Just an observation. I was letting my mind do it’s usual. Throwing things around in my head about how we view God today. A thought came up that made me stop and think.

God is God. Right? He says He doesn’t change.

Malachi 3:6 – For I, the Lord, do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

I Thes 5:24 – God, by whom you have been marked out in his purpose, is unchanging and will make it complete.

One verse is Old Testament and the other is New Testament. What crossed my mind was that I’ve always been taught the God of the Old Testament was an angry God. The New Testament picture of God is a loving God.

Of course I have to take into consideration the circumstances of Adamic fall in the OT and then that of Jesus becominng the Last Adam in the NT. The laws of Moses were meant to condemn those that disobeyed, but the NT portrays the doing away with the OT law in favor of the redemptive nature where the law of grace and mercy are written not on tablets of stone, but of the heart of those that believe. We are no longer required to obey the OT law. In the NT we desire to obey by the new nature within us.

Okay, so the question that rose up was this. If God is unchanging and is angry and loving I see these attributes of God as facets that are portrayed by the writers that is justly so by the times these views were written. God did not change. He’s always been God. Perhaps I’ve lost the view I saw when I first thought of this.

It’s just that I think God never hated us. Ever. He had a role to display in the Biblical settings. God would never have sent His Son if He had been angry with all mankind in the OT. I believe He sought after righteous people in the OT. He did it with a plan to create a thread through the OT to bring forth His Son to redemn mankind.

I feel like I’ve missed my whole point, but it was interesting to me that I think the OT and the NT portrayal of God are facets of God. Not how He felt about us. Does that make sense?