Old Testament:>God, KILL ALL MY NIGGER ENEMIES AND THEIR CHILDREN and I will worship you forever New Testament:>We should be merciful to our persecutors >Not a contradiction>Same GodHow do you reconcile this?
>>24788891Just schizo desert jew things
>>24788891There's no way to reconcile it, christards have been coping for almost 2 millennia now.
>>24788891In OT all humans are under the death penalty/ God's curse. The point of NT is changing it.
>>24788902This. End of thread.
>>24788891I'm only human, God's nature is beyond me.
>>24788891Jesus delivers new plans from God
>>24788891Ancient near east was brutal and compromises were made Matthew 19:8 He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way.
>>24788891Samson mogs everyone in old testament except God
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I know next to nothing about Christianity in general, but isn't that like....the entire point of Jesus' death? The forming of a new covenant with god?
>>24788966Yes. Also, during the Old Testament, God was civilizing a tribe of desert raiders contemporary to the godlike Argives of the Iliad, who were basically cattle robbers.They wouldn't take Jesus' message well at the time.
>>24788902So he was merciless, sent himself to earth to change divine laws he knew would be changed by himself...
>>24788966>>24788977
>>24789005Picrel must've been made by a braindead muslim who thinks Mary is apart of the Godhead lmao
>>24788891Killing your enemies is merciful.
>>24788899This, it's a constant cycle of "well ackshually" and gentiles trying to make a desert tribal diety make sense
It's character development
What is so difficult to understand about a new testament?
>>24788891New Testament God is infinitely worse than the Old because Old Testament God just killed you, New Testament God sends you to Hell to suffer unimaginable pain for all eternity