Is God really the Villain of the Old Testament or has He been wrongly accused? If He has been wrongly accused, who is Responsible for the False Accusation? Part 14
Part 14
If the God we see in the pre-cross era is different than what we see in the person of Jesus...who was the only person to show us God’s true character, we must side with the expressed image of God in Christ, and interpret that Old Testament passage through Jesus if we are going to get the right perspective of God. The Old Testament is not the expression of God or His nature. If you want to know what God is like or how He acts you have to view Him through Jesus Christ. Jesus is the picture that God paints of Himself. And it is only through Jesus that we can properly interpret the Old Testament.
Christendom may say they believe post-cross reality, but in most cased they they live pre-cross ideology in the post-cross era not completely believing all that Christ accomplished by His sacrifice!
We understand that scripture is revealed through “progressive revelation.” That means that God reveals Himself in scripture over time, and not all at once. If we are true to the revelation we know then further revelation will be revealed as long as we keep an open mind for the Spirit to teach us.
The Old Testament writers only saw glimpses of God at a point in time; they did not know Him fully...they didn’t see the big picture, they had no idea what God was going to accomplish through Christ. They were trying to know God by putting together pieces of mixed up puzzle pieces, with some of the pieces missing. It wasn’t until Jesus’ Incarnation that the true understanding of Who God is was finally revealed.
Is it possible that because of a misunderstanding of God, sometimes the Jewish Old Testament writers and figures would attribute the works of Satan to be the works of God? I mean...religious people do that today!
When someone dies many people blame God. When someone is sick, people say God inflicted them. When a disaster happened, people say it is the judgement God.
Because of the lack of understanding of Satan, and sometimes the lack of an acknowledgment that Satan even existed, the Jewish writers saw God as the only other character within the scope of human history, and therefore the only option to blame when something went wrong. They pictured God as making everything happen: both good and evil. The works of Satan became attributed to God. Why is this pre-cross mentality still focal in the post-cross era?
Part 15 to follow
If the God we see in the pre-cross era is different than what we see in the person of Jesus...who was the only person to show us God’s true character, we must side with the expressed image of God in Christ, and interpret that Old Testament passage through Jesus if we are going to get the right perspective of God. The Old Testament is not the expression of God or His nature. If you want to know what God is like or how He acts you have to view Him through Jesus Christ. Jesus is the picture that God paints of Himself. And it is only through Jesus that we can properly interpret the Old Testament.
Christendom may say they believe post-cross reality, but in most cased they they live pre-cross ideology in the post-cross era not completely believing all that Christ accomplished by His sacrifice!
We understand that scripture is revealed through “progressive revelation.” That means that God reveals Himself in scripture over time, and not all at once. If we are true to the revelation we know then further revelation will be revealed as long as we keep an open mind for the Spirit to teach us.
The Old Testament writers only saw glimpses of God at a point in time; they did not know Him fully...they didn’t see the big picture, they had no idea what God was going to accomplish through Christ. They were trying to know God by putting together pieces of mixed up puzzle pieces, with some of the pieces missing. It wasn’t until Jesus’ Incarnation that the true understanding of Who God is was finally revealed.
Is it possible that because of a misunderstanding of God, sometimes the Jewish Old Testament writers and figures would attribute the works of Satan to be the works of God? I mean...religious people do that today!
When someone dies many people blame God. When someone is sick, people say God inflicted them. When a disaster happened, people say it is the judgement God.
Because of the lack of understanding of Satan, and sometimes the lack of an acknowledgment that Satan even existed, the Jewish writers saw God as the only other character within the scope of human history, and therefore the only option to blame when something went wrong. They pictured God as making everything happen: both good and evil. The works of Satan became attributed to God. Why is this pre-cross mentality still focal in the post-cross era?
Part 15 to follow
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