Jews and Christians...Is the God of the Old Testament the same as the God of the New Testament?

Question

I was told the OT God is not the same as the NT God.

Answer 1

Yes! The God of the OT and NT are both one and the same God.



OT: "For I am the Lord, I do not change..." Malachi 3v6

NT: Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever" Hebrews 13v8



The Old Testament: the Jews were under the covenant of Law.

The New Testament: Gentiles are under the covenant of Grace BUT

does that mean we despise the Jews because they were under Law? NO!

Romans 11:18,20 "Do not boast against the branches....remember that you do not support the Root, but the Root supports you....Do not be haughty", Many christians have developed a "high-minded" attitude in thinking that God has changed because we're under Grace and not the Law so God is different now. This is wrong because God does not change, He is an unchanging God.



Rather He does not go from "Law" to "Grace", but maintains the Principles of Law and Grace in both covenants. God changed the covenant to a "...better covenant which was established on better promises" (Hebrews 8:6). The new covenant (NT) just has "better promises" than the Old. We do not despise the Jews because they were under "Law", the Jews being under Law are the Root that support us and as easily as God has grafted in the Gentiles, He can also easily cut off the Gentiles. God is unchanging, He is the same yesterday, today and forever.

Answer 2

Muslims Jews and Christians all believe in the Old Testament. The New Testament is where all three go their on way. Before Jesus many were in hell and our savior was born to pay for those sins or else all man kind would be damned for every man is/was a sinner. Proof of Gods Mercy!

Answer 3

The God of the Old Testament is the same as the New Testament.



The trinity crap is a doctrine of ignorance. There is one God just like the Old Testament declares, as well as Judaism. Jesus is not a God or the same being as God. Jesus is the second Adam, created with the seed of God " Holy Spirit". Holy Spirit is a descriptive name for God, because he is holy and made of spirit. It is also a gift from God to make a person a "son of God". Jesus was the only man born with Holy Spirit hence "only begotten son". The Christians are joint heirs with Christ, but revelations says we will cast our crowns at his feet and declare him our king. If Jesus was a God, he wouldn't share his rights with us, and wouldn't need our approval to be our king.



There is one God, (YHWH/yehovah/Jehovah[all means the same thing])/el.



The trinity is a remnant of paganism that has infected Christianity and caused erroneous belief since the early 300 a.d. At least. There was no trinity until 80 a.d. (Sources)

Answer 4

There is 1 God.

Answer 5

Yes, the jewish people live under one covenant and Christians live under another. Same God, diff covenants. Jesus did not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it. All true Christians are taught to love and respect the jewish people. They are God's chosen people and we are adopted sons and daughters. I fear for America if O turns his back on Israel.

Answer 6

Yes, He IS the same, only we Christians know that God is a Trinity, and that Jesus is God and part of the Trinity, but the Jews don't accept that, but yes, they are the same. Such as, Genesis says God created the Heavens and the earth, and John 1 says that Jesus created everything there is- NOTHING exists that Jesus didn't create. Then God said, Let US make man in OUR own image (the word God is translated from the word Elohim, meaning PLURAL, or Gods). Who was God talking to about creating man? He wasn't talking to the angels as they can NOT create anything, and since the Bible says that God created everything, including man, God was talking to Himself, or the other parts of the Trinity, made up of The Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. Since they were together LONG before the world was created, and they were alive during the New Testament, they HAD TO BE the same.

Answer 7

if you don't believe the jews are god's chosen people and the god is the same god then christianity has zero basis

Answer 8

Some people say that God is Jesus Christ in the New Testament, but the evidence shows otherwise:

Matt. 4:10: “Jesus said to him: ‘Go away, Satan! For it is written, “It is Jehovah [“the Lord,” KJ and others] your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service.”’” (Jesus was obviously not saying that he himself was to be worshiped.)

John 8:54: “Jesus answered [the Jews]: ‘If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father that glorifies me, he who you say is your God.’” (The Hebrew Scriptures clearly identify Jehovah as the God that the Jews professed to worship. Jesus said, not that he himself was Jehovah, but that Jehovah was his Father. Jesus here made it very clear that he and his Father were distinct individuals.)

Ps. 110:1: “The utterance of Jehovah to my [David’s] Lord is: ‘Sit at my right hand until I place your enemies as a stool for your feet.’” (At Matthew 22:41-45, Jesus explained that he himself was David’s “Lord,” referred to in this psalm. So Jesus is not Jehovah but is the one to whom Jehovah’s words were here directed.)

Phil. 2:9-11: “For this very reason also God exalted him [Jesus Christ] to a superior position and kindly gave him the name that is above every other name, so that in the name of Jesus every knee should bend of those in heaven and those on earth and those under the ground, and every tongue should openly acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. [Dy reads: “ . . . every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.” Kx and CC read similarly, but a footnote in Kx acknowledges: “ . . . the Greek is perhaps more naturally rendered ‘to the glory,’” and NAB and JB render it that way.]” (Notice that Jesus Christ is here shown to be different from God the Father and subject to Him.)

Answer 9

They seem to be describing the same God, in that the latter bases itself upon the former, but, as to whether one accepts that latter part is valid with respect to the first part (i.e., whether Christianity is valid when we read the Old Testament) is up for debate. I personally do not think that, when read in context of the Old Testament, the New Testament can, in any way, be valid. There are some heretical traditions within Christianity that rejects the Old Testament as being a description of a false God, an evil Demiurge, while Jesus revealed the True God.

Answer 10

This doesn't even make any sense

Answer 11

Yes, it is the same God and his name is Jehovah. He has not changed. His son is Jesus Christ.

Answer 12

Both the OT and NT are Christian scripture. The OT is a mistranslated, deliberately altered version of Jewish scripture. Jewish scripture is the Tanach.



So the question doesn't apply to us.

Answer 13

YES.



OT...(Daniel 2:44) “In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed. And this kingdom will not be passed on to any other people. It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it alone will stand forever,



NT...(Matthew 24:14) And this good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.



Same God, same Kingdom.

Answer 14

God is always the same. He said he was the same yesterday ( OT) today ( NT) and forever. He is ever lasting never ending .

Answer 15

I'm Catholic and yes it's the same God.