RE: What's with Yahweh's attitude change?
December 2, 2012 at 5:07 pm
(This post was last modified: December 2, 2012 at 5:07 pm by Darkstar.)
(December 2, 2012 at 5:03 pm)Drich Wrote: God is still the God of wrath from the OT. For it is in the OT we learn and understand the absolute nature of God. The events play out so we can understand the relationship between sin and consenquence. Now again God has not changed, what was true then is still true now. What did happen? We have the attonement offered through the blood sacerfice Christ made. In the OT law we have a provision for sin. If one sins they could offer a sacerfice to take place of the sinner. When Christ came and died He became that sacerfice for us. So basically Christ took all of God's wrath upon Himself at the cross. So your sins have been covered, and do not demand instant payment. What that leaves is the choice you make in this life as to where you will spend the next. It's not a verbal one so don't bother naming and claiming. It is a choice of the Heart. Where you heart makes a desision your actions/works will follow suit.
So, basically:
OT - God is angry*; kills everybody
NT - God is angry*; makes Jesus, kills him, feels better
*May or may not have valid reasons to be angry, let alone angry enough to kill