Christianity Offially on the UP in England and Wales

[tibilicus]

The overriding theme in the Old Testament is how God chooses a small, defenceless people and leads them out of slavery, provides for them in the wilderness, and gives them a bright and prosperous future in the 'Promised Land'.

On the other hand, the much more apocalyptic viewpoint of the New Testament is based around the idea that God is going to completely destroy the earth and all its inhabitants.

The God of the Old Testament is really not more brutal than that of the New.

You probably understand it better than I do seeming your a practising Christian but I always thought the general theme was that OT God smited those on a regular basis who disobeyed him whilst the NT God is more "do what you like, just remember your going to hell for it".

Guess that has something to do with the OT God intervening directly in our world and the NT God working through Jesus though.

[rory_20_uk]

Are we editing out how God's chosen systematically slaughtered others near and far in the Old Testament with God's help?

[Beskar]

Are we editing out how God's chosen systematically slaughtered others near and far in the Old Testament with God's help?

I like Numbers 31, where they committed genocide, leaving only the virgin young females, which they took for themselves. Even conducted Human Sacrifice as well.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Are we editing out how God's chosen systematically slaughtered others near and far in the Old Testament with God's help?

Of course not, I was just pointing to examples of God being 'nice' in the OT. Also remember despite the perception below:

Guess that has something to do with the OT God intervening directly in our world and the NT God working through Jesus though.

God doesn't intervene directly in much of the OT. Indeed the God felt the Israelites were becoming too confident in their own abilities to win the conflict, and that's why he told Gideon to purge his army before they fought the Midianites. When God did intervene directly, it was stuff like parting the Red Sea or the Jordan River, or providig manna to eat etc.