Why the personality change in God from Old to New testament?

God seems to have a huge personality swing from Old to New Testament





God of the Old Testament was mean-spirited and quick to anger. In contrast, Jesus in the New Testament is the essence of Love, Tolerance, Patience and Compassion.





How do i as a Christian resolve this in my logical mind?Why the personality change in God from Old to New testament?
There is no difference.





The mean-spirited God of the OT killed Ananias and Saphira in the NT because they lied about a piece of land they sold. The loving God of the NT forgave David for murder and adultery in the OT. There are countless other examples.





Jesus had compassion on those who came to him that were sick, but went postal in the temple and overturned the tables of the moneychangers. He invited all who were burdened to lay their burdens on him, but called the pharisees ';snakes'; and ';blind guides';.





I think you just need to read more closely.Why the personality change in God from Old to New testament?
He went through therapy.
4000 years between editions.


Completely different group of writers.
However you like; if you haven't read it (and clearly you haven't), it doesn't matter - you'll do what you like.
Cause god isn't perfect.
its the same God, there is a different intent for his revelations to us in the New Testament then in the old.
all things change when you sacrifice your own son to save


everyone....
Back then it was ok to think of god as a mean, jealous beast. Now all of a sudden he is a kind loving god that wouldn't harm a fly. The people of our times decided what god is, what god does and what god likes and dislikes.
New writers and editors.
Better PR. But HIS real nature just comes through now and again, the act is not perfect. Then Jesus says strange things like ';all the old rules still apply, suckas.';
different authors. it's one of the many irresolvable conflicts with religious life. just get some great bible quotes, so if anyone asks you, you can spout them back at them, or just say ';because the bible says so';, that works for everything.
Because, Jesus was not God, but the son of God.
I have the unfortunate task of advising you that you CAN NOT resolve this logically. It is IMPOSSIBLE!
God and Jesus are one, so to think that God suddenly changed from being 'mean' to being 'mr. nice guy' is just ridiculous! God is not only a God of love, but also a God of wrath and judgment, which is something people forget very easily - or they choose to just shrug it off as if it's not true. The words that God spoke in the OT are also the words of Jesus Christ because Jesus and God are one. God is unchangeable as is Jesus Christ. To say that Jesus was 'soft' or more 'lenient' than God, then that would suggest that Jesus and God disagree or have a conflict there, but that is not correct. Jesus and God are BOTH unchangeable.





1Jn 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.


1Jn 5:8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.


1Jn 5:9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.








God punished those people in the OT - the people that perished in the flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, Pharoah and the Egyptians, etc. All because of their defiance against God and their rejection of God, He punished them - destroyed them. It's not mean - it's judgment - and God's judgments are righteous and just. He is a just and perfect God, but again, people forget very easily that God isn't just about love, but also of wrath and judgment. Those that are outside of Christ will be judged and punished unless they are saved by Christ before they die.





Deu 32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.





Job 21:30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.





Psa 79:6 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.





Pro 11:23 The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.





Isa 13:9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.


Jud 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
He had a baby. Made him soft. Same thing happened to my husband.
In the times of the OT people went far away from God. They worshiped stone and wood - idols. Even the people of Israel fell for that. There were very few people in the world who were righteous. Like in the time of Noah. Imagine to have your children turn their backs to you after you have done so much for them.





When Christ, the Logos, was incarnated, He came to show us the love God has for us and which we had rejected. We still did since we crucified Him, Who humbled Himself and came on earth to save us. However the Gospel of love was given to us because in His Omniscience God knew that there would be many who would turn to Him, since we saw Him in flesh as Theanthropos (God-Man)
There was no change in God from the Old to the New Testament. God in the Old Testament professed love, and Jesus professed curses and judgment in the New Testament.





Matthew 11:23


And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to the skies? No, you will go down to the depths. If the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.





( Yes that's right, even Sodom - that city my brethren often claim that homosexuality is so much worse than what they do.)
There is no change of personality whatsoever. The change is in the condition of Mankind. Jesus Christ bore away the corporate guilt of humanity in His own body when He died upon the cross.


God's wrath against sin has not abated one iota - otherwise Jesus could have made it commendable to God if any one could. No, God spent His wrath against the sinless Lamb of God so you could be forgiven and escape the damnation that you (and I) so richly deserve.





';Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.';


II Corinthians 5:17-21
You think 40 years is quick to anger?





You think 1000 years is quick to anger?





God did not change. As a matter of fact, He did precisely what He said He was going to do. He promised a deliverer from the time that Adam and Eve were expelled from the garden. He was also not mean-spirited. Sending progressive plagues to get a man to stop the horrors of slavery wasn't mean-spirited. It was justice.





I'd really like some clarification on where exactly you're seeing this, honestly.
God in the OT never was mean. Read the bible carefully, especially Jones, n you'd see that the anger was directed for the bad guys, n love for the good guys.





Jesus in the NT was not ';God.'; If he did exist, he was a man deified by his followers.
Zeus mellowed out when he got older. Hera kind of put him in place.
He got some from Mary and had a kid. That tends to settle you down.
God NEVER changes..... your perspective is jacked....





the old testament = God's demand for 100% perfection 100% of the time





the new testament = that God sent Jesus to meet the demand and IMPUTES righteousness TO US....
Even in the Old Testament God spoke through the prophets and said that he desired mercy insted of sacrifice and that they looked to a new and better covenant.


Did you ever wonder why there quit being prophets for the Jewish people, could it be because the last prophet given was the Son of God who is now seated on his throne.
God in the Old Testament wasn't mean spirited. He was frustrated with His people. Jesus also got angry numerous times in the New Testament. It's not as black and white as you make it out.


In spite of that, I agree with you that there is a difference. I think it's because the people that Jesus dealt with in the New Testament had been justified by faith and were right with God. The people in the Old Testament were in training to produce the Savior and lead the way to redemption. Boot camp leaders are always tough....
The NT is the beginning of HIS New Covenant. Under this covenant, GOD rules with grace and truth through HIS SPIRIT. Under the law, HE was a strict ruler WHO held to the letter of the Law.
first of all you say god of the old testament and Jesus in the new testament.they are two seperate beings.(father and son) which is why they have different personalities. and saying God is quick to anger is opposite if what the bible says.


Jehovah, Jehovah, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abundant in loving-kindness and truth, preserving loving-kindness for thousands, pardoning error and transgression and sin.'; Don't you agree that getting to know about these qualities of God draws us to him and makes us want to know more about him as a person?
Man's evolving outlook on what a God should be and how the gods relate to man. Early religions were pessimistic, assigning human traits to gods including faults and wickedness.
The OT was written for the Jews, the new for the followers of Jesus Christ, since he was about to give up his human life as a ransom sacrifice to atone for the sins of Adam and Eve, it changed the relationship we could have with our Father Jehovah. Instead of the Law Covenant, we would have in the future the circumcision of the heart, so love was accentuated over a rigid set of rules.
Because people change.....
God doesn't exist, so he couldn't have changed.





All that changed was the culture which invented God.


They reinvented him, and called him Jesus.





EZ