Delta4Embassy
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Can you picture Jesus using genocide as Noahs God did?
The O.T. God has been described as the vilest God imaginable.
The N.T. shows Jesus as a much softer and gentler and loving God.
Many say that Jesus is God even though there are many who dispute that notion for a number of good reasons.
For this O P, I will assume that there is a Trinity. If you are a Trinitarian, then you would have to see the non-judgemental Jesus who would not even stone a prostitute, as the judgemental O.T. God of Noahs day, --- who will even drown babies and children.
How do you reconcile the O.T. God with the kind, gentle and forgiving Jesus?
Some will point to a new covenant but God himself says that nothing he says will ever be retract and Jesus himself referred back to the old covenant in the bible so lets not argue that please.
Can you picture Jesus doing the vile things that scriptures say he did in the O.T.?
Regards
DL
No more need to 'reconcile' Tanach with Christianity than with Islam, Mormonism, Scientology, or anyone/anything else.
G-d is G-d. Everyone else is charlatan.
20 And God spoke all these words:
2 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
3 You shall have no other gods before[a] me.
- Exodus 20
4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord
- Deuteronomy 6
13 [a]If a prophet, or one who foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a sign or wonder, 2 and if the sign or wonder spoken of takes place, and the prophet says, Let us follow other gods (gods you have not known) and let us worship them, 3 you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. The Lord your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 It is the Lord your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him. 5 That prophet or dreamer must be put to death for inciting rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of slavery. That prophet or dreamer tried to turn you from the way the Lord your God commanded you to follow. You must purge the evil from among you.
- Deuteronomy 13