Either God enjoys worship songs about babies being smashed on rocks (Psalms 137:9), or Davids revelation of God was flawed (to say the least) and incomplete. Either unjust behavior causes God to deny rain to those who do wrong and worship other gods (Deut 11:16-18), or Jesus was wrong in saying that God sends rain upon the just and the unjust (Matt 5:45), and Paul was wrong in telling the inhabitants of Lystra (idolaters who had just moments before attempted to offer sacrifices to Paul and Barnabas) that it was God who gave them rain from heaven (Acts 14:17). Either God enjoyed the sight of slaughtered animals, or Jesus was wrong in saying that God never desired them, nor were they His will (Heb 10:5-10). My point is simple - Jesus Christ is the perfect revelation of God, not the words of Moses, or the prophets. This is not in any way contradictory to the scriptures, for it is the scriptures themselves that testify to this fact. If the revelation of Gods nature contained in the Old Testament was so flawless, then why did Jesus show us a Father, who, in many instances, looks like the polar opposite of the sword wielding, blood spilling God of the Old Testament? Is the God of the New Testament the God of the Old? Yes, of course for there is only one God. However, in the Old Testament God had no face. In Jesus, He does. We have the writings of men who were scrambling to catch a glimpse of Him, but who were truly clueless when it came to His nature. Some would read these words and mistake me as saying that we pitch the parts of the Bible we disagree with. No, not at all. What Im saying is that we must read them properly, and the way that Christ and the Apostles would have intended for us to read them. When we read the Old Testament scriptures, we HAVE TO DO SO in light of Jesus, or we are not reading them correctly. We cherish the scriptures, for in them we find a progressive revelation of God that has its climax in the person of Jesus. To think that Moses revelation was even on par with that which Jesus revealed is to miss the point entirely. Jesus is the word made flesh. JOHN 1:17-18 17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.
Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 00:56:42 +0000
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