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Bucks County Seventh-day Adventist Church
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Pastor's Blog - 2008/08/02 
An emerging thought is that God revealed Himself in the Old Testament as a parent would to a young child; but as we (God's people) matured over time, He was able to reveal, as it were, His more true self in the New Testament. The OT picture being a God that commands, conquers, and kills. The NT revelation maybe being best summarized in "love your enemy" or "turn the other cheek." The immediate problem is that this discredits what I have read about God in the OT, demoting Him below the God of the NT. Our "OT God" must fully be Himself, or we are contradicting our claims to the entirety of Scripture. Without taking another step, I should say that it is cogent that God is emotional and has made love the most powerful of agents - and He has invited us to be participants in both of these.
Isaiah 40 makes it clear in my mind that the God of the OT is the same in the NT. Much of what propels this thought is the relativistic philosophy of today. In order to marry this philosophy and Christianity, we need to make God much more passive and less peremptory. Somewhere we have gotten the notion that being like Jesus is different from strict and ready obedience. Rather than dissuading us from embracing the God of the OT, the NT picture convinces us that He is good and that casts us into His expressed will, feeling or not.
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