I thought Jesus was also a Jew?
Also, why would god unwrite the Old Testament and replace it with the New? Did he misspeak, or make a mistake somewhere? Why is the Jesus version of god so unlike the previous version?
What I meant when I said a Jew was a religious Jew that follows Judaism, oops.
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I'll attempt to answer your other question, but I'm no scholar or expert and I've only been a Christian for roughly a year so don't expect to get the best answer from me. First understand that God is unchanging, God's attributes don't ever change. It's a misconception to think that God is different in the OT and the NT. God's love and God's wrath are found in both. Jesus is the fulfillment of the old covenant, expanding God's covenant with all people under a new relationship. God's wrath upon sin demands death. God's wrath was poured on Jesus as he bore the sins of the world. Jesus took the eternal wrath of God, and poured onto us eternal love. For God so loved the world...
Ask a pastor or a Bible scholar if you want a more detailed explanation.
http://www.gotquestions.org/God-different.html
Isn't Jesus supposed to be the human manifestation of Yahweh.. the main character of the Old Testament?
Doesn't Jesus saying: “Eli, Eli,c lemasabachthani?” Kinda prove that Jesus was not the manifestation of God?
Is Jesus not the same God as the O.T. God?
Do you not buy into that foolish Trinity concept?
Regards
DL
The Father and the Son are different in that they have different roles, however in essence they are the same in the sense that they are both God. Just like ice and water are both H20, they are different but the same in essence.
The Lion and the Lamb.
Sure but you can kill as he does. Are you ready to stone unruly children?
John 8:2 Now early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and He sat down and taught them. 3 Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, 4 they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?” 6 This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear. (a theory, by oral tradition and legend, says that Jesus wrote the sins of the Pharisees in the sand)
7 So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.” 8 And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. 9 Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. 10 When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, “Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?”
11 She said, “No one, Lord.”
And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.”
12 Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” NJKV
The story of Abraham and his son does beg the question of what God would have done if Abraham wasn't prepared to kill his son..
Abraham didn't come to his senses.. God said: 12 “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”
God already knew Abraham would be willing to sacrifice his son. It's a wonderful story that parallels and foreshadows the Father God's willingness to sacrifice his Son.
Genesis 22:2 Then God said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”
3: So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son
4: Then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place afar off.
8: And Abraham said, “My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.”
9: Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood. NKJV
Abraham was to offer his only son whom he loved, compared to God's one and only Son being offered as a sacrifice out of love. Abraham took Issac and 2 others, this parallels with God taking Jesus and the 2 others crucified next to him. It took Abraham's journey 3 days, Jesus raised again from the dead in 3 days. Isaac was to be scarified upon the wood, Jesus was crucified on a wooden cross. Abraham tells his son that God will provide a lamb for a sacrifice. Jesus is the Lamb that was the ultimate sacrifice. Lastly, the highest mountain in “the land of Moriah” where Abraham was to sacrifice his son could possibly be Golgotha where Jesus was crucified.
Gnostic Bishop said:
Note how he ignored the O.P. and deflected instead.
I answered all your questions. Do you want me to clarify? Are we made in God's image? Yes.
