Our issues with the NT...CHR

[The Warren]

The OT is very orderly with a lot of rules and consequences for breaking them and God is very active in keeping the rules on earth. it is easier to understand than the NT. That makes sense to me.

The NT talks a lot about justice but in different ways like the beattitudes and how Jesus is kind the lowest people in society like lepers and heals people. Jesus intervenes and brings justice to people.

It's two different types of justice. In the OT God intervenes and punishes people or stops them from doing bad things. In the NT Jesus doesn't punish people, but he helps people. He helps all the people no one ever wants to help like sick people and poor people. That's justice too.

i don't think jesus says you got to be okay with people stealing things and being mean and hurting people on purpose. He also got so mad mad mad at the pharasees and saducees and other people for being mean and treating people very bad and not following their own rules or God's rules. God did have a lot of rules about being kind to others and not stealing or hurting people. Jesus does yell at people doing very bad things sometimes in the NT. Jesus sticks up for people who are hurting and shows people how not to be the same as their abusers.

Bad people like abusers do use the NT and Jesus and God and twist them to make it sound okay they can do bad things and hurt people. I know a lot of people who do struggle with NT and religion becos of this. I think Jesus would get very mad at that and yell at them if he saw that. I think God will judge them harshly. It is wrong to use God's word like this. Jesus did NEVER say it is okay to go around hurting people and taking their things! NEVER EVER! He got mad at people who were abusive. Abusers are like the pharasees and the saducees. They make up all their own rules that are not God's law.

The NT also has Revelation where God steps in again and gets rid of all the bad people and keeps the good ones and heals the earth but its also scary i don't really like the scary parts but I think in the end whatever that is God sorts it out. That is what the bigs say. God is the ultimate judge he will sort it out. Maybe not as fast as I want tho I have to say.

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