Will God change again?

Question

Often when you point out the atrocities of the Old Testament, apologists will insist that we shouldn't focus on those things, because Jesus came along and changed it all, made it better, nicer, friendlier.

So God had one set of rules and procedures and then decided to change. How do we know he's not going to change his policies again?

If he does, what do you think the new God will be like? Will he go back to being a jerk and killing innocents? Promoting slavery? Or will he go in a completely different random direction?

Answer 1

God changes his policies according to his human inventors' whims.

Answer 2

Hopefully he'll change to total eradication from our culture.  This culture of self-serving wealth-gathering can't last too much longer anyhow; hopefully the community-based true progress that will come afterward won't include any God hokeyness.

Bye-bye, God!

Answer 3

We will have to wait and see.

Answer 4

God hasn't changed. Sin is still sin.You need to read what has changed. The change is that we are no longer held under the penalty of sin.

Answer 5

Listen to me Be a christian and use the NEW testament as a guideline for your life, the old testament is full of symbolism so it isnt clear cut

Answer 6

Jesus hasn't changed.  Obviously, you've never read Isaiah 63, Zechariah 14 or Revelation 19-20 regarding the Second Coming.

Nor have you read in the OT that God ALWAYS pleads with sinners to repent before He punishes them.

Answer 7

Yes, God evolves, incorporating past experience and future dreams. God seeks goodness and delights in hope.

Answer 8

How do you know he "changed"?

Answer 9

the new God will be a computer Virus.

Answer 10

HE NEVER CHANGES AND THIS BLASPHEMY....GOD CAN DO WHATEVER HE WANTS SINCE HE IS THE KING AND THE GIVER OF LIFE....IVE GOT NEWS FOR YOU....THOSE WHO REJECT God will severely regret it!!!!!!!

Answer 11

The atrocities in the OT are committed by men.  At the times where God commands the death of any human being it is because that human being is, or is part of a culture of murderous immorality.  For God to take life is not an atrocity, He freely gives life with no guarantees of how long we will live.  He can take life at any time.  

Wm Wilburforce spent his entire life seeking to end slavery in the British empire based on a strong commitment to the entire Bible.  So who do you think understands God's view of slavery, you or one of the greatest men of the 19th century.

The only thing random is your hermeneutic.

Answer 12

Yes, the image of god that humans have created continually changes and evolves into an image people can make sense of.

First fear ruled, then they tried compassion, now they'll try enlightened.

(which is actually a nice change...)

Answer 13

God is the same- yesterday, today and forever.

Answer 14

Since he is made by men, they will always try to adapt god to their political needs.

Answer 15

     God has never changed from the beginning all the way till the end, which he is preparing the world for his sons return.

     Man is the one who changes.  Even in our modern society, ones faith in God is weak compared to his faith in his idols, of metal, stone, and gems.

     Instead of have gladiators or leaders to worship our society have hero's and movie stars and people of wealth and fame.

     When God cleanses the earth this time, all evil shall be taken and destroyed, for the meek are about to inherit the earth.  And those left behind shall work and live amongst angels, and family members who shall return who were found worthy of God to retain their bodies of flesh as Jesus did and live out eternity with Christ who shall be the ruler of this world, which will in time will be celestialized by the word of God.

     May God have mercy on our souls.

Answer 16

The human idea of "god" is always changing. People used to worship the sun, moon, etc. Then they worshipped various gods, such as Zeus etc. Thousands of years from now, it will seem just as silly to people in the future that people today worshipped someone named Jesus as it does to us that people worshipped a lightning god up on a mountain.