God's change from The Old Testament to The New

[joshvanrad]

I have been pondering this over the past couple days and decided to pose my questions to all of you on the forums.

If God is truly omnipotent and ever-loving then why would his reign change from The Old Testament to The New Testament? It seems contradictory to me that a God who created us in His likeness out of everlasting love would change from a God who would bring harm to His children in punishment (Old) into a God who sends His only begotten Son to us as a sign of peace and love (New). I see the stark contrast between The Old and New Testaments and they confuse me because I would think an omnipotent ever-loving God would remain constant.

God bless,
Joshua

 

[Safia]

This question was just posed to the Apologists.

Here’s the answer.

Do you have any further questions?

 

[joshvanrad]

This question was just posed to the Apologists.

Here’s the answer.

Do you have any further questions?

Thank you greatly!

That is the answer to my question.

God bless,
Joshua

 

[TimothyH]

I have been pondering this over the past couple days and decided to pose my questions to all of you on the forums.

If God is truly omnipotent and ever-loving then why would his reign change from The Old Testament to The New Testament? It seems contradictory to me that a God who created us in His likeness out of everlasting love would change from a God who would bring harm to His children in punishment (Old) into a God who sends His only begotten Son to us as a sign of peace and love (New). I see the stark contrast between The Old and New Testaments and they confuse me because I would think an omnipotent ever-loving God would remain constant.

God bless,
Joshua

There is one God. God does not change. The God of the Old Testament is the same God as the God of the New Testament.

The people who God ordered destroyed in the Old Testament were cannibals, pedophiles, engaged in homosexual rituals as part of their worship, drank human blood as part of their worship and sacrificed their own children to false Gods.

And who says that God does not punish his children now? What about 622,000 dead in the 1860’s in order to settle the issue of whether one human being can own another human being as property. Lincoln put it beautifully in his second innaugural address…

The Almighty has His own purposes. “Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.” If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.”

I shudder to think what God will do to us because of abortion.

-Tim-

 

[Joe_5859]

I would additionally recommend Jimmy Akin’s insightful piece:

Hard Sayings of the Old Testament

I think it gives some good points to consider.

 

[Jesusismyfriend]

I believe that when God punished people in the Old Testamnet, he meant it out of love. Even now, God disciplines Christians because He loves them. If we are never punished, how can we become ready for Heaven? We still struggle with the same sins that people in the Old Testament dealt with. God is just as upset about them. He sent His son, not only to save us, but to show how much He loves us. That is why He disciplines us as well, so we will learn obedience.

 

[Jesusismyfriend]

There is one God. God does not change. The God of the Old Testament is the same God as the God of the New Testament.

The people who God ordered destroyed in the Old Testament were cannibals, pedophiles, engaged in homosexual rituals as part of their worship, drank human blood as part of their worship and sacrificed their own children to false Gods.

This helps answer my question about cults. If pedophilia and homosexuality began as cult rituals, then cults are still around today. Thanks.

 

[tonyrey]

I have been pondering this over the past couple days and decided to pose my questions to all of you on the forums.

If God is truly omnipotent and ever-loving then why would his reign change from The Old Testament to The New Testament? It seems contradictory to me that a God who created us in His likeness out of everlasting love would change from a God who would bring harm to His children in punishment (Old) into a God who sends His only begotten Son to us as a sign of peace and love (New). I see the stark contrast between The Old and New Testaments and they confuse me because I would think an omnipotent ever-loving God would remain constant.

God is constant. It is the** human **perception of God that has changed since the coming of Christ. The Old Testament was written by men and women who were inspired, had astonishing insight into the nature of God and predicted the coming of the Messiah but they were not infallible. There are many spiritual truths in the Old Testament but there are also misinterpretations of events. The teaching of Jesus that God is a loving Father should be our criterion of what is true and false in the Scriptures.