An atheist view of two gods...

I have been pondering the statement that an Atheist posted awhile back, and that is the charge that they see two diff. Gods in the bible, one in the Old Test. and one in the New Test.

I would like to share my thoughts on this, and hear others views...

on this.

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All I can think of for now, is the fact that God in the Old Test. was sorry that he had made man, at one point, because of the sinfulness that was constant. He dealt with man in one way, in the Old Test. and when he brought the new covenant into place, by sending Jesus to fulfill the righteous requirement of his own law, man was returned to the one thing that God asked from him in the beginning, and that was a law or a command, obviously one that man did not, could not, or would not obey.

After this one command was breached, 512 (I believe it was ) laws followed this, to the point that no one could move hardly without breaking one of the laws, and even if they could, it still did not make their heart any better, so, God fulfilled his own requirement, so that we could go free.

That does not mean that we are free to do whatever we choose, the scripture actually says, God forbid , on that one. What it does mean is that we have freedom in Christ, and he comes to live within our hearts, and spirits, and his love works in and thru and around us, causing us to want to do what is right, rather than having to.

Anytime you tell someone they have to do something, it sparks rebellion in their hearts and minds, for no one wants to be told what to do. With Jesus love working in us, we choose to obey, because of what he has done for us.

How can you truly do something that is wrong, toward someone who has been so good to you?

G-d of the old and new testament are the same, however the G-d of the old testament was very strict on his laws. My interpretation of this is because in the old testament the bloodlines were VERY important for the prophecies to be fulfilled. The G-d in the old testament was very particular of who was to live and who was to die mainly because he could see into the hearts of some and realize that:
A: It could compromise future bloodlines therefore Yeshua would not have been fulfilled the bloodline that G-d has set.
B: Some who were killed would later grow to inherit what was to go to Israel.
C: Some were killed because they would later up rise against Israel.
But there were also times when G-d allowed the prisoners to be taken and implemented into their society. But that was only because he knew that they could conform to the laws of G-d.
In the New Testament though those laws were fulfilled which is where we get the forgiving G-d.

The flood was made because there were very few who followed G-d. The reason he said a lot of what he did to Noah was in my opinion to motivate them to be better followers. The same reason our parents would become disappointed with us, it motivates us to please them better.

These are open for discussion and are merely an interpretation on my part. Its great that these are open discussions that are of little consequence to our future. We don't have to understand every aspect of G-d because we are forgiven. The important parts were written and red and white. G-d bless.

Thank you tseirpeht for your answer, and I would like to add that I believe the flood came also to destroy the Nephilm, which was a race of giants that came from the fallen angels mixing with the daughters of men, that polluted the bloodline,

All I can think of for now, is the fact that God in the Old Test. was sorry that he had made man, at one point, because of the sinfulness that was constant.

But if God is omnipotent, he must've seen what's coming - so why would he do something he would later be sorry for?

The god in the OT is different from the god in the NT, because the culture had evolved and their concept of god changed.

It's trivially easy to understand the Bible once you quit trying to pretend that a god had something to do with writing it.

The difference lies in the different authors of the different books of the bible. The bible is the word of man, not of God. The translations we now have are so far off the original that all meaning has been lost.

I'm not atheist.

God was sorry? arent you trying to attribute a human failing to God? wouldnt it make more sense that the people writing these things were wrong?