Did God Change In The New Testament?
Did God change in the New Testament is good question that deserves a good answer. I have blogged on this before, but am glad to say it again here.
Now, first point from Hebrews 13:8:
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Therefore, God does not change. However, the Old Testament seems so different than the New Testament.
God is thundering on the mountain in Exodus and welcoming the little children to come to him in the gospels.Is their actual change?
Where did God first say love your neighbor as yourself?
Where did God first say to love God with your heart, soul, and strength?
Leviticus 19:18 says:
18 “‘Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.
Deuteronomy 6:5 says:
5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
Jesus did not make up these cores ideas in the Gospels.
Did Jesus thunder? Yes, Look at John 2:13-17
13 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. 15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16 To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!” 17 His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”[a]
God struck people dead in the Old Testament. Did He in the New Testament?
Yes, See him in Acts 5.
4 Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human beings but to God.”
5 When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died. And great fear seized all who heard what had happened. 6 Then some young men came forward, wrapped up his body, and carried him out and buried him.
God hates sin and always will. There are tough words and events in the New Testament and in the Old.
Did God Change in the New Testament? No!
As seen above, even un Leviticus and Deuteronomy we can find sweet words to cause us to sign.
The long death of the Israelite nation as they failed God is all in Bible. If the Bible covered the 1000-1400’s AD, it could lament for hundreds of pages. We just did not add to the Bible to show that God hated sin then and hates sin now. When the church falls away, God hates that always.
Finally, God has always hated sin. He has always loved people He created. To those who will seek his forgiveness and repent, he gives forgiveness through Jesus death for their sins. In the Old Testament God saw people with faith and they will be saved just like us. God did not change. But Jesus death did change everything. His Death and Resurrection is the main thing, See more here.
