he wants to know "which God do you believe in ? The god of the New Testament( sermon on the mount,) or the God of the Old Testament(Yahweh). They seem to be diametrically opposed Gods?"
2007-10-06 13:51:01 · 28 answers · asked by cristelle R 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God took an anger management class in 50 BC. It helped his attitude A LOT.
2007-10-06 13:57:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
These are the same God.
I agree that God seems cruel in the First part of the bible.
There are many reasons for God being stern and the Laws of Moses.
God (Yahawah or Yahweh) promised he would send a Savior and Yahshua (Jesus) the Messiah came to fulfill this promise.
The people needed to be formed into a nation and to be established as a nation. Much of the first half of the bible records the extremes God and the people needed to go to make this so!
2007-10-07 02:18:43 · answer #2 · answered by troll to troll 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would say this to your husband: the God of the old testament is good. giving good things from the start.
men have free will, believe a lie that comes from an opposing enemy of God and do bad.
God makes a covenant to provide an umbrella of protection against the bad that they do.
men have free will, believe more lies from the opposing side and do worse.
God sends His Son who is good, represents a good God, and doesnt fall for lies and deception from the opposer.
the Son pays the price against those that did wrong, providing an entry to be reconciled to the Father.
now those who believe and receive reconciliation are to maintain the status of victory over the opposer that the Son won for them.
read of the garden of Eden again, then read of the 1000 years in the last book "the revelation".
anything look familiar? God is good. and provides good in both cases.
the God of the OT and the God of the NT is the same. only difference...
the old covenant had a curse because God dealt with men of flesh suseptable to sin.
the new covenant has no curse because God deals with men through what righteousness His Son did for man.
its not a different God, the new testament is just a better covenant.
2007-10-06 21:53:00 · answer #3 · answered by opalist 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Jehovah God the creator is mostly the one in the old testament. Jesus the son of God and the son of man is the word that became flesh and dwelt among us. God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are all one God. Three different roles , but one God.
2007-10-06 22:40:38 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The savior in the New Testament is Yeshua bar Yosep (Jesus son of Joseph) who is the son of God in the Holy Trinity. God or the "Lord" is in the old testament. Does this mean that YHWH gets mad at the Israelites and Jesus the Christ teaches and helps the people of the world? YHWH was frustrated from the point of betrayal of Adam and Eve to before Christ's birth. Jesus helped people by teaching them parables and performing miracles. The status of the 2 members of the Trinity could be inversly proportional.
2007-10-06 21:12:11 · answer #5 · answered by Kyle J 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Well you see there was a time before Jesus came. When the law was what we had. The law we knew of God that God had given the jewish people. They tried to live it perfectly but as you can see we as humanity have often stumbled along our way. The old testament shows what its like to live by the Law with no grace. The closest thing they had to grace was the temple of meeting and the sacrifices which was a symbol of what was to come. Just as it is said in the Bible that the blood of Rams and Heffirs was never enough for God. Jesus came and totaly blew away the people around him. Not teaching by what he had learned but by authority. He made many claims he was God in the Flesh through out the new testament and fulfilled many old testament proplecies. For example read Psalms 22 where it talks about that he was PIERCED FOR OUR INIQUITIES By the way this whole chapter is about Jesus and its before his time. Same as Zachariah 12.
Psalms 22:16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
Psa 22:17 I may tell all my bones: they look [and] stare upon me.
Psa 22:18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
Or even consieder the verse
Zechariah 12:10 ¶ And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for [his] only [son], and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for [his] firstborn.
This is going to be soon when Israel will soon understand Jesus was the Messiah but that time is set to yet come. Maybe soon.
There many more and the chances that Jesus would fulfill all these is mathematically silly. But it happened. And in that day he died for us the Law which condemned all humanity was joined with Jesus Grace and became one. The law convicts us of what we know in our hearts to be true and Jesus provides a permanent salvation for those who will accept it. So my answer is that he sees the law and its consequences in the Old testament. In the New Testament He sees the ultimate plan of God fulfilled in its entirety. But even then people were saved not by the law. It was counted to Abraham because he believed as Righeousness.
2007-10-07 01:21:13 · answer #6 · answered by Dustinthewind 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The God of the New Testament. God did not reveal himself all at once to the Jewish people. He did it in stages and with good reason. They were not ready yet. The true heart and mind of God was revealed by Jesus Christ who is the fullness of revelation.
2007-10-06 21:00:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Actually it's the same (three-in-one) God but it does appear that the God of the OT was different from God of the NT.
God has different ways of teaching His people. Through the OT laws He was trying to teach people what life would be like without grace and forgiveness - "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" - every crime deserved punishement. Grace and forgiveness are possible only because of the sacrifice of Jesus Who took upon Himself the punishment for sins. Without punishment for sins God would not be a just God in forgiving the sinner.
"For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ." (John 1:17).
Keep in mind these laws were given by God Himself, not by Moses. They were only give through Moses. But it is Jesus Who reveals the truth about God not only being a just God but a merciful God by His own sacrifice which made it possible to offer grace to sinners "that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus." (Rom. 3:26).
2007-10-06 21:27:53 · answer #8 · answered by Andy Roberts 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm Jewish, so I believe in the G-d of the Torah. (Old Testament, for the Christians)
2007-10-06 21:08:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
--WE WORSHIP the God of Jesus , He is the only true God, and Jehovah or Yahweh is his name: Please note what Jesus commanded:
(Mark 12:29-30) “. . .Jesus answered: “The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel, Jehovah our God is one Jehovah, 30 and you must love Jehovah your God with your whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole mind and with your whole strength. . .”
--JESUS SAID there is only ONE true God:
(John 17:3) “3 This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ. . .”
--SO JESUS worshipped the God of both the Old & New Testament!---THEY ARE THE SAME!
--WHY WOULD he do that if they were truly diamatrically opposed?
--COULD IT BE that the way the churches have misrepresented the God of Jesus that causes the contradiction?
2007-10-06 21:06:57 · answer #10 · answered by THA 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Both they are one and the same
Old testament Prophecy's tell of the Messiah of the New testament
2007-10-06 21:09:47 · answer #11 · answered by Gifted 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋