(December 18, 2017 at 11:10 am)Drich Wrote: Are you saying Jesus was the God of the OT? Where is his named mentioned?
Your beside the point is moot, as the command issued are permeate and not up for discussion. as such they/we are locked into a 'morality' the exceeds anything pop culture has instituted apart from God.
You want to talk what if's when change is not possible.
Jesus is supposed to be the god of the old testament or this there another god that you worship?
"In order to truly understand the Scriptures, it is critical to realize that the Lord God of the Old Testament was the one Who was [i]made flesh[/i] and became Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As we will see, “God” in the Old Testament is frequently translated from the Hebrew word [i]elohim[/i], which is a collective [i]plural[/i] noun that refers to a holy [i]family[/i] of spirit beings. Scripture reveals that there are at present [i]two[/i] Who are [i]Elohim[/i]—members of the [b]God Family[/b]: [b]God[/b], Who is called [b]the Father[/b] in the New Testament, and the one Who became Jesus Christ, and is thus now [b]God the Son[/b]. "
https://www.churchathome.org/articles/jesus-christ-lord-god-of-the-old-testament-and-son-of-god.html
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of the Old Testament and Son of God
The family nature of the Godhead is the key to your eternal destiny!
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In order to truly understand the Scriptures, it is critical to realize that the Lord God of the Old Testament was the one Who was made flesh and became Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As we will see, “God” in the Old Testament is frequently translated from the Hebrew word elohim, which is a collective plural noun that refers to a holy family of spirit beings. Scripture reveals that there are at present two Who are Elohim—members of the God Family: God, Who is called the Father in the New Testament, and the one Who became Jesus Christ, and is thus now God the Son.
Who was Jesus? To understand Jesus’ preexistent state, we must go back to the beginning—as brought out by the apostle John. Here, John describes Jesus before He became human. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and not even one thing that was created came into being without Him. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men…. And the Word became flesh, and tabernacled among us (and we ourselves beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten with the Father)…” (John 1:1-4, 14).
If we read no further in the New Testament, we would know with certainty that Jesus was the God of the Old Testament and that He was the one Who created “all things.” But there is so much more evidence. The apostle Paul, for example, shows that the God Who dealt with the nation of Israel was the one Who became Christ. “And they [the children of Israel] all drank of the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them. And that Rock was Christ” (I Cor. 10:4). Moses shows that the “Rock” was the one Who had created Israel. “You forgot the Rock Who brought you forth [from Egypt], and have forgotten the God Who formed you” (Deut. 32:18).
Here, Paul clearly tells us that Christ—not the one later known as God the Father—was the Jehovah that spoke with Moses and led the nation of Israel out of Egypt. Notice what Paul taught the Colossians: “Because by Him [Jesus] were all things created, the things in heaven and the things on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether they be thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or powers; all things were created by Him and for Him. And He is before all, and by Him all things subsist. And He is the Head of the body, the church; Who is the beginning, the firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He Himself might hold the preeminence” (Col. 1:16-18). In Hebrews, he wrote that “God, Who spoke to the fathers at different times in the past and in many ways by the prophets, has spoken to us in these last days by His Son, Whom He has appointed heir of all things, by Whom also He made the worlds; Who, being the brightness of His glory and the exact image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His own power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high” (Heb. 1:1-2).
In a rather cryptic statement, Jesus identified Himself as the “I AM” of the Old Testament. “Jesus said unto them, ‘Truly, truly I say to you, before Abraham was born, I AM’ ” (John 8:58). The statement correlated with the name by which Jehovah revealed Himself to Moses: “And God said to Moses, ‘I AM THAT I AM.’ And He said, ‘Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, “I AM has sent me unto you” ’ ” (Ex. 3:14). Indeed, Jesus existed well “before Abraham.” Just hours before His crucifixion, Jesus prayed, “And now, Father, glorify Me with Your own self, with the glory that I had with You before the world existed” (John 17:5)—referring directly to His preexistent state."
Change is possible where it comes to morality and that is a good thing as because the morality of the old mythical gods was despicable.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.