If you were to define being Christian by the actions described in the OT, you would be far from the truth. But yet the OT is a Christian scripture.
Even Jesus grew spiritually during His life. Originally reserving His ministry to the Jews. Later He expanded it.
Thus causing disputes between Peter and Paul.
One of my favorite movies if all time is Sargent York and the inner turmoil he experienced. I wrestle with this daily in rebuking darkness.
In the movie York killed a few, but captured without harming many German soldiers.
>>If you were to define being Christian by the actions described in the OT, you would be far from the truth. But yet the OT is a Christian scripture.<<
Which actions are you referring to? The ones the God-haters pretend are in the Old Testament?
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>>Even Jesus grew spiritually during His life. Originally reserving His ministry to the Jews. Later He expanded it.<<
Jesus grew spiritually? There is no evidence that Jesus believed anything other than incomprehensible love for the world and for mankind. He died to save the world (John 3:17).
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>>Thus causing disputes between Peter and Paul.<<
Jesus did not cause that. Peter’s “bitter-clinger” determination to adhere to the Law of Moses caused the dispute. Peter should have understood that the death of Christ (the husband) released Israel (the wife) from the Old Covenant (Rom 7:1-4).
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I don’t know if “growth” is what I would use. As he IS God and Torah made flesh....it was really more of a continuing and logarithmic expression and revelation of that “word made flesh” the longer he lived on this Earth. Thus being the open bodily revelation of the love of the Father...there would have come a point where if he didn’t die, the kingdoms of the Earth would have had to submit to the growing power and influence of God that was making himself manifest thru the son Christ Jesus. Yet the sin problem needed to be dealt with so Christ chose to sacrifice himself.
The spiritual law was that those who had sinned were forever damned unless their sin could be forgiven and only a man without sin could be sacrificed and his blood poured out so that we could be made acceptable to the Father.
Thus the victory of God and the wrath of Satan... oh he must have raged that God had cheated, had broken the rules as to how man should have been judged and then destroyed. Mankind of itself could not produce a substitute good enough so God in his love for us became a man thru his son Jesus but sinless in nature. The power of Christ’s innocent blood poured out was enough to spiritually cleanse all men who would confess and believe then being baptized in his name! This is the God “who knows that he is God” and the Christ who, before Abraham was....IS!