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To: HarleyD; stripes1776; Kolokotronis; jo kus; Cronos

If a person has difficulties in reconciling the God of the Old Testament with the God of the New, it suggests to me there is some fundamental error in their theology

You are correct, paradoxically, I might add. The New Covenant theology based on God's awesome revelation – that He is Trinity, a perfect Love between three Hypostases in one Essence #150; is a different theology altogether from the one based on the Old Covenant!

But, as stripes1776 observes, the OT God is a shadow of God's full revelation in Christ, and the OT it thereby not a witness but a messanger of the coming Messiah.

3,412 posted on 03/09/2006 8:16:49 PM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)

To: kosta50; stripes1776; Kolokotronis; jo kus; Cronos

"...and the OT it thereby not a witness but a messanger of the coming Messiah."

Yes, I would agree. The OT point to things that were to come.

3,423 posted on 03/10/2006 5:13:28 AM PST by HarleyD ("A man's steps are from the Lord, How then can man understand his way?" Prov 20:24 (HNV))

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