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Angry God
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Someone asked me the question:
"Why was Jesus nice but the Old Testament God angry?"
My answer:
"Jesus and God are the same - Father and Son are of one heart. It's not as if Jesus was trying to pacify an angry Father.
So then why was God angry in the Old Testament?
It's because the law brings wrath and a curse for those who cannot obey it.
(Romans 4, Galatians 3)
Why did God put man under the law?
It's because man wanted to become perfect and righteous like God by doing good and avoiding evil.
Man did not accept that God simply loved him the way he was but man attempted to gain God's blessing through perfect conduct.
This was the fall of Adam.
When the written law came to Israel....3000 died on the day they received the 10 commandments....
God never wanted man to be under the law and it's wrath.
God's nature is LOVE and not wrath.
But man wanted the law and it's justice....and could never be saved from it's judgment
So then God became a man - in the form of Jesus and He fulfilled the law perfectly...and then He took the punishment of the law on the behalf mankind on the cross.
The law remained from the Cross till the Judgment day.
That is why you see the judgment of Ananias/Sapphira. It's because the Church was under the law.
Then in the 2nd coming in 70aD was the judgment day for those who refused to believe in Christ but held on to the law. They faced the self-appointed wrath that they deserved from the law.
At that time God made a new covenant to never remember sin any more....there is no more judgment.
It's because the law ended in the destruction of Jerusalem and it's Temple in 70AD.
Romans 4 - there is no wrath where there is no law !
The true nature of God has been revealed to humanity AFTER the judgment day - LOVE that does not keep record of wrongs -
"I will remember their sin no more" - Heb 10:17
This is the NEW COVENANT...The old has passed away !"
There is no more judgment - that's why you don't see anyone falling dead in the churches like Ananias/Sapphira today.
God loves everyone unconditionally !"
Angry God
Note:
Someone asked me the question:
"Why was Jesus nice but the Old Testament God angry?"
My answer:
"Jesus and God are the same - Father and Son are of one heart. It's not as if Jesus was trying to pacify an angry Father.
So then why was God angry in the Old Testament?
It's because the law brings wrath and a curse for those who cannot obey it.
(Romans 4, Galatians 3)
Why did God put man under the law?
It's because man wanted to become perfect and righteous like God by doing good and avoiding evil.
Man did not accept that God simply loved him the way he was but man attempted to gain God's blessing through perfect conduct.
This was the fall of Adam.
When the written law came to Israel....3000 died on the day they received the 10 commandments....
God never wanted man to be under the law and it's wrath.
God's nature is LOVE and not wrath.
But man wanted the law and it's justice....and could never be saved from it's judgment
So then God became a man - in the form of Jesus and He fulfilled the law perfectly...and then He took the punishment of the law on the behalf mankind on the cross.
The law remained from the Cross till the Judgment day.
That is why you see the judgment of Ananias/Sapphira. It's because the Church was under the law.
Then in the 2nd coming in 70aD was the judgment day for those who refused to believe in Christ but held on to the law. They faced the self-appointed wrath that they deserved from the law.
At that time God made a new covenant to never remember sin any more....there is no more judgment.
It's because the law ended in the destruction of Jerusalem and it's Temple in 70AD.
Romans 4 - there is no wrath where there is no law !
The true nature of God has been revealed to humanity AFTER the judgment day - LOVE that does not keep record of wrongs -
"I will remember their sin no more" - Heb 10:17
This is the NEW COVENANT...The old has passed away !"
There is no more judgment - that's why you don't see anyone falling dead in the churches like Ananias/Sapphira today.
God loves everyone unconditionally !"
