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Did God change from a wrathful God to a loving God between Old Testament and New Testament?
If you read the whole Bible from Genesis to Revelation, you'll notice:
God's consistent character, who is compassionate and merciful to those who love and fear Him but who pours out His wrath to ...
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Did God change from a wrathful God to a loving God between Old Testament and New Testament?
There was a gap of about 400 years between the two Testaments, with the OT covering a vast time span, from creation till then. Taking the time from after the Flood, that alone has been variously ...
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Did God change from a wrathful God to a loving God between Old Testament and New Testament?
Wrath is an important part of God's nature. I think a good way into answering this question is to ask the question, 'What did Jesus save us from?'
They tell how you turned to God from idols to serve ...
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Did God change from a wrathful God to a loving God between Old Testament and New Testament?
Paul explains there are two covenants. First we need to understand them.
Galatians 4:21-26
21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law? 22 For it is written that Abraham ...
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Is this distinction of biblical "love" terminology compatible with scripture?
The commonly held understanding is partially correct, but overstated. In reality, the semantic range of the words is broader.
Agape
It is true that the words ἀγαπάω (agapaó) and ἀγάπη (agapé) came ...
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Why is the Bible seemingly silent on the love which the God the Son has for God the Father?
I believe that the answer to this is something related to the narrative's approach.
We can infer from what we know about the godhead, that the Son loves the Father, but the focus in the gospels ...
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Does the Catholic Church rank the cardinal virtues?
From the Recapitulatio of Fr. Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P.'s De Virtutibus Theologicis (p. 20), a commentary on St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica II-II, he gives the following categorization ...
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What is the difference between "love one another" and "love your neighbour"?
Wikipedia gives a brief overview of how the commandment has generally been seen as "new." It accords with what I've heard through the years:
The "New Commandment", the Wycliffe Bible Commentary ...
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What is the biblical basis for the belief that God loves individuals?
First, does God love any individuals particularly?
Job believed that he would stand face to face with God, who would hear his complaint and grant him justice. God appeared and spoke to him, and ...
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Did God change from a wrathful God to a loving God between Old Testament and New Testament?
A cursory reading of the Bible -- the punishments in the Old Testament vs. Jesus' miracles and forgiveness of sins in the New Testament -- can lead one to the conclusion that God is full of wrath in ...
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What is the biblical basis for the belief that God likes or feels affection toward us?
John 3:16:
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Romans 8:16-17:
The Spirit itself ...
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In Reformed theology, what exactly does the doctrine of "limited atonement" actually assert?
For any of the so-called five points of Calvinism, it is usually best and clearest to go to their original expression in the Canons of Dort. In the 17th century, the followers of Arminius promulgated ...
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Will we still feel affection towards others when we are in heaven?
We are not quite sure how our affectivity (emotions, passions, and so on) will work in Heaven before the General Resurrection, however the Church teaches dogmatically that all human beings will ...
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Is God more just than he is love? (Catholic perspective)
St. Thomas Aquinas (Catholic perspecitve) tells us that within God, all His 'attributes' have to be, within Himself, identical. Due to divine simplicity.
Here are my personal thoughts, as a Catholic, ...
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John 3:16 vs 1 John 2:15
The Greek word used in both verses is ‘kosmos’ but, according to the context in which it is used, it has different meanings. The following explanation is from a Protestant perspective.
Kosmos, or ...
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Why does God not love Satan if He tell us to love our enemies to be as His Children (Luke 6:35-36)?
Here is my short answer. And please bear in mind, that when I (and others) disagree with some of your points, that is not us trying to "censor" you "just because you don't like my question". People ...
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Did God change from a wrathful God to a loving God between Old Testament and New Testament?
People see this wrathful God in the OT and then think he does an about face in the NT. Unfortunately, what people fail to realize is that the wrath of God still exists. A perfect God by nature would ...
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Why does God not love Satan if He tell us to love our enemies to be as His Children (Luke 6:35-36)?
Why does God not love Satan if He tell us to love our enemies to be as His Children (Luke 6:35-36)?
The short answer is: God is love (1 John 4:7-21).
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is ...
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Did God change from a wrathful God to a loving God between Old Testament and New Testament?
The question 'Did God change ?' seeks answers from those who 'believe God does not change' and the question seeks to resolve 'two seemingly opposite manifestations of God's nature'.
I am answering as ...
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Did God change from a wrathful God to a loving God between Old Testament and New Testament?
God has always been a merciful and compassionate. You can see this in a number of places of the Old Testament. For example, when Moses asks to see God, God tells Moses His full title:
God passed in ...
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According to Aquinas, does "love" towards something always bring "desire" towards that something?
St. Thomas Aquinas defines love (amor) as something that "belongs to the appetitive [spec., concupiscible] power which is a passive faculty" (Summa Theologica I-II q. 27 a. 1 c.).
"Love (amor) is ...
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Why is the Bible seemingly silent on the love which the God the Son has for God the Father?
John 14 (NIV) says this:
Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to
show yourself to us and not to the world?”
23 Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my ...
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Does the nature of God's love for us include what we humans would call "constant, strong, and genuine affection"? (Catholic)
The Catechism says
God's love for Israel is compared to a father's love for his son. His love for his people is stronger than a mother's for her children. God loves his people more than a ...
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What is the biblical basis for the belief that God loves individuals?
This seems, in some ways, a question of semantics - I mean, it's hard to know what you'd accept. I think inference is arguably a stronger basis for the Christian belief than this passage and I doubt ...
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According to Catholic doctrine, do our fallen, finite nature and our relationship with God set us up for abusive relationships in this life?
The Original Poster raises a number of related questions, which have to do with the nature of love and how that applies to human relationships (in particular when they are abusive).
From the outset, ...
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In Reformed theology, what exactly does the doctrine of "limited atonement" actually assert?
Your question is about the statement that "Christ did not die for everyone" in the typical Reformed doctrine of Particular Redemption. Although you list 5 complex points in 5 paragraphs, the ...
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Why does God not love Satan if He tell us to love our enemies to be as His Children (Luke 6:35-36)?
First, we need to put Jesus’ words into context.
In Matthew 5:38-42 Jesus reminds his audience of the Mosaic Law in Leviticus 19:18 to “love your neighbour as yourself”. It was the strict ...
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Did God change from a wrathful God to a loving God between Old Testament and New Testament?
Jesus' goal in the New Testament wasn't primarily to make His anger known, it was to reconcile people to God. Just because we don't see it, doesn't mean it's not there. God is angry about injustice, I'...
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What is the difference between "love" and "worship"? Do "love God" and "worship God" mean the same thing?
C.S. Lewis had trouble with the idea of praise and worship, as if God were continually seeking compliments from us. He warmed up to the idea slowly. See this:
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/...
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Are there philosophical explanations for why God would allow animals to suffer due to non-human causes?
Are there philosophical explanations for why God would allow animals to suffer due to non-human causes?
St. Thomas Aquinas has something to say about it!
The problem of animal suffering is the ...
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