Did God change between Testaments?

[Blasterisk]

Isn't it true that the God of the New Testament said

Do not hate your brother in your heart.

and

love your neighbor as yourself

But isn't it also true that the God of the Old Testament said

if anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers, such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.

and

that servant which knows his master's will and does not get ready or does not do what his master wants will be beaten with many blows.

So, did the unchangeable change?

 

[King Fructose]

He was just having a bad day.

 

[HarveyMCR]

I love my brother. I love my brother with all my heart. If my brother became a pedophile child rapist, I would support him being locked away forever. Not out of a hatred for my brother, but out of a respect for what is right.

 

[Wine em Dine em 69 em]

The OT god was kind of a dick.

 

[BIG BILL HELL'S]

The OT god was kind of a dick.

"Dude, you used to be cool, what happened?"

 

[Zero Day Defense]

No, Marcion.

 

[TenMilesWide]

Absolutely, He changed because the sensibilities and situations of the people writing the book changed. Living in bronze age OT times presented a different set of problems to living in Jesus times, and the people needed a different set of solutions.

 

[Freya]

god is trans

 

[Sundae]

I heard someone say once that the reason God changed between the testaments is because he got laid. Having Jesus mellowed him out some.

 

[Certified_Autist]

No, they didn't "change", God doesn't change. The differences are because the OT and NT reference two different beings. The existence of two separate divine beings with conflicting and contradictory natures is even strongly implied in several places in the OT.

The Demiurge is not God, Jesus is not the son of the Demiurge He is the Son of God.

 

[Next Task]

Being a parent changes you. Everyone says that.

 

[AMHOLIO]

Better pray church officials didn't hear you say that

 

[I fucking love Cocaine]

Yeah, that got retconned in the sequel. Damn writers should have stick with the original material!

 

[Alligator Alcatraz]

The Lord realized that having angels carry out His word was challenging because angels are frightening, multi-dimensional beings that had to always say "be not afraid" everytime a human sees them. As a result, Jesus became the new conveyer because Jesus was a regular man the people can relate to.

Like take Ezekiel for example. Nobody gonna be calm when this shit approaches them.

 

[Fek]

The "God" of the Old Testament belongs to a very, very old idea of a patriarchal, violent, vengeful, petty-yet-protective god from a people not even mentioned within said testament. It was simply adopted by another group who felt powerless to defend themselves properly due to a somewhat self-imposed perpetual victimhood complex.

The God mentioned by the stories/teachings in the New Testament is (sort of) more in line with the right idea, though the message is still heavily distorted thanks to shit like the Council of Nicaea.

 

[Penis Drager]

Like take Ezekiel for example. Nobody gonna be calm when this shit approaches them.

Friendly reminder that the people in Sodam wanted to fuck those things.

 

[scathefire]

The Old Testament god was the demiurge, who's a massive dick and did create the universe but isn't even the real god. According to Gnostics anyway

 

[Roxanne Wolf]

I think of it as OT God having anger management issues, and by the time NT came around, he turned a new leaf just in time to have a son.

 

[Blasterisk]

Buncha biblical lightweights you guys are, the first two quotes are Leviticus, followed by John and Luke.

Because nobody picked up on that, I will have to answer my own question with this final quotation:

But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’

 

[DaBigBopper]

Old Testament was mostly about a wandering tribe that kept fucking up and worshiping foreign deities that many times accepted human sacrifices. Leviticus mostly is a book about a lot of civil and moral codes from when Moses was getting pissed at Jews for fucking up to when Persia started scattering Jews to the wind.
You can argue if Moses was real or not, I don't care and it's not really important for me to argue that. Leviticus is a really long book written over a very long time by leaders who got tired of belly aching.

Read Psalms and Sirrach and compare those with the NT. The Old Testament differs because the Jews at that time were facing possible annhilation and genocide, the New Testament deals with the Roman Empire which wanted Jews to submit to their authority and pay taxes. Arguably the Romans were worse because taxes and all that, but Jews didn't have to worry about getting killed because a foreign king wanted to expand his territory so that his sons wouldn't cause a bloody civil war after he died.