2007-12-03 07:46:53 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Huh?...
Now that you mention it, there IS a lot of militant activity directed by Jehovah in the Old Testament....
And Jesus definitely did preach a gospel of peace and love.... although there were those two incidents in the temple with the moneychangers.
Do you remember the story of the Israelites and the golden calf?...
Moses went up into the mountain to talk with Jehovah. The Israelites waited at the base of the mountain. Apparently, he wasn't gone long, and they got bored, melted a bunch of their gold and made a golden calf to worship. They were up to their armpits in partying and worshiping this statue when Moses came back, and he was pretty darn pissed. The stone tablets God had written His law on were thrown by Moses at the calf.... and Moses went back up to the mountain.
The second time Moses came down, the law God had written on the (second set of) tablets was a harsher law- more demanding, more precise, with more outward acts.
When Jesus came, He declared that He brought a higher law, and that the harsher law's time had come to an end. My feeling is that the higher law Jesus taught was what was on Moses' first tablets.... but the people weren't ready for that yet....
Maybe it wasn't God that changed, but the people- they were finally ready for a loving Father, rather than needing a stern task-master... And God accomodated. He was ready and willing to help them learn and grow at their own pace.
2007-12-03 07:58:49 · answer #1 · answered by Yoda's Duck 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Are you talking about turning King David of the Old Testament (Giant slayer) into the water walking, liberal Jew called Water Into Wine Jesus?
God the Father Almighty/Warrior, into Jesus, Jr., Hippie/Religious Temple Lecturer?
2007-12-03 07:58:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Cause like, dude, it's love man. All you need is love and since love is good and you are good, so God is good and God must be love and you need love so God needs you.... I'm hungry.... what was the question?
The real answer - Christians answer this two ways. The Catholic/mainline Protestant answer is that God was always love and the Jews often seriously misunderstood. The Evangelical/Reformed answer is that there are dispensations and God has interacted with man differently at different times for reasons not exactly clear.
2007-12-03 07:57:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Judiac god of war? Never heard of him or it or whatever. I wouldn't say Jesus was a hippy.
2007-12-03 07:53:43 · answer #4 · answered by Zach 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Cause it's much better to be riding in the love bus than the paddy wagon, dude. Be a cool cat, man, and stop tripping on that bad acid.
2007-12-03 07:55:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because Jesus made a "new covenant" and that s**t.
Jesus was obviously not the messiah of the OT God - a crazed murder machine that actually told the Hebrews to commit genocide.
2007-12-03 07:54:51 · answer #6 · answered by The Bassline Libertine 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because John Lennon made better music than General Patton.
2007-12-03 07:53:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually, they took the Gnostic God stolen from Egypt and literalized him and then, with Paul's writings assimilated Jewish doctrine to assimilate their history into the religion.
2007-12-03 07:51:32 · answer #8 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
What's wrong with hippies?
2007-12-03 07:55:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We had a hard time selling the writing on sheep skin. Now we have it on hemp and all the burners are buyin.
Ath
2007-12-03 07:50:49 · answer #10 · answered by athanasius was right 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋