Is God Different in the Old Testament and New Testament? Skeptics will point to passages like Joshua 6:17 [where the Lord commands Joshua to destroy the city along with all its inhabitants], Exodus 7-12 [where He calls down the plagues on Egypt] and Genesis 18-19 [in which He destroys Sodom and Gomorrah] etc. to demonstrate how the Old Testament portrays God as impatient, cruel and merciless. Whereas, on the other hand, it is believed that the New Testament portrays God as the epitome of love and grace, who never says a harsh word. This imagined difference between “the God of the Old Testament” and the God of the New has proven both a stumbling block for many, and a platform for much finger pointing at the Bible. However it is based on a combination of several false presumptions about both God and Jesus, a tendency to view [or judge] God from our standpoint, an all too common habit of ignoring ‘other’ verses, and disregarding the circumstances of the day. (read more)
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:33:33 +0000
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