The blessings listed in Leviticus ch.26 all came true (Joshua ch.24). God gave prophecy to the prophets and performed wonders for them.
Blessings for the faithful...
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God does not need or seek to "punish" us. Human guilt when we hurt someone is enough self-inflicted punishment! Instead of punishing, God has mercy and compassion, even when we "sin". Remember, The Old Testament is a story of a wrathful, revengeful God. But The New Testament is the story of God the Father's unending love, a love so strong that he sent his son, Jesus Christ, to show us the way to God's mercy and forgiveness.
God's love runs throughout The Bible. The word Love appears in the Old Testament 131 times and the New Testament 179 times.
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Many Gnostics saw the God of the Old Testament as an angry and capricious god, who demanded sacrifices, encouraged genocide and was vain, in that he demanded constant worship. They could not imagine that the God of the Old Testament could be the same god as the loving god of the New Testament. Because they could not see the Old Testament God and the New Testament God to be the same, they decided that the Old Testament God was a lesser god, who was not even aware of the New Testament God in the higher heavens. Thus, he believed himself to be the only God and the Lord of creation, but there was (in Gnostic view) a higher God. To many, it was not so much that the Old Testament God was evil, it was that he was wholly ignorant.
The difference of the sons of god , in the two testaments are that in the old testament Jesus is the son of god. But in the New Testament we to can be the sons of god . If only we do believe that Jesus died for our sins.
God's "Reaching out" was the sending of his son in human form to share human life and show us how life should be lived. This was foretold in the Old Testament. I have made a link below which will detail where in the Old Testament God's "reaching out" is foretold.
This is not an entirely accurate statement of the Gnostic Christian belief about the nature of God. They could not believe that the harsh and unjust God of the Old Testament was the same as the loving and forgiving God of the New Testament, so they believed there must be two gods. The God of the Old Testament became the Demiurge, while the supreme God is the God of the New Testament. Thus, God of the New Testament is good and the Demiurge, the God of the Old Testament, is the bad God.
The four main themes of the Old Testament are the covenant between God and humanity, the relationship between God and Israel, the promise of a Messiah, and the establishment of God's kingdom on earth. These themes are woven throughout the various books and stories of the Old Testament.
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One purpose of Old Testament prophecy was to foretell the arrival of the Messiah or Redeemer. A second purpose was to show the rewards for those who obeyed God's laws. At the same time, it was to show the punishments of the disobedient.
God's love runs throughout The Bible. The word Love appears in the Old Testament 131 times and the New Testament 179 times.