Wouldn't it make more sense for Christians to say that the OT God is different from the Christian God too?

Question

Christians frequently claim that the Muslim deity Allah is a different God from the one they worship.

Given the actions of YHWH in the OT, wouldn't it make sense to distance Christianity from that guy too? All you'd lose are some prophecies predicting a Messiah, but there's still stuff in the NT that says the Bible is true because the Bible says the Bible is true. (Besides, it's not like Jesus was all that much like the Isaian Messiah anyway.) And you could disavow all the OT put-babies-to-the-sword sort of stuff.

Answer 1

Sometimes I think Christians only honor the OT because they can show prophesies that were fulfilled. (But the nonbeliever is not impressed that prophesies made in one book they don't believe were fulfilled in another book they don't believe).

In the early days of Christianity, the first four centuries, before the New Testament was canonized, there was a group of Christians who believed there were two Gods, the 'creator' God of the Old Testament and a new God of the New Testament. The OT God was all about discipline and anger and punishment, the NT God was all about love and forgiveness. I can see how they might think that!

Answer 2

It would make more sense for Christians to acknowledge that the Christian God is different from the Jewish God. Their claim that the two concepts are similar rests with the fact that in both religions, God is the Creator of the universe, as well as the One who sent the Prophets who are familiar to both religions. However, the same is true of Islam, which many Christians try to claim has a different God than they do. Their argument for this rests on the fact that Islam rejects the deity of any entity other than God, including the divine incarnation of any created being. However, their claim that Judaism and Christianity share the same God falls to pieces with their argument that Christianity and Islam worship different Gods. The other factors remain the same: Islam sees God as the Creator of the universe; and Islam sees God as the One who sent all of the commonly known Prophets. Christianity stands out as the one religion among the three with distinct views on the deity.

Obviously, there are differences between Judaism and Islam. They just do not appear to be as deep as the differences between Islam and Christianity, or between Judaism and Christianity.

Answer 3

The Bible is a history book you can't pretend it didn't happen and accept the name of a made up god just because you chose to do so. there is but one GOD ALMIGHTY JEHOVAH
That is a fact and you cannot change it. Jesus is the Son Of God and the messiah, can't change that either. No matter how many religions people come up with that deny that fact it won't matter when Jesus returns. The prophecy will be fulfilled, can't change that either.

Answer 4

No, God in the OT is the same as God in the NT. If you study a little deeper into WHY things occured in the OT as they did, you would understand that it was the same loving God protecting his children as Jesus in the NT. Allah is totaly different from God in the Holy Bible, his disposition, his words, his ways, his lack of love for creation and mankind. God is consistent from the beginning in OT to the NT until the end, one must study and pray for knowledge to understand these things.

Answer 5

You cannot do that, because it's the same God.

The difference is that Jesus' birth (and crucifixion/resurrection) ended one era of God's dealings with the world and began another. As an example, in the OT, God's people had to sacrifice animals to atone for sin; in the NT Jesus made the ultimate sacrifice for us on the cross, so that practice is no longer necessary.

Answer 6

The NT G-d and the OT G-d are one and the same. Yeshua (Jesus) is the messiah that Isaiah prophesied of. The Bible is both the OT and the NT and it is forbidden to taken anything away from it.

Answer 7

We couldn't because our God forbids us to take away from the scripture. Also, he is the same God that is in the Old Testament as the one in the New Testament. His mercies have always been there for all men beginning with Adam and Eve.
Many people get caught up in the other stuff when the main point of the scripture is to track and record the promises of God. The very first promise was the promise of the one who would bruise his heal on the neck of Satan.
Satan is a spirit and you can't be a natural man to stamp on Satan's neck. Thus, many have missed that the very first promise was of a Messiah who would come to defeat Satan spiritually.
And since you mentioned Isaiah he also tells us that he would come to spiritually defeat God's enemies. Just read these passages from his book in the Bible;
Isaiah 11:1 ¶ And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

Thus, he came as Jesus Christ to destroy the works that turned God's people away from the One we can't see with eyes and to give sight to those who believe what Isaiah was speaking of concerning Israel that they are in error.

Answer 8

yes.


This is the deity they worship.

Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged from Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT)

They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)

But if this charge is true (that she wasn't a virgin on her wedding night), and evidence of the girls virginity is not found, they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her fathers house and there her townsman shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against Israel by her unchasteness in her father's house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst. (Deuteronomy 22:20-21 NAB)

Make ready to slaughter his sons for the guilt of their fathers; Lest they rise and posses the earth, and fill the breadth of the world with tyrants. (Isaiah 14:21 NAB)

"Then I heard the LORD say to the other men, "Follow him through the city and kill everyone whose forehead is not marked. Show no mercy; have no pity! Kill them all – old and young, girls and women and little children. But do not touch anyone with the mark. Begin your task right here at the Temple." So they began by killing the seventy leaders. "Defile the Temple!" the LORD commanded. "Fill its courtyards with the bodies of those you kill! Go!" So they went throughout the city and did as they were told." (Ezekiel 9:5-7 NLT)

Answer 9

The Old Testament and the New Testament God are the same.

My conniving friend, God said, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." God wants His children like Him. If you aren't God's children then you are the devil's children and God has no problem punishing the wicked.

Don't miss the fact that God is the Judge of all mankind. We all want the sweet, loving, caring, healing Jesus, but Jesus is also God of the Old Testament and Jesus will Judge all mankind.

God has rules - follow them! Jesus said, "If you love me, keep my commandments."

Answer 10

YHWH (Jehovah, Lord (not lord)) was Jesus. That belief is despite the addition to God's word that we in the USA currently refer to as the Red Letter Edition.