(December 3, 2012 at 9:30 am)John V Wrote:(December 2, 2012 at 12:49 pm)TaraJo Wrote: Compare the Old Testament to the New Testament and you notice a pretty drastic changethere. OT god is a vengeful God, smiting people for any little infraction. NT god just kinda sits back and says "You'll get yours in the afterlife."You're cherry picking. Read the Psalms and Revelation.
Marcionism was founded on the disconnect beween the two gods.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcionism
Quote:Marcion believed Jesus Christ was the savior sent by God, and Paul of Tarsus was his chief apostle, but he rejected the Hebrew Bible and the God of Israel. Marcionists believed that the wrathful Hebrew God was a separate and lower entity than the all-forgiving God of the New Testament. This belief was in some ways similar to Gnostic Christian theology; notably, both are dualistic, that is, they posit opposing gods, forces, or principles: one higher, spiritual, and "good", and the other lower, material, and "evil" (compare Manichaeism), in contrast to the orthodox Christian view that "evil" has no independent existence, but is a privation or lack of "good",[2] a view shared by the eminent Jewish theologian Moses Maimonides.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
