremiah 48:42)
47 "Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab
in days to come,"
declares the LORD.
Here ends the judgment on Moab.(Jer 48:47)
This is why Peter said there will be a restoration of all things, as spoken through the prophets. (Acts 3:21)
God brought in the law with all it's punishments to lead the way to Christ. Read Galatians Chapter 3 to see how the purpose of one was to lead to the other.
2007-09-22 16:08:57 · answer #4 · answered by out of the grey 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Having a son softened him up a bit huh!!! That must be what started all the Jesus love....all those early Christians were grateful because they were relieved that God was finally being nice and holding back on the smiting.
2007-09-22 16:01:23 · answer #5 · answered by universatile love 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You kind of answered your own question alittle there. In the old testiment God was an angry God because man was excedeingly evil God disiplined his children for there sins many times by a form of death. But when he sent his son Jesus hedidn't do away with the old ways he completed them.
The wages for sin is death. Eternal seperation from God. When Jesus died on the cross he completed that law of death for sin. For he being perfect died that we may be saved our debt of death. It was a gift and any who accept that gift does not have to pay the wage of sin but is releaved of that burden.
Don't you see that the things in the old testiment that you speek of had to take place for Jesus' sacrifice an gift to have any meaning.
2007-09-22 15:53:26 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's an interesting question, but are you considering the context?:
God of the OT as a mighty Lord of a nomadic people wandering in the wilderness, a people continually under the attack of other warring nations?
And God the Father, as depicted in the NT, as Christ describes him to the jews and gentiles, as more of a compassionate, loving Father. I see the difference you're speaking of, but I've often found this to be analogous to that of an old manager of mine: to me, he was often perceived as yelling about release deadlines and faulty code, etc, etc. Full of rage and anger. Yet to his children, he was kind, soft-spoken and compassionate.
Similar situation here: I think it depends upon the context of who is writing, and what situation they are currently within.
Good question.
2007-09-22 15:49:20 · answer #7 · answered by Rob 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
That is why muhammod chose the god of the OT. It justified muhammod's hate and evilness.
2007-09-22 15:48:12 · answer #8 · answered by Lionheart ® 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Think what you like. Jesus and the Father are one, and there is but one God.
2007-09-22 15:45:31 · answer #9 · answered by William D 5 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Nope, same God.
2007-09-22 15:49:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋