Question:
Why did God's objectives change from do what I say to just believe in me?
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2013-08-10 11:59:13 UTC
Genesis starts out with God giving a commandment to man. Later, God gives Moses the 10 Commandments.

Clearly, in the beginning God's objective was: "Do what I command you to do."

Later, God sends His Son, Jesus, to die for us using freewill against God's wishes and suddenly everything changes. Now it is no longer "Do what I command you to do," but "believe in me" and you will get into heaven.

Christians say that God changed his tune because God knew it was too hard for us to be perfect.

Atheists say that people were rebelling against the idea of gods so religions had to make it easier for people to receive their eternal reward.

So why do you think god's objectives changed.

Thank you for your answers.
Nine answers:
The Onigiri
2013-08-10 12:07:28 UTC
I don't get why God would even have to change. If the guy is perfect and all-knowing, why would he not foresee that we would be totally uncool with his commandments and make it that way in the beginning?



A perfect being doesn't need to change. So, either God has a serious self-esteem issue and changes his attitude at even the slightest provocation, or someone decided it would be easier to just have this vague sense of believing to get into heaven, as opposed to actually having to do stuff, and convinced themselves that's probably what God meant.
starterman
2013-08-10 12:08:42 UTC
First off, The Most High didn't, and doesn't change. Man got into scripture, and man changed it, Malachi clearly says "He changes not", and in describing The Messiah, it states He's the "same yesterday, today, and forever. So, I don't have to "think" about that, just dig deep to find truth. Your right about "objective", BUT He's not "subjective". Search out the definitions of the words you use.- - and read with a Hebrew mindset, not pagan greek!
Someone who cares
2013-08-10 12:08:42 UTC
They haven't changed, still the same. Belief alone is insufficient and Jesus said so...



Matthew 7:21

21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
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2013-08-10 12:01:12 UTC
His objectives have never changed. If you honestly think that, then you should study and learn the truth. His word does not change. John 14:15 IF YOU LOVE ME YOU WILL KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS
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2013-08-10 12:01:51 UTC
It changed when God decided that his Mercy and compassion was for everyone.
iwannareply
2013-08-10 12:02:33 UTC
Jesus said "If you love me you will keep my commandments"
Artemis
2013-08-10 12:00:10 UTC
All that was written by humans. Not god.
hasse_john
2013-08-10 12:01:23 UTC
They didn't. YAHUSHUA came to RENEW the covenant of life. Not to replace it. YAHUSHUA kept Torah, and His followers will also. Very few people follow Him. 'Christianity' is heathenism, and doesn't follow the Savior.
anonymous
2013-08-10 12:06:03 UTC
Jesus explicitly DENIES this.





Luke 6:46 "Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?



And a great writer made a wonderful explication of why people like you try to get others to not accept what Jesus said in Luke 6:46



Faith and Obedience - Newman Reader

http://www.newmanreader.org/works/parochial/volume3/sermon6.html





and this view of the subject was surely present to the minds of the inspired writers of Scripture—for this reason, because they use the two words, faith and obedience, indiscriminately, sometimes declaring we shall be accepted, saved, by believing, sometimes by doing our duty. And they so interchange these two conditions of God's favour, so quickly pass to and fro from the one view to the other, as to show that in truth the two do not differ, except in idea. If these apparently two conditions were merely connected, not substantially one, surely the inspired writers would compare them one with the other—surely they would be consistent in appropriating distinct offices to each. But, in very truth, from the beginning to the end of Scripture, the one voice of inspiration consistently maintains, not an uniform contrast between faith and obedience, but this one doctrine, that the only way of salvation open to us is the surrender of ourselves to our Maker in all things—supreme devotion, resignation of our will, the turning {83} with all our heart to God; and this state of mind is ascribed in Scripture sometimes to the believing, sometimes to the obedient, according to the particular passage; and it is no matter to which it is ascribed.



Now, I will cite some passages from Scripture in proof of what I have said. The Psalmist says, "Lord, who shall abide in Thy tabernacle? who I shall dwell in Thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart." "He that hath clean hands and a pure heart, who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity nor sworn deceitfully." [Ps. xv. 1, 2; xxiv. 4.] Here obedience is described as securing a man's salvation. But, in another Psalm, we read, "How great is Thy goodness which Thou hast laid up for them that fear Thee; which Thou hast wrought for them that trust in Thee!" [Ps. xxxi. 19; xxxiv. 12-14, 18, 22.] Here, trust or faith is the condition of God's favour. Again, in other Psalms, first, "What man is he that desireth life? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil and do good, seek peace and pursue it." ... Next, it is said, "The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart, and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit." Lastly, "None of them that trust in Him shall be desolate." Here, obedience, repentance, and faith, are successively mentioned as the means of obtaining God's favour; and why all of them, but because they are all names for one and the same substantial character, only viewed on different sides of it, that one character of mind which is pleasing and acceptable to Almighty God? Again, the prophet Isaiah says, "Thou {84} wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee, because he trusteth in Thee." [Isaiah xxvi. 2, 3.] Yet, in the preceding verse he had proclaimed, "Open ye the gates (of the heavenly city) that the righteous nation, which keepeth the Truth, may enter in." In like manner Solomon says, "By mercy and truth iniquity is purged:" Daniel, that "mercy to the poor" is a "breaking off of sin," and "an healing of error:" Nehemiah prays God to "remember him," and "not wipe out his good deeds for the House of his God;" yet Habakkuk says, the "just shall live by his faith." [Prov. xvi. 6. Dan. iv. 27. Neh. xiii. 14. Hab. ii. 4.]i


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