A few years before my conversion, in the mid-fifties, a book came out entitled, “God is a Dirty Bully,” the reference being to the God of the Old Testament. It still was the talk among preachers and the theme of writers, even after my salvation.
But just one scripture from the Almighty’s mouth settles this fallacy, “For I am the LORD, I change not.” He is “The same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.” Our God is the same God of the two Testaments.
All that the New Testament writers had before then in referencing God was the Old Testament. When they wrote of God’s love, mercy, compassion, grace, longsuffering, etc., it was to the God of the Old Testament they were pointing.
Both Testaments display the “goodness and severity of God.” He’s the God of eternal principles; they don’t fluctuate. The God of Wrath in the Old is also seen there as the God of Love; and the God of Love in the New, as the God of Wrath.
The religious crowd of our day, along with the media, tell us we’re to live according to the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7). Meaning the “Blessed’s” of Matthew chapter six. But what of being cast into“Hell,” in chapter five?
As A.W. Tozer says, “It take two wings to fly.” Many New Testament Christians downplay the Old Testament and the Jew excludes the New Testament. Either way, you’ll never get off the ground. Whenever one says, “It is written,” there needs be a, “Again, it is written!”
The only difference between the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament, is the God of the New Testament has skin on Him~rds
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