Is the Old Testament God really Satan?

Question

Serious question. And if He isn't, then why so many contradictions?
Comparing the Old Testament to the new one.
God of Jesus: "God is love." (1 John 4:16)
God of Moses: "Kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man" (Num. 31:17)
God of Jesus: "Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me." (Mark 9:37)
God of Moses: "Put to death men and women, children and infants" (1 Sam. 15:2-3)
God of Jesus: "Love does no harm to its neighbor" (Rom. 13:10)
God of Moses: "He totally destroyed all who breathed, just as the Lord, the God of Israel, had commanded." (Josh. 10:40)
God of Jesus: "[The devil] was a murderer from the beginning." (John 8:44)
God of Moses: "Slaughter old men, young men and maidens, women and children" (Ezek. 9:6)
God of Jesus: "Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour." (1 Peter 5:8)
God of Moses: "Like a lion I will devour them.

(There should be no reason for deletion, as I have posed a valid and serious question in a respectful and informative manner in the correct category)

actually, squirt, I did not compile this. A member named bluecake did but for some reason his question kept getting deleted...I have always thought this myself, though, and he did a wonderful job bringing it all together.

conate, I did not say or ask if God IS Satan...God id God, obviously, and God makes himself apparent in the NT. I am asking if perhaps people were mistakenly worshipping the wrong presence in the OT. The God presented to us in the OT seems awfully wrathful, vengeful, childish, and evil to be worthy of worship, don't you think?

Conate, this was not my question, it was taken from someone else's that got deleted. He has actually asked if the whole Bible was fabricated due to these contradictions. I am simply presenting his question in another way, and a more respectful non-deletable form, so that people like you can't report away the point that he had to make.

Good point Lucifer. This is just in reference to the christian Bible and concept of Satan and God. We really don't have the knowledge to put labels on either one of them. The main reason I asked this was because the other guy who asked first kept getting deleted and it was pissing me off. Just wanted to help him get it out there....

The christian concept of Satan is pure evil, and to me everything about the OT God is just pure evil, so he would fit their Satan concept. This is all within the confines of christian thought of course, not the world as a whole.

Answer 1

How can you determine anything about Satan when you hear only views a perceptions of "Satan's" existence from people and so called creators that will not give the entity room to speak or even defend itself? This in modern day society would be consider a opinion instead of an actual truth since there is no scientific data or proof showing Satan, to be what he is acclaimed to be. The same type of system is and can be applied to the conceptual idea of God.

Answer 2

Old Testament God Is Satan

Answer 3

No. Satan deceived Eve in Genesis. Satan told her to eat the apple. God told her not to. I could sit here all day and use the scriptures to answer your question. All day it would be the same answer: God IS NOT Satan.

Think about it this way. God can kill who he wants. He can also bring the back. In Revelation it states there will be a resurrection of the righteous and the unrighteous. If I died tomorrow I wouldn't care because God can bring me back. He eliminated those who stood in the way of his purpose for the time being. One day they MAY come back.

If your garden had weeds in it, wouldn't you pull them out to save your plants?

PS- You used a scripture from Revelation in your earlier article. Where'd it go? Why point contradictions when you contradict yourself? Oh, you've "fixed" it now havn't you...

Answer 4

NO. In the Old Testament God held up the standard to show us what it would truly take to get to heaven on our own merit. In the New Testament He revealed His grace, which had always been there anyway, but was not fully shown until the New Testament.

Answer 5

You've been doing your homework. I have wondered, studied and there it is, so simple. lol Thank you. Fits in with the original texts of Sumer, Akkadia and Babylon.

Answer 6

Hi....

'God' is a Human concept!!

Man made the bible...

Man made 'God'.... In his own image!!!

Funny how 'man' has hatred/wrath and love too!!??

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Answer 7

yeah, the ot god was a sadistic jerk

Answer 8

no

Answer 9

You suck