xingu wrote:Rex
Frank is right. The God of the Bible is evil. He has proven that by his works. You can't dismiss this evil by making two Gods. If your going to claim your a Christian then you have to believe that Christ and the God of the Old testament are one in the same.
This statement of yours;
Quote:Frank you have magnified an evil God so you only comprehend this evil God. You cannot see the mystery at work underneath it all.
goes against what the Bible says; the existence of one and only one God.
I have seen so called Christians do this before. They are appalled by the barbarism of the OT God and reject him. They say they believe in the NT only. Some even reject Revelations because of the evilness shown by its God.
If your going to look at contradictions in the Bible this good God vs. evil God is one of the great ones. You can't declare God to be pure love and have him slaughter innocent children and babies.
If you want to converse intelligently with me please start reading and studying my posts.
I have taught this TWO GOD thing several times here on A2K
Then who is "the God (Gr. theos) of this world"? DO YOU HAVE AN ANSWER FOR THAT?
I can say without one shred of doubt that BOTH you and Frank are, WRONG!
You are conversing with someone who has studied this Bible for over twenty years almost every day.
I can tell you confidently there are TWO GODS in the Bible...
You have not been READING my posts...
The God of this world and the one true God.
The FALSE God and the ONE TRUE God.
Now you and Frank have already made up your minds as to which God was "killing babies" and hunting down adulterers and homos with rocks.
So why reconsider anything, TRUTH maybe?
Jesus Christ revealed the One true God AND the god of this world.
NOW if Jesus had to reveal the DIFFERENCE in the gospel administration and you are stuck in the OT adminstration logic BEFORE it was revealed then it is no wonder why you do NOT KNOW the one true God...
The gift of the holy spirit POWER that came to all believers on the day of Pentecost came WITHIN the spirit. One POWER of the spirit was the manifestation to "DISCERN SPIRITS".
Without discerning of spirits the OT "gods" were MOST often perceived as ONE...
Just as a child hides the spanking paddle thinking it is the paddle that does the discipline not the hand the guides the paddle.
So as the law was just a stick of wood that is roughly hewn to discipline humans until the spirit guide fully came.
Jesus Christ was under the law (but he saw the law more compassionately)we are not under this law this is why we can see the two Gods clearly.
Now you can go on in your confusion for the rest of your life or you can give the words of Jesus and the countless mentions of TWO GODS posing as deities throughout the Bible some careful IMPARTIAL consideration.
2Co 4:4
In whom the
god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Comment:
Are you saying the ONE True God BLINDED minds from hearing the GLORIOUS Gospel of Christ, his own DEAR son. Ridiculous!
THINK ABOUT IT AGAIN...
So you perceive the mixed OT Gods as one and don't believe the NT revelation of the True God revealed through his son who was the "image" of the one true God?
Sounds like you want a baby killer for a God so you can reject God more easily...
THERE ARE TWO GODS IN THE BIBLE!!!
Adam gave DOMINION over the earth to the devil! Dominion, the DOM part is from kingDOM...
The devil offered Jesus the kingDOMs of the world.
Jesus did not tell the devil he did not own the power of them...
KINGDOMS of the world? That would make the Devil a God to us?
We see how the devil was all chummy buddy buddy with God in the book of Job.?
Yet in the new testament clearly teaches "God has no conversation with evil".
2Co 6:14
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what
fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what
communion hath light with darkness?
Comment:
Your boat is sinking, hopefully Frank is bailing water like hell!
So did the OT lie about who God was? NO, NO, NO!
The OT PROPERLY portrayed people and the way they perceived "God". When they are NOT born of spirit WITHIN but only have spirit UPON them "conditionally" (law) then OT is how one sees God.
I can't explain it any clearer than that.
You would take the word of theists over the actual written word of God?
"THE GOD (theos) OF THIS WORLD"... Have your INFALLIBLE theists explain that one.