Doesn’t it seem a bit odd how the “God” of the Old Testament completely micro-managed the lives of the Hebrews with at least 613 laws, while the “God” of the New Testament suddenly decides from one moment to the next that people are mature enough to manage their own lives, thus condensing all the laws into one “the Golden Rule”. The funny thing is that nothing changed as far as the human condition and inclination to do the so-called “bad things” that the laws under the Old Covenant were supposed to keep them from doing.

Why did a person get stoned to death for picking up sticks on the Sabbath under the Old Covenant and suddenly after Jesus comes “God” says it’s okay to pick up sticks as long as no harm is done to another?  Following the same logic, Mary the mother of Jesus could have been stoned to death under “God’s” law for picking up sticks on the Sabbath while she was pregnant with Jesus, but after the crucifixion the Sabbath law no longer warranted the death penalty. Even the case of the woman caught in adultery which Jesus stopped; under the Old Covenant law given by “God” she should have been stoned. The same goes for every other person alive during that transitional time period, because the Jews were commanded to carry out the laws given them from “God” through Moses, if they didn’t carry out “Gods” laws they would have been punished, or killed accordingly. Over, and over again in the Old Testament we read of people being killed or punished for transgressions of the law, yet with the advent of the New Covenant everything changed in the twinkling of an eye.

I understand when a human ruler changes his mind because of new knowledge or a change of heart, but according to the Bible “God” is supposed to be all knowing and unchanging, so what’s up with that? Seems to me like another case of human invention, where earlier authors of Scripture said things that conflicted with how the later authors perceived “God” to be, so corrections were made to try and “fix” the problem without throwing out the earlier writings. In that manner a transition could be made correcting for errors in the perception of God, all the while keeping the original documents that were deemed to be “God given”…but, then we are stuck with a made-up, human invented “God”.

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