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The New Testament god is the sanitized, expurgated version. Mean doesn't sell as well as nice.Hey everyone. Why is it that the God of the Old Testament seems so much different from the God of the New Testament? I mean, the Lord, Himself, commands the Jews to slay all of the Amalekites, even their infants! I don't understand this.
The New Testament god is the sanitized, expurgated version. Mean doesn't sell as well as nice.
Hey everyone. Why is it that the God of the Old Testament seems so much different from the God of the New Testament? I mean, the Lord, Himself, commands the Jews to slay all of the Amalekites, even their infants! I don't understand this.
The New Testament god is the sanitized, expurgated version. Mean doesn't sell as well as nice.
No, he didn't.Jesus himself didnt always speak of love and mercy
No, that's disingenuous. The Gibeonites tricked the Israelites into making a treaty with them instead of slaughtering them, and Joshua was all kinds of ticked off when he realized he'd been fooled. And then later Saul killed most of them anyway.Many of those people were permitted to remain on the land, and some he even protected such as the Gibeonites who were a cannanite tribe...so he only destroyed nations who absolutely deserved it.
Christianity DIR. Ya, I almost posted too. Too easy to miss that, IMHO, given the name of the forum.
I don't think so. People act like the Jewish God is stern and vengeful and the Christian God is sweet and pacific, but actually reading the Bible doesn't bear that out. The NT God doesn't order massacres, but he's all too eager to throw people into hell. God is kind of a monster in both testaments.
No, that's disingenuous. The Gibeonites tricked the Israelites into making a treaty with them instead of slaughtering them, and Joshua was all kinds of ticked off when he realized he'd been fooled. And then later Saul killed most of them anyway.
Hey everyone. Why is it that the God of the Old Testament seems so much different from the God of the New Testament? I mean, the Lord, Himself, commands the Jews to slay all of the Amalekites, even their infants! I don't understand this.
Babies were killed because the alternative was terrible death from exposure.Hey everyone. Why is it that the God of the Old Testament seems so much different from the God of the New Testament? I mean, the Lord, Himself, commands the Jews to slay all of the Amalekites, even their infants! I don't understand this.
Hey everyone. Why is it that the God of the Old Testament seems so much different from the God of the New Testament? I mean, the Lord, Himself, commands the Jews to slay all of the Amalekites, even their infants! I don't understand this.
Hey everyone. Why is it that the God of the Old Testament seems so much different from the God of the New Testament? I mean, the Lord, Himself, commands the Jews to slay all of the Amalekites, even their infants! I don't understand this.